Director, Senior Employment Counsel (Global)

The role

You will provide expert counsel on employment law matters across multiple regions. You will partner with internal stakeholders to ensure compliance, mitigate risk, and support business aspects including employee issues and drafting offer documentation.

What you will do

• Provide expert counsel on employment law matters across multiple regions.
• Serve as a partner to the People Team and business leaders on employee relations and risk mitigation.
• Support Talent and Compensation teams in creation of employment documentation.
• Support employment litigation and dispute resolution and manage outside counsel.
• Provide practical legal guidance across multiple jurisdictions.
• Develop and update region-specific policies, handbooks, contracts, and procedures.
• Advise on strategic workforce planning, organizational design, restructuring, and M&A activity.
• Advise on works councils, unions and CBAs across the regions.
• Monitor and communicate regional legal developments and adjust policies.

Required qualifications

• Law degree with admission to practice in at least one jurisdiction
• Minimum 14 years of progressive experience in global employment law
• Proven success advising on complex, cross-border employment issues in a global, matrixed environment
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Strategic thinker with hands-on execution capability and deep understanding of risk management
• Excellent negotiation skills and resilience
• Fluency in English
• Professional proficiency in Spanish

Nice to have

• Fluency in Spanish
• Additional languages
• Prior in-house and M&A experience
• Experience in the technology and/or games industry

Benefits

• Relocation available

Before you apply

• Please ensure that the résumé/CV you attach is written in English.

About the company

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company. It creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates a diversified portfolio in the games industry.