Managing Counsel, Product

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organisations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future-focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role. We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global HR-tech space as a Managing Counsel, Product (Please note, this is not a People Manager role). We are looking for a talented and eager lawyer, who is interested in helping with our team’s mission, namely: to deliver pragmatic and innovative legal solutions for Remote’s products and stakeholders, while protecting Remote from unacceptable risk. Remote’s well-established Legal team is a bunch of friendly, talented highly motivated lawyers from a whole host of different countries, with some awesome experiences. As Remote grows and adds new products, the volume and complexity of issues scale across 90+ jurisdictions. You will be a legal partner to Product, Engineering, Privacy, and Security, with emphasis on HRIS and AI/ML features, translating complex rules into clear, shippable requirements and striking the right balance between compliance and commerciality.

More specifically, this role is expected to:

• Lead AI and HRIS product compliance, partnering with Product, Engineering, Security and the Privacy team;
• Embed a risk-based legal review into product development workflows;
• Own product T&Cs for HRIS and AI features (output ownership, training use, acceptable use, transparency/disclaimers);
• Stand up core Product AI governance (model inventory, risk classification, human oversight, bias/testing, incident response alignment).

What you bring

• Qualified Lawyer: Seasoned lawyer with extensive experience on Product counseling (jurisdiction agnostic; multiple bars a plus)
• Product Counsel: Experience in technology, with prior HR-tech exposure (EOR/PEO/HRIS/Payroll) advising at scale across multiple jurisdictions.
• Strong command of emerging AI frameworks: (e.g., EU AI Act, UK approach, U.S. state/federal developments, Canada AIDA) and their interplay with data protection (GDPR/CCPA) and employment transparency rules.
• In-house Experience: Bonus - In-house legal experience preferred.
• Startup Experience: Bonus - Experience in fast-paced start-up.
• Tech Passion: Passionate about tech and HR tech products.
• Skills: Excellent analytical and organisational skills.
• Language: Writes and speaks fluent English.
• Tools: Tech-savvy with Slack, Juro, Notion, Google Drive, or equivalent.
• It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus.

Key Responsibilities

• Legal Expertise: Own HRIS and AI product counseling end-to-end, including AI impact assessments, model cards, and risk controls with Privacy/Security. Draft and negotiate product terms, and AI-specific clauses as required (training/usage of data & metadata, output/IP ownership, acceptable use, transparency), in collaboration with Commercial Legal team. Proactively monitor new AI and tech regulations and translate those into concrete, actionable steps for product, design and engineering teams. Manage external counsel on complex, multi-jurisdictional issues; drive clear, practical outcomes. Deliver targeted enablement (Trainings or office hours). Partner with Privacy & Security on DPIAs/TIAs, incident response, and vendor/LLM diligence.
• Complex Matters: Figures out solutions rather than just escalating problems.

Bonus Points

• Experience working with AI/ML legal and compliance issues.
• Shipped at least one AI feature in production and built the accompanying legal/governance framework.
• Experience working remotely.

Practicals

• You'll report to: Managing Counsel, Commercial & Product Team: Legal
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

• Interview with recruiter
• Interview with future manager
• Written Exercise
• Interview with Senior Director and team member
• Bar Raiser Interview
• Prior employment verification check

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs. If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

Please fill out the form below and upload your CV in PDF format. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote. If you don’t have an up-to-date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritising human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.