Managing Counsel, Product (Payroll experience required)

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ 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 (This is an Individual Contributor 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 Payroll, Product, Engineering, Privacy, and Security, with emphasis on payroll and AI/ML features, translating complex rules into clear, shippable requirements and striking the right balance between compliance and commerciality.

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 proven expertise in HR tech (Payroll/PEO/EOR) and track record advising at scale across multiple jurisdictions.

Deep expertise in AI frameworks (EU AI Act, UK approach, U.S. state/federal developments, Canada AIDA) and their interplay with data protection (GDPR/CCPA), employment law, and payroll compliance across jurisdictions

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 organizational skills

Language: Writes and speaks fluent English

Tools: Tech-savvy with Claude, Slack, Notion, Google Drive, or equivalent

Key Responsibilities

Legal Expertise

Collaborate with the team on payroll and AI product counseling end-to-end, including payroll launch readiness assessment, AI impact assessments, model cards, and risk controls with Privacy/Security.

Collaborate with Commercial Legal on product T&Cs and AI-specific clauses as required for payroll features (training/usage of data & metadata, output/IP ownership, acceptable use, transparency.

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, particularly in HR tech or payroll contexts

Shipped at least one AI feature in production and built the accompanying legal/governance framework

Deep payroll compliance knowledge across multiple jurisdictions

Experience working remotely

Practical