Employment Counsel - EU Headquarters

This position is based in our EU Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland or London, UK.

The area: Legal

Google Legal is a close-knit team of lawyers and legal professionals who operate on a truly global stage. We take pride in working for a company with a clear mission ("to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful") and a real soul ("don't be evil"). Google's innovative services raise challenging legal questions that demand creative and practical answers. We work at the crossroads of new technologies and existing laws to provide those answers, helping Google build innovative and important products for our users around the world. If this sounds like your kind of place, it probably is.

The role: Employment Counsel

As Employment Counsel, your primary responsibility will be advising on the EMEA employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions and commercial agreements. In addition where you have capacity you will pitch in with the rest of the Employment team in giving general counsel advice designed to ensure consistency and compliance with employment law, regulations and practice across Google's offices in EMEA. You should be capable of producing high quality work in a flexible, fast paced environment and have the ability to work for clients located across the region and in the US and cross-functional teams. You should be able to advise upon and implement a best practice approach to employment and HR issues, whilst at the same time recognising the flexible, innovative place that Google strives to be.

Responsibilities:

• Advise on employment legal issues and risks in relation to mergers and acquisitions including integration planning and employee transition arrangements.
• Answer a variety of commercial requests from Legal and other business clients on employment issues connected with commercial agreements and outsourcing arrangements that comply with company policies and local law.
• Develop and maintain localised precedent documents in relation to EMEA mergers and acquisitions and commercial agreements and outsourcing arrangements.
• Provide training to Legal and other business clients on employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions and commercial agreements and outsourcing arrangements.
• Advise on the application of Google HR, Benefits and recruitment policies across the EMEA region and provide general counsel advice on employment issues arising during recruitment, employment and on termination.

Requirements:

• BA/BSc degree or local equivalent preferred
• Qualified lawyer with law firm experience in the UK, Ireland or Germany or with an in-house team at a leading organisation
• Experience in working with clients on high-value, multi-jurisdictional M&A and commercial transactions and influencing decision makers.
• Extensive knowledge of employment law and practice (including experience with works councils, Acquired Rights Directive and contingent worker issues) in at least one European jurisdiction.
• Experience in advising and implementing HR/employment policies in a number of European countries strongly preferred.
• Experience of data protection and intellectual property ownership issues in the employment context.
• Excellent written and oral skills in English. Another European language strongly preferred.

Employment Counsel - EU Headquarters