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Senior Employment Counsel, EMEA
12 months ago
The opportunity
Unity is looking for its first EMEA-dedicated Employment Counsel, within the Corporate Legal team, to provide regional support and advice to our growing workforce. In this role, you will report to the Sr. Director of Employment, ER, and Compliance. You will work cross-functionally with the global People team and business leaders to advise on all legal aspects of the employee lifecycle while also creating scalable employment policies, processes, templates, and trainings. We are looking for a strategic thinker who understands the business implications of legal decisions, and is able to autonomously prioritise multiple tasks in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. We are looking for a UK qualified lawyer who has additional experience advising on employment issues across EMEA.
What you'll be doing
- Day-to-day advice and counseling on a range of employment law issues, including recruiting, hiring, compensation and benefits, termination, diversity and inclusion, Employee Relations investigations, employee privacy, contingent workforce, works councils, and litigation
- Work with local HR partners and local counsel to draft and review global EMEA-related agreements, letters, policies, and templates
- Collaborate with Unity’s US-based Senior Employment Counsel to develop and refine scalable employment processes, policies, trainings, and business strategies that balance business need with risk mitigation
- Partner with our People Analytics team to ensure Unity’s compliance with local reporting regulations
- Work with senior business partners and outside counsel on litigation and special projects including M&A, location and entity evaluations, workforce management, and re-orgs
What we're looking for
- A qualified UK attorney, specialising in employment law, with experience advising on employment law matters across EMEA
- Ability to draft documents, policies, and messages in a clear, concise, and digestible manner for business partners
- Comfort autonomously prioritising deliverables in a fast paced, constantly changing environment
- High level of comfort working with technology, such as Google Drive, Box, Excel, Powerpoint, Google Docs, Slack, etc.
- May require some travel
You might also have
- Prior in-house experience working with a high-tech company
Life at Unity
Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity is the foundation upon which the world’s most powerful digital content is created. Specifically, Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.
In the fourth quarter of 2022, more than 70% of the top 1000 mobile games were made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1000 games in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. In 2022, Made with Unity Applications had more than 4 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com .
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