About Us:

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organisations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

About The Role:

Notion is looking for an experienced and practical employment attorney to join its Legal team. As Employment Counsel, you will partner closely with the People Team to provide day-to-day legal advice, support people programs, and drive our strategic approach to legal compliance for a global employee population. You will be the primary driver of the Employment Legal team's work in EMEA, as well as manage global initiatives.

What You'll Achieve:

Partner with Notion’s global People team - with a heightened focus on EMEA - to provide day-to-day and strategic advice on a range of employment issues including recruiting and hiring, worker classification, compensation and benefits, people policies and programs, employee relations, data privacy, and HR best practices
Advise during and guide outcomes for employee relations matters, including investigations, leaves and accommodations, performance management, and terminations; manage employment-related disputes and litigation; support non-employment related disputes and litigation
Draft, revise, and update global employment and benefits documentation and agreements
Identify and operationalize compliance-based requirements and build scalable policies, playbooks, templates, and tools in collaboration with partner teams
Highlight and drive practical solutions to existing and evolving employment law requirements and potential legal risks to the business
Collaborate with other cross functional teams including legal, stock administration, payroll, accounting, procurement, revenue operations, security, and communications

Skills You'll Need to Bring:

Irish qualified solicitor, with 8+ years of combined experience practicing employment law at a law firm and in-house
Significant experience counseling on the full spectrum employment law issues, including recruiting and hiring, worker classification, compensation and benefits, people policies and programs, employee relations, and HR best practices
Deep subject matter expertise in Irish employment law and experience advising on employment matters across Europe, with a sense of practical application of the law
Data privacy expertise and experience advising on employment-related data privacy matters
Ability to draft and review approachable and scalable global employment documentation, including agreements, policies, and handbooks
Demonstrated interest in artificial intelligence solutions in a work setting
Excellent drafting, written and verbal communication skills and ability to provide pragmatic, creative, and fast-paced guidance in ambiguous scenarios
Resilience, resourcefulness, and the ability to develop trusted relationships and work highly cross-functionally

Nice to Haves:

Prior experience with fast growing technology companies, either as outside counsel or in house
Experience with international expansion
Experience supporting employment and benefits M&A workstreams
Enjoy working across multiple time zones and cultures
Familiarity with Notion

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, colour, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

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Employment Counsel, EMEA

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