Director and Senior Managing Counsel

Right now, the best jobs are limited to people in a handful of the world’s wealthiest cities, yet brilliant people are everywhere. Driven to overturn the status quo and distribute opportunities equally around the world, Oyster launched its global employment platform to help companies hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere.

When it comes to global employment, we walk the walk. We’re proof that companies don't need an office to create a highly-engaged culture. Since the company’s inception in January 2020, Oyster has:

• Created a fully-distributed, vibrant team of 500+ employees across 60+ countries
• Established a diverse leadership team and an employee base that’s 60% female
• Achieved one of the highest employee engagement scores in its class
• Raised $286 million to date, with a current valuation of $1.2 billion
• B Corp status achieved in 2023

Our momentum speaks to the power of global employment—and we’re just getting started If you want to change the world with Oyster and be empowered to work remotely while doing so, we’d love for you to apply

Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote, and you can work from home. Forever. To create the best experience for our new hire (you?), this role does require that you are an EU citizen and based within +1 / +3 UTC.

Oyster is looking for an experienced attorney to lead our corporate legal team in support of Oyster’s goal to become the world leader in global distributed working. In addition to corporate compliance work, the successful candidate will provide support to the Corporate Secretary, serve as a Director on our foreign-subsidiary boards, as well as support any corporate transactions. The successful candidate will lead a team of governance, risk, and compliance specialists and work with partners across the organization (both within and outside of Legal) to make sure reasonable and appropriate measures are in place to maintain governance, ethical and compliant business operations, and provide risk guidance and recommendations to Executive Team Members on compliance issues. Reporting to the General Counsel, your responsibilities will include some of the following:

• Day-to-Day Management of Oyster’s corporate governance program, including management of the entity management team and serving as a Director for Oyster subsidiaries.
• Day-to-day management of Oyster’s compliance program, including management of the risk and compliance teams.
• Provide responsive and pragmatic legal advice to carry out the company's business and protect the company's interests and rights.
• Development and implementation of company policies in collaboration with other Oyster teams.
• Responsible for Oyster’s SOC I/II and BCorp compliance efforts, which include ongoing monitoring of control environments, evolving reporting, and oversight to match organizational expansion.
• Create and manage effective action plans in response to audit discoveries and compliance violations.
• Identify risks and causes of main legal contingencies or exposures and work cross-functionally to mitigate same.
• Evaluate changes in legislation and jurisprudence that might impact business and work cross-functionally to ensure compliance with the same.
• Analytics experience and ability to incorporate compliance monitoring in existing business processes.
• Respond to requests for information related to Oyster’s regulatory and compliance obligations.
• Other duties as assigned.

• EU Citizenship is mandatory.
• Juris Doctorate or LLM, or like qualification.
• 7+ years of legal experience, with 5+ years in an in-house counsel role, preferably at a publicly traded company.
• 2+ years of people management experience.
• Prior experience in a multinational company or dealing with cross-border legal issues.
• Prior experience managing corporate subsidiaries and/or acting as corporate secretary or subsidiary director.
• Experience building relationships across the organization and managing the full cycle of compliance projects, including obtaining key stakeholder buy-in.
• A strong communicator who works for not only their own success but the success of the team.
• Demonstrates the ability to learn new things, work on a variety of issues, and work under pressure in order to add value to the company.
• Highly organized, proactive, and uses independent judgment.
• Be competent. Be unquestionably ethical. Have humility and a sense of humor. Work hard and help others. Celebrate wins.
• Experience with remote work.
• [BONUS] Prior experience working with EOR, fintech, or SaaS companies.
• [BONUS] Familiarity with Notion and Asana, Project Management Principles, Audit or compliance certifications.

You'll also need

• A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one).

Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes us special. We elevate talent. We build trust. We thrive together.

Our mission is to create a more equal world—one global hire at a time. Everything we do ladders up to our mission—and that doesn’t just mean building software. We develop programs, participate in workshops, and create dedicated teams to ensure we successfully support companies and knowledge workers in this new world of work.

We embrace asynchronous communication and collaborative work—and we share how we work in the Oyster Public HQ —to help other global teams learn from our experiences.

Different countries have different statutory benefits, different cultures have different norms, and different people have different needs In order to best support and encourage our diverse team, we’ve created How YOU Work; a program of policies, practices, and perks to support your whole human experience as an employee at Oyster.

• Work from anywhere: Oyster is a borderless, HQ-less company. As long as your work gets done on time, your team has the support they need, and you're authorized to work where you live, the world is truly your Oyster.
• Paid time off: We’re all about taking breaks—we all need it. Oyster provides employees with 40 days off each year, which includes public/bank holidays and vacation/holiday leave (unless your country mandates more).
• Mental health support: We consider your mental health a top priority. We offer access to Plumm, a mental well-being service, to support your mental health.
• Wellbeing allowance: Each month, Oyster will top up your ThanksBen wallet with a wellbeing allowance. You can get pretty much anything that your heart desires ThanksBen offers a wide array of options for spending your wellbeing allowance.
• Flexible parental leave: Families are created in lots of different ways. Our parental leave policy applies to all employees who are becoming parents, regardless of how they become a parent. Oysters are eligible for a minimum of three months of paid parental leave and your job will be held for 12 months (or longer if required by local jurisdiction).
• WFH stipend: Stipend to spend on your laptop and any other equipment you need for your home office; we'll get you up and running in no time

At Oyster, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences and we’ve intentionally built our product and our company with an inclusive, global mindset. We know from experience that people from underrepresented groups often don’t apply for roles they don’t feel they meet all the criteria for. We’re committed to elevating talent by creating a trust-based environment where we can all thrive together. So if you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily check every single box, please consider applying. We’d love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team.

Oyster is committed to ensuring equal opportunity of employment for qualified persons with disabilities and actively fosters an inclusive work environment. If you require reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process, please email jobs@oysterhr.com with the subject line: Interview Accommodations.

Our available positions are published on our careers page and should you be invited to interview with us, our recruitment team will only ever contact you directly from an @oysterhr.com email address. We will never ask you to send us money as part of a job offer. If you receive a suspicious email relating to opportunities at Oyster from any other email domain where someone is claiming to be a part of our recruitment team, or are directed to anywhere other than www.oysterhr.com/careers to view our available jobs we encourage you to submit a report through our Compliance and Ethics Helpline.

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