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Reporting to the Senior Director, Employment Counsel, this role provides practical, risk-based advice on global employment matters. The role primarily supports EMEA and APJ, with opportunities to partner on matters in other regions and global projects.
What You’ll Do- Provide day-to-day legal counseling to HR, management, and other stakeholders on global employment matters, including hiring, classification, accommodations, leaves, discipline, and terminations.
- Draft, review, and negotiate employment-related agreements and documents, including offer terms, separation and settlement agreements, and policies/templates. Develop templates and guides.
- Manage employment-related claims, charges, and litigation (including pre-litigation demands), setting strategy and partnering with internal stakeholders; supervise outside counsel through resolution.
- Partner with HR and business leaders to support employee relations matters and workplace investigations, including advising on process, privilege, findings, and recommended corrective actions.
- Manage outside counsel on immigration matters.
- Law degree
- Proficient level of English
- 7+ years of relevant employment law experience, either in-house and/or at a law firm, with exposure to multi-jurisdictional or global employment issues strongly preferred.
- Strong legal judgment and ability to own projects without supervision and ccommunicate complex issues clearly and pragmatically to non-lawyers; proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment with strong organizational skills; proficiency with Microsoft 365 tools and matter/document management systems a plus.
- EMEA exposure
- Active bar membership in any jurisdiction
- In house experience
- 25 vacation days, 4 sick days, 21 paid medical leave days, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
- Premium private medical insurance for employees and dependents
- Daily meal vouchers for restaurants and groceries (180 CZK per working day)
- Flexible cafeteria platform with thousands of lifestyle benefit options
- Multisport Card for gym and wellness, with family add-on options
- Annual public transport reimbursement up to a set limit
- Corporate mobile plan with optional family tariff
- Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning
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Skills Required
- Law degree and active bar membership
- 7+ years of relevant employment law experience
- Proficient level of English
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment
What We Do
Veeam provides a single platform for modernizing backup, accelerating hybrid cloud and securing data. Veeam has 400,000+ customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 69% of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s 100% channel ecosystem includes global partners, as well as HPE, NetApp, Cisco and Lenovo as exclusive resellers, and boasts more than 35K transacting partners worldwide.
