Right now, the best jobs are limited to people in a handful of the world’s wealthiest cities, yet brilliant people are . 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
👩💻Featured in Forbes having ranked #9 in Flexjobs Top 30 Companies for remote jobs
🌈 Established a diverse leadership team and an employee base that’s 60% female
🏆 Achieved one of the highest employee engagement scores in its class
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Our momentum speaks to the power of global employment—and we’re just getting started! If you want to change the world with Oyster be empowered to work remotely while doing so, we’d love for you to apply!
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 be based within UTC +2 to UTC -4.
Oyster is growing fast, and its Legal team needs help! We are looking for a high-performing Legal Specialist to join our team who can assist in keeping up with the demands of a growing global HR/tech company. In this role, you will be working with members of the Legal Team’s Employment Pod, primarily handling all things related to the creation and maintenance of employment templates as well as employment compliance, which will require critical thinking, innovation, and integrity. You will also work cross-functionally on projects to help Oyster reach its goals.
Being a fully distributed company, the Legal Specialist will work synchronously and asynchronously with team members all over the world. We are looking for someone with wonderful attention to detail, strong multi-task skills, high energy, a positive attitude, and no camera shyness.
Reporting to the Managing Counsel of the Employment Standards team, the Legal Specialist will be tasked with:
- Contributing to processes for maintaining compliant employment-related templates and policies and assisting the Legal staff members in this process.
- Tracking compliance requirements and assisting Legal staff members and other relevant stakeholders in finding appropriate solutions.
- Assisting Legal staff members in developing knowledge materials and supporting cross-functional stakeholders to promote knowledge transfer.
- Collaborating with internal stakeholders to ensure finalized documents are available for use, including being automated in Oyster’s contract management system.
- Creating and maintaining legal team projects in Asana and other platforms.
- Supporting employee relations escalations received via Oyster’s intake system, Zendesk, which will include responsibilities such as:
- Assigning escalations to the appropriate Legal team member within the Employment Pod for handling based on internal guidance.
- Working with our analytics team to support Zendesk data reporting.
- Assisting with improving processes, sharing best practices, and increasing efficiency in the Legal department's operations, systems, and technology.
- Working cross-functionally to fulfill Oyster's Mission and Vision.
- Build and maintain solid relationships within the Legal department and with cross-functional departments.
We are looking for someone who is bright, dynamic, and driven. The successful candidate will be able to handle any responsibility assigned and can work independently but is also not afraid to ask for help.
- 1-2 years of experience as a paralegal, legal assistant, or in a corporate or HR environment.
- Bachelor's Degree (or its equivalent).
- Knowledge and experience with human resources, employment law and/or compliance-related matters.
- Organized and detail-oriented, with excellent communication skills.
- Ability to work in a dynamic, high-output environment.
- Proactive and uses independent judgment.
- Demonstrates zeal for solving problems and adding value to the company.
- Establishes priorities amongst the team by speaking up and setting actionable project management objectives.
- Be competent. Be unquestionably ethical. Have humility. Work hard. Celebrate wins. Be a team player.
- [BONUS] Experience working with Product teams on automation.
- [BONUS] Prior experience in a corporate/employment legal department.
- [BONUS] Experience with tech start-ups.
- [BONUS] Working in Notion and Asana.
- [BONUS] Experience with remote work.
- [BONUS] Proficient in Google Suite of products (Gmail, Google Doc, Google Sheets).
- [BONUS] Experience with a client relationship management system or other intake systems (Zendesk, Salesforce, ServiceNow).
- A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one).
- Fluent English language skills.
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.
- 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.
- 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).
- We consider your mental health a top priority. We offer access to Plumm, a mental well-being service, to support your mental health.
- 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. Check out their benefits catalogue here for inspiration.
- Families are created in lots of different ways. Our parental leave policy applies to all employees who are becoming parents, regardless of 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).
- $3000 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 [email protected] 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. 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.
What We Do
Our mission is to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. We believe it should be easy for any company to hire any person, no matter where either is located in the world.
Now more than ever, smart companies can't allow the location of their HQ to dictate the size of their talent pool. Your next transformative hire could be anywhere.
We also believe the most in-demand knowledge workers today want to leverage a global career perspective, the freedom to live where they want, and the security of full-fledged employment with benefits.
But today, the flow between talent and opportunity around the globe is still blocked by the costs and legal complexity companies face before they can fully employ in another country. Cross-border hiring is still arcane, remarkably un-transformed by software, and ripe for disruption.
We are also motivated by the opportunity for positive social impact. Removing these barriers makes the world a better place in three ways: 1) It helps redress inequalities of access to opportunity, 2) It allows for the distribution of wealth to places other than the major cities of the world, and 3) It supports the environmentally-friendly and business-smart shift to remote working.
Our software platform is created to solve for the complexities of giving full-time, full-fledged employment to anyone in the world, while providing a delightful experience to employers and employees.
With Oyster, you can hire remote full-time employees anywhere in the world, provide fully-compliant payroll, and give your valued remote hires around the world the benefits and perks they deserve.
Oyster has Pending B Corporation status. Read our social impact thesis: https://www.oysterhr.com/impact-thesis
