Nscale
Legal Counsel, Employment
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About the Role
We are seeking a Legal Counsel, Employment (UK & EMEA)—a strategic partner at the nexus of legal risk, employee experience, and transformational change for Nscale’s EMEA region. Reporting to the Senior Director, Employment, you’ll advise on compliant, pragmatic employment frameworks, collaborating with cross-functional teams (People, Legal, Compliance, and senior business leaders) to influence high-impact decisions.
This pivotal role sits beside growth, transition, and digital transformation—guiding Nscale through cross-jurisdictional complexities with a risk-minded yet solutions-oriented approach.
What You’ll Do
Employment Advisory Across the Full Lifecycle
- Advise on hiring workflows, contracting, contractor classifications, performance management, restructures, and exits across UK and EMEA jurisdictions.
- Deliver clear, pragmatic employment law insights to daily employee matters while mitigating left-field risks.
- Partner with business leaders and the People team to ground decision-making in compliant regional and EU legislation.
Disputes & Employee Relations
- Manage pre-litigation and employment tribunal claims (including ACAS Early Conciliation and settlement negotiations).
- Steer conduct, disciplinary, grievance, and performance-related matters.
- Work with Compliance & Ethics to investigate and remediate high-stakes employee relations issues, ensuring procedural fairness.
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Policies, Frameworks & Compliance
- Draft and update legal templates (contracts, procedures) and cross-jurisdictional policies.
- Monitor regulatory shifts (e.g., GDPR, national employment acts) and align internal practices accordingly.
- Lead initiatives to embed compliant protocols during corporate growth, restructuring, or cross-border projects.
Projects, Transactions & Investigations
- Assist in TUPE due diligence, integrations, business reorgs, and corporate due diligence.
- Collaborate with People Operations and Compliance in fair investigations, especially around workplace misconduct.
Enablement & Stakeholder Training
- Design training modules on best-practice employment law for managers, People teams, and operational leaders.
- Turn Legal’s findings into actionable guidance to boost stakeholder confidence while minimizing risk.
- Foster alignment between Legal, People, and Compliance to safeguard consistent—and progressive—EMEA employment standards.
About You
- 5+ years of UK-focused employment law experience, with broad EMEA jurisdiction exposure (particularly Germany, France, Ireland, Benelux, or Iberia).
- Qualified English & Wales solicitor (in good standing) with:
- Deep fluency in Employment Rights Act, Equality Act, Working Time Regulations, and TUPE.
- Proven track record advising on investigations, performance, discipline, and grievances.
- A knack for blending legal eloquence with commercial pragmatism—translating complex n novoeevateour'Italie akcödatenfonst g negotiators with intuitive solutions.
- Exceptional drafting, fine detail analysis, and technical diplomacy to “bridge the gap” for non-legal teams.
- Collaborative guile—seamless alliances with HR, legal, and business teams, under pressure, in ambiguity.
- A portfolio of multifaceted priorities, balancing speed with precision in dynamic markets.
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What We Offer
Nscaler is a fast-moving ecosystem where your talents directly reshape the future of artificial intelligence.
- Top-tier, merit-driven compensation: UK base + 12-month performance review + bonus + equity (with alignment to your trajectory).
- Ownership role at the forefront of AI/GPU hardware scaling—Your input scales alongside our mission.
- Ambition-level career growth: Become a thought leader in transformative legal-tech projects while unearthing novel opportunities freedom to shape Nscale’s employment practice blueprints (with mentoring, sponsorship, and exposure).
- Humane flexibility: Human-First—Trust where it counts. We get the real-life nuances, like household dynamic moments without micromanaging your flow.
Why Nscale?
We’re all creatures of different colors, backgrounds, walks of life. In this light, what you do transcends casing surface-level stories. We test, learn, achieve—to equip a future others may call a utopia within rightness: one regulation, workplace at a time.
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Compensation notes:
- Total offers factor in seniority baselines, market rates (Advanced, Vice-President, Director equivalency), and associated benefits (including competition-level equity stake ownership, Medicaid Kombinations).
- Candidate privacy & data allowance assimilated in compliance with Nscaler’s Employee Candidate Notice.
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