Paralegal, Legal Operations

About Remote

Remote is solving global remote organizations' biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance. Check out remote.com/how-it-works to learn more or if you're interested in adding to the mission, scroll down to apply now.

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The position

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Paralegal, Legal Operations joining our Legal Team.

We are looking for a talented and eager paralegal to focus on operations of the legal department. As Remote is increasing its global footprint, every expansion to a new country brings corporate, labour, and tax law issues. The legal team is responsible for the legal soundness of the business model, incorporation, and contract templates, along with contract negotiation and redlining, data protection and compliance. Next to this, we perform a legal analysis on new products and services, and advise other teams on legal matters.

What this job can offer you

As a Paralegal in the legal department, your will support our the entire legal team with these tasks. As part of your responsibilities focused on legal operations, this role will also involve:

• Organizing, redirecting, and distributing legal tasks on our project board (ASANA) and legal-help channel (Slack)
  • This includes coordinating complex projects and everyday tasks, ensuring that members of the legal team can focus on their work and no one person is taking on too much
• Determining root causes for bottlenecks in our internal processes and recommending and implementing solutions
  • This includes tracking, benchmarking, analysing, and reporting on ongoing legal tasks and projects
• Working with other teams at Remote to create efficient processes so that legal questions can be answered in a timely manner
  • This includes helping teams "self-serve" and answer their own questions through proper documentation and training

Because Remote is growing rapidly, we need to develop the legal department and this will provide you with the opportunity to develop alongside the legal department in the direction of your choosing. We want to empower you to Own (one of our five core values) your projects and tasks as you become a key member of the Legal Team. This will initially be an individual contributor role.

What you bring

• Legal Operations or similar experience working in a legal environment preferred
• Law background a plus but not essential
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills and reading comprehension
• Ability to switch between multiple different projects
• Ability to learn and master Remote's communication application (Slack), contract management system (Juro/internal platform/CLM), documentation sources (Notion, Google Drive, etc.), and assignment management systems (Kissflow/Zendesk/Zip/Coupa).
• Comfort with Excel/Sheets and generating simple statistics such as average task times, work distribution percentages, etc.

Practicals

• You'll report to: Head of Legal; Legal Team
• Team: Legal
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

For U.S. applicants: Across all US locations, the base salary range for this full-time position is $90,400 to $104,000 plus eligibility for equity. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

We offer a generous benefits package to all full-time employees. In the U.S. this includes: a 401(k) plan + 4% employer match, unlimited paid time off, paid sick leave in excess of local requirements, paid parental leave, FSA, HSA, health, dental and vision plans for you .Click here for more information on our global employee benefits.

Application process

1. Interview with recruiter
2. Interview with Legal Hiring Managers
3. Interview with other Legal Team members
4. Exercise (optional)
5. Interview with Head of Legal
6. Prior employment verification check (Read more at remote.com/employment-checks)

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Benefits

Our benefits & perks are explained in our public handbook at remote.com/benefits.

How you'll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.

We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.

See how to convert your CV to PDF here.

If you don't have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Need help? Email hiring@remote.com