Associate Legal

**Job Title**: Associate Legal - LATAM

**Department**: Legal

**Location**: Remote - LATAM

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We are looking for a **Legal Counsel **focused** **on **Employment Law** to join our growing Legal team in LATAM. This international legal position is full-time, remote-based, and reports to our Senior Legal Counsel LATAM.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Review and draft complex and general employment law aspects and agreements (including confidentiality, IP rights, non-solicitation, bonus arrangements) with a primary focus on the following countries labor regulations**:Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Chile**,** **Argentina, **and other** **L**ATAM** **jurisdictions** as needed**.
- Work closely with individual departments to anticipate, identify and manage compliance matters, legal exposure, and risk management, and provide legal support and advice to individual departments.
- Work closely with the relevant departments and provide legal advice in the process of setting up and/or maintaining local entities in the focus countries.
- Provide analysis and guidance on projects across diverse areas of international employment matters based on legislative or regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate the activities of outside counsels in the different countries.
- Focus on other countries and perform other key duties as may be required by the (Associate) from time to time.

**QUALIFICATIONS**
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Education/Experience:

- JD degree from local university from a Latam country.
- Between 3 and 5 years of employment law experience.
- Master in law degree from a university in Labor is a plus.
- Fluency in Spanish and business proficiency in the English language is required.
- Demonstrate experience with handling multiple cases at the same time, service-orientated quick turnarounds, project management, and providing practical compliant solutions
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent analytical skills; capable of identifying and prioritizing issues and escalating where appropriate
- High level of personal integrity and professional ethics.
- Experience with Employer of Record (EoR) is a plus
- Adaptable and flexible - able to juggle between and deliver upon variation of tasks, ready for a challenge.
- Able to adjust to changes and local requirements of local regulations and to provide fast and practical advice to internal clients.
- Business partner with commercial, HR Specialists and operations internal team daily and on a longer term for specific projects.

**OUR VALUES**

**Velocity**: Exceeding expectations of our customers, colleagues, and ourselves by delivering swift and effective results.

**Integrity**: Doing right by our customers, colleagues, and ourselves through honest and ethical actions.

**Be Bold**: Daring to take risks, learn, and grow to benefit our customers, colleagues, and ourselves.

**Empowerment**: Owning our decisions and being accountable for the impact we have on our customers, colleagues, and ourselves.

**Service**: Supporting our customers, colleagues, and ourselves with respect and empathy.

**WHAT WE DO**

Velocity Global is one of the fastest growing companies in the world. Our Global Work Platform enables the world’s leading companies to identify, hire, and pay the best talent in over 185+ countries, and all 50 United States. More than 1,000 brands rely on our **Global Work Platform** to build highly collaborative global teams with ease. At Velocity Global, we make working from anywhere, anytime, possible.

**WHO WE ARE AS A TEAM**

We are a team of passionate, creative, empathetic, and innovative, “owner-employees”, committed to building the world’s #1 cloud-based, next-gen **Global Work Platform**.

If you wake up compelled to innovate, collaborate and laugh, you should apply

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