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Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar.\nOur AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. By analysing thousands of documents in minutes and powering end-to-end workflows, we cut through complexity, teams can focus on what matters: judgment, strategy, and outcomes.\n1,000+ customers across 50+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $100M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI and Graceview.\nWe partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law.\nJoining Legora means three things.\nWe lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions.\n\nWe fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback.\n\nWegrow together: as a team and with our customers.\n\nMission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts.\nIf you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place.\nThe Role\nThis is our first Director of Employee Relations & Compliance for EMEA: a senior, hands-on role owning ER casework, employment law compliance and jurisdictional risk across Germany, the UK, Sweden, Italy, Spain and France.\nBased in London, you'll be the standing authority on ER practice in the region. 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You'll report to the EMEA People Director, with a path to running an independent function reporting to the CHRO as it scales.\nWhat You'll Do\nER leadership and casework\nOwn complex casework end to end across every market: investigations, grievances, disciplinaries, PIPs and terminations for cause, to a consistently high, legally sound standard.\n\nBe the escalation point when a matter turns complex, contested or legally weighted, for Local People Advisory and the wider People org.\n\nHold the bar on case handling: written scoping, contemporaneous documentation, balance-of-probabilities findings, and independent second review of any outcome that could end employment.\n\nCompliance and jurisdictional risk\nOwn employment and ER compliance across all six markets: statutory notice and consultation, works council and union engagement, mandatory filings and register-keeping, and local implementation of the EU Whistleblowing Directive (disclosures run through a separate channel).\n\nMaintain the EMEA jurisdiction playbook and horizon-scan for legal changes, flagging implications to leadership early.\n\nEngage Employment Counsel at the right moment with a clear written scope, not as a late rescue.\n\nNote: comp-related compliance (pay equity, gender pay gap, benefits) sits with Rewards.\n\nTeam and capability building\nBuild dedicated ER capability across EMEA, prioritised by risk and case volume, on the foundation of the Stockholm team.\n\nCertify and calibrate anyone running a formal ER process, keeping casework consistent as the team grows.\n\nStakeholder partnership and consistency\nAct as the quality check for Local People Advisory across EMEA (who sit in People Operations), signing off local ER and compliance work without managing those roles day to day.\n\nPartner with People Partners, People Operations, People Tech and Rewards so policy and tooling reflect what EMEA markets need.\n\nTurn case patterns into a regular, actionable view for People leadership.\n\nWork with your NORAM and APAC counterparts on one shared case taxonomy, system and calibration forum, representing EMEA's regulatory and cultural nuance in global standards.\n\nWhat You'll Bring\nSignificant experience leading ER, HR compliance or similar at a fast-scaling company, ideally across multiple EMEA jurisdictions.\n\nDeep, practical knowledge of employment law and ER practice across several of these markets, and comfort working outside your home jurisdiction.\n\nA track record of investigations, disciplinaries and terminations that hold up to scrutiny: calm, neutral and thorough under pressure.\n\nExperience building an ER or compliance function from the ground up: process, hiring, and getting a distributed team to one standard.\n\nConfidence as a senior, independent voice, comfortable escalating to and influencing leadership.\n\nBased in or willing to relocate to London, able to travel across EMEA.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nEvery formal ER matter across the region handled fairly, consistently and to a legally sound standard.\n\nA resourced, capable EMEA ER team, built out from London to the markets that need it.\n\nThe wider People org treats this function as the standing authority on ER and compliance, not a bottleneck.\n\nA function ready to stand on its own, with a credible case for direct CHRO reporting.\n\nLegora is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nAt Legora, we believe great teams are built on diversity of thought and experience. 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