G-P - Employment Counsel
Requirements
• Legal Qualification: Qualified to practice law in Malaysia, Philippines, or another major Common Law jurisdiction within APAC. • Legal Qualification: • Malaysia • Philippines • Experience: 8+ years of combined employment law experience, including solid law firm practice and at least 2 years of in-house legal experience within a fast-paced multinational employer • 8+ years • Work Ethic & Professional Diligence: Demonstrated track record as a highly diligent, dependable, and hardworking self-starter who consistently goes above and beyond to meet critical team SLAs and business objectives. • Work Ethic & Professional Diligence: • Resilience & Professional Agility: Excellent emotional intelligence, grace under pressure, and a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset when handling last-minute business requests or urgent escalations. • Resilience & Professional Agility: • Legal & Business Acumen: Impeccable legal judgment, strong creative problem-solving skills, and the ability to balance legal risk with commercial imperatives. • Legal & Business Acumen: • Communication & Languages: Superior written and verbal communication skills in English. Professional working proficiency in Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin, or another regional APAC language is a strong advantage. • Communication & Languages: • Relationship Management: Outstanding interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build trust, form strong working relationships internationally, and influence cross-functional business units effectively. • Relationship Management: • Domain expertise: Experience working in global EOR/tech platform or Broader HR Tech • Domain expertise: • Our ranges are established using objective market benchmarking data for this level of work. Final placement within the range is determined by gender-neutral criteria, including the candidate's relevant skills, experience, and specific qualifications for the role. • Actual compensation for this position may vary and will depend on multiple factors such as relevant qualifications, experience, education, and geographic location. For Full-Time Regular Employees, this position is also eligible for additional compensation as follows: • Sales Roles: This position is eligible for a commission structure in addition to base salary. • Non-Sales Roles: This position is eligible for an annual bonus which is paid dependent on various factors, including and without limitation, individual and company performance in addition to base salary.
Responsibilities
• Strategic Employment Advice: Provide high-quality legal oversight and strategic guidance on critical employment matters, regulatory compliance, and workforce management throughout the APAC region. • Strategic Employment Advice: • Dispute Resolution & Risk Management: Develop creative, business-sensitive approaches to managing legal risks and oversee employment-related disputes and litigation using in-house and outside counsel resources. • Dispute Resolution & Risk Management: • Proactive Stakeholder Support & Engagement: Partner closely with Global Operations and People Team to ensure prompt, thorough, and high-touch legal follow-through on regional employee relations matters. • Proactive Stakeholder Support & Engagement: • Scale: Effectively work with a growing and geographically dispersed team within the region fostering a culture of high performance, resilience, and mutual accountability. • Scale: • Process & Template Standardization: Partner cross-functionally to build scalable, compliant processes, employment contracts, and regional handbook templates. • Process & Template Standardization: • In-House Training & Knowledge Sharing: Own, develop, and deliver practical in-house legal training sessions for internal business units and operational teams. • In-House Training & Knowledge Sharing: • Regional Legal Tracking: Maintain deep, current knowledge of national and local labor laws across key APAC jurisdictions. • Regional Legal Tracking: • Project Execution: Coordinate, drive, and take end-to-end ownership of cross-functional employment legal projects through to completion. • Project Execution:
Benefits
• G-P values its employees and offers excellent benefits and perks including generous paid parental leave, flexible time off, spending accounts, medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, sabbatical after 5 years and more. • Individuals residing, or applying to work, in the United States: California or Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, please review the following additional information:G-P will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles City Fair Chance Act Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Act Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Act Ordinance. Los Angeles applicants can review additional information regarding the Los Angeles City Fair Chance Act here: Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and Philadelphia applicants can review information pertaining to Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Record Screening Standards Ordinance here: Fair Chance Poster. Any consideration of a candidate’s background check with arrest or conviction records will include an individualized assessment based on the factors required by applicable law, including the candidate’s specific record and the duties and requirements of the specific job. • United States: California or Philadelphia • Pennsylvania, • G-P. Global Made Possible.
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