Legal Counsel - Employment
Verda is a Helsinki-headquartered full-stack AI cloud provider offering on-demand GPU compute, clusters, serverless containers, storage, APIs, and related AI infrastructure.
Funding history
About Verda
Formerly DataCrunch, Verda operates European AI cloud infrastructure for the full AI lifecycle, from prototyping and distributed model training to scalable inference. It manages data-center infrastructure, hardware, cloud-platform services, and an in-house AI Lab.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead employment, labour and health and safety legal matters across Verda's jurisdictions. You will advise on data center site obligations, draft employment and contractor agreements, support employee relations, advise on works councils and unions, maintain policies, handle disputes and investigations, train managers and manage external counsel.
Requirements
- LLM or equivalent law degree
- 5+ years of employment and labour law experience
- Experience with occupational health and safety law
- Multi-jurisdictional employment experience including complex regimes such as Germany
- Pragmatic business-oriented advice
- Strong English communication
- Ability to handle sensitive matters and investigations
Responsibilities
- Act as primary legal advisor on employment and labour law across jurisdictions
- Advise on health and safety obligations for data center sites
- Draft, review and negotiate employment, contractor, staffing and secondment agreements
- Advise on workforce structuring for new sites
- Support employee relations matters
- Advise on works councils, trade unions and collective bargaining
- Support development of employment and health and safety policies
- Monitor regulatory developments
- Advise on employee data protection under GDPR
- Manage employment disputes, investigations and regulatory inquiries
- Deliver training to managers and site leadership
- Manage external counsel across jurisdictions
Benefits
- Cash and equity compensation
- Local benefits