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
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead employment, labour, and health and safety legal matters across multiple jurisdictions. You will advise on workforce arrangements, employee relations, safety obligations, privacy, disputes, and regulatory developments. You will draft agreements, maintain policies, deliver training, and coordinate external counsel.
Requirements
- LLM or equivalent degree from an accredited law programme
- 5+ years of employment and labour law experience
- Experience with occupational health and safety law in construction sites or industrial facilities
- Experience advising on employment matters across multiple jurisdictions
- Experience with complex employment regimes such as Germany
- English communication skills
Responsibilities
- Advise on employment and labour law matters across jurisdictions
- Advise on health and safety obligations for data centre sites
- Draft, review, and negotiate employment and workforce agreements
- Advise on workforce structuring, contractors, posted workers, and cross-border mobility
- Support employee relations, terminations, and restructurings
- Advise on works councils, trade unions, collective bargaining, and consultation obligations
- Develop employment and health and safety policies and procedures
- Monitor employment, labour, and safety regulatory developments
- Advise on employee data protection and GDPR matters
- Manage employment-related disputes, investigations, and regulatory inquiries
- Deliver employment law and health and safety training
- Manage external employment and health and safety counsel
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Local benefits