Senior Counsel Labor and Employment
Payward, Inc. is the parent company and operating platform behind Kraken and a portfolio spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, tokenized assets, onchain finance, and benchmarks.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward operates unified financial infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets, including shared liquidity, risk and margin systems, collateral and settlement, compliance, and licensing. Its first-party portfolio includes Kraken, Kraken Pro, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, CF Benchmarks, Reap, Krak, Kraken Prime, Kraken OTC, Kraken Custody, and Bitnomial.
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About the Role
You will provide EU and UK labor and employment advice, own recurring employment matters, and support matters in MENA and APAC. You will advise on works councils, privacy, investigations, workforce expansion, acquisitions, restrictive covenants, and outside counsel while localizing policies and delivering training.
Requirements
- 8+ years of legal experience advising on EU, UK, and international employment, labor, and executive compensation matters
- In-house and law-firm experience with high-growth and large-enterprise companies
- International labor and employment law experience
- Experience advising on works councils, collective consultation, and employee representative bodies
- Experience advising on employee and candidate privacy under GDPR and UK GDPR
- Proficiency using generative AI tools in legal work
- Knowledge of confidentiality, privilege, and personal-data protections
Responsibilities
- Provide EU and UK local-law advice and support employment matters in MENA and APAC
- Own recurring employment, labor, worker-classification, separation, employee-relations, executive-compensation, and wage-and-hour matters
- Advise on works councils, collective consultation, pay transparency, and employee representative matters
- Support acquisition due diligence and post-closing workforce integration
- Localize global policies and deliver related training
- Advise on GDPR, UK GDPR, and cross-border HR and recruiting data transfers
- Support workplace investigations
- Advise on EOR, direct employment, entity decisions, global mobility, and contingent workforce
- Advise on trade secrets and restrictive covenants
- Manage local outside counsel and monitor labor and employment trends