Director, Employment Legal (EMEA + JAPAC)
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Role Summary
HubSpot’s Legal team is a proactive, business-enabling partner—not a back-office function. We help our teams move fast, smart, and responsibly. Legal plays a critical role in balancing innovation with rigor—helping HubSpot scale responsibly while maintaining trust, compliance, and clarity.
As Director, Employment Legal (EMEA + JAPAC), you will lead HubSpot’s regional employment legal function across EMEA and JAPAC. Reporting to the VP, Deputy General Counsel (Global Employment), you will manage a high-performing team of regional employment lawyers, serve as a trusted advisor to People and business leadership, and help shape how HubSpot navigates complex employment matters across multiple jurisdictions. This is a strategic leadership role for someone who thrives in fast-moving, high-growth environments and enjoys building scalable, thoughtful legal frameworks that empower the business.
What You’ll Do
- Act as a trusted advisor to the People Team and senior business stakeholders on employment law matters including hiring, termination, employee relations, performance management, compensation, working time, leaves, and investigations.
- Manage employment litigation and pre-litigation matters, including outside counsel oversight and legal strategy.
- Lead employment legal support for cross-border workforce restructurings, including redundancy processes and collective consultation.
- Advise on works council and employee representative body obligations across key EMEA jurisdictions, including Germany, France, and Spain.
- Develop and maintain policies, templates, and playbooks that enable scalable, consistent legal guidance.
- Deliver targeted training and enablement programs for People Team partners and business stakeholders.
- Partner on HubSpot’s international expansion and footprint strategy across EMEA and JAPAC.
- Monitor legislative and regulatory developments across the region and lead implementation of compliance initiatives.
- Lead and develop a high-performing, inclusive team of employment lawyers grounded in trust, accountability, and curiosity.
- Leverage AI and scalable self-service tools to deliver faster, clearer, and more consistent legal support.
What You’ll Bring
Required Qualifications
- Qualified to practice law in Ireland or England & Wales.
- 10+ years of post-qualification experience in employment law, including in-house experience at a multinational company.
- Deep expertise across multiple EMEA jurisdictions, including two or more of: Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, or Belgium.
- Proven experience managing cross-border restructurings, collective consultation processes, and works council or employee representative body obligations.
- Experience managing and developing lawyers or legal professionals.
- Strong communication and decision-making skills, including the ability to navigate ambiguity and explain complex legal concepts clearly.
- Ability to build trusted relationships across Legal, People, and executive leadership teams.
- Passion for HubSpot’s Culture Code and collaborative working style.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Experience supporting employment law matters in JAPAC jurisdictions such as Australia, Singapore, Japan, or India.
- Experience working within a SaaS, technology, or AI-forward environment.
- Experience building scalable legal operations, self-service guidance, or AI-enabled legal workflows.
Where You’ll Work
- Location: Ireland or United Kingdom
- Work location preference eligibility: Remote eligible
- Travel: Occasional travel may be required for team collaboration and business needs
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About HubSpot
HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is an AI-powered customer platform with all the software, integrations, and resources customers need to connect marketing, sales, and service. HubSpot's connected platform enables businesses to grow faster by focusing on what matters most: customers.
At HubSpot, bold is our baseline. Our employees around the globe move fast, stay customer-obsessed, and win together. Our culture is grounded in four commitments: Solve for the Customer, Be Bold, Learn Fast, Align, Adapt & Go!, and Deliver with HEART. These commitments shape how we work, lead, and grow.
We’re building a company where people can do their best work. We focus on brilliant work, not badge swipes. By combining clarity, ownership, and trust, we create space for big thinking and meaningful progress. And we know that when our employees grow, our customers do too.
Recognized globally for our award-winning culture by Comparably, Glassdoor, Fortune, and more, HubSpot is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with employees and offices around the world.
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