At Pleo, we’re on a mission to revolutionise the way businesses manage company spending. No more outdated processes, clunky spreadsheets, or frustrating delays - we believe spend management should be seamless, empowering, and surprisingly effective for finance teams and employees alike. We’re creating tools that promote autonomy, foster trust, and let businesses focus on what truly matters.
Our culture is built on transparency, collaboration, and a deep commitment to innovation – which is reflected in our spending solution. At Pleo, you’ll join a passionate team shaping the future of work, all while having some fun along the way.
About the role
We're looking for a Senior Legal Counsel, who is specialised within Employment Law to join our Legal team at Pleo. You should also have some experience with GDPR. In this role, you’ll be an integral part of our Insights & Acceleration Domain, working closely with finance and strategy colleagues to enable business growth, scalability and key strategic initiatives to drive accelerated and sustainable growth. As a Legal Counsel, you will be a trusted advisor and business partner across multiple areas and countries.
As this is a new role, you will have a unique opportunity to scope out how to approach the opportunities ahead.
What you’ll be doing:
- Conduct pragmatic risk assessments and provide clear and concise legal advice to business stakeholders.
- Partner directly with business teams, act as primary legal advisor to your business partners, drive and manage projects.
- Act as an subject matter expert for employment law topics (it would be a plus if you have experience with data protection as well) within the Pleo legal department.
- Be comfortable with moving between operational and strategic topics on an ongoing basis.
- Advise the organisation ensuring that Pleo remains legally compliant in any market where it is active.
- Advance excellence by maturing legal processes to drive innovation in the organisation whilst remaining legally compliant.
- Work as part of a team, guide, develop and mentor junior legal team members.
What you bring:
- Are a fully qualified lawyer in the EU or UK.
- Located in Denmark, Germany, the UK or other EU locations where we are active.
- You have between 6 and 10 years of experience working in-house or in private practice.
- Can draft legal documents and work in English (Danish language experience would be an advantage).
- Experience in EU Employment law and Data Privacy is preferred in this role.
- Thrive in working in a start-up environment.
- You have the ability to distill complex legal and privacy advice into understandable and actionable guidance for non-lawyers.
- Are comfortable and adept at balancing risk and opportunity and thinking creatively to enable your colleagues to make smart decisions.
- Enjoy collaborating and engaging with multiple different teams across Pleo.
Who you’ll be working with and reporting to
You’ll report to our General Legal Counsel and work closely with teams across the company. Our team is highly collaborative and dedicated to giving the best legal advice and collaboration with the rest of the organisation. You’ll also have the chance to partner with teams across other departments to ensure success.”
How you’ll develop in this role
In your first 6 months at Pleo, you’ll:
- Lead a governance project to optimise the legal function within employment law to support compliance across multiple jurisdictions
- Collaborate with P&C and the legal team to improve processes across the organisation
- Grow your skills in employment law, commercial understanding and data privacy, taking on new challenges as the company continues to scale.
- Support cross-border employment and mobility initiatives to navigate the complexities of remote and international work.
- Stay ahead of new regulations, particularly in employment law and GDPR, and translate it into actionable advice for the business.
- Contribute to training and knowledge-sharing in the organisation.
We’re committed to helping you develop your career, whether that means taking on bigger projects, stepping into leadership, or acquiring new skills in specific legal areas.
Show me the benefits!
- Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
- Lunch is on us for your work days - enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office 🍜
- Comprehensive private healthcare - depending on your location, coverage options include Vitality, Alan or Médis
- We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
- For our Team, we offer both hybrid and fully remote working options
- Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
- We use MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and well-being support with great success so far ❤️🩹
- Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
- Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶
Why join us?
Working at Pleo means you're working on something very exciting: the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means ‘more than you’d expect’, and it’s been the secret to our success over the last 8 years. So it’s only fitting that we’d pass this philosophy onto our customers to help them make the most of their finances.
We think company spending should be delegated to all employees and teams, that it should be as automated as possible, and that it should drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams shouldn’t be siloed from the rest of the organisation – they should work in unity with marketing, sales, IT and everyone else.
Speaking of working in unity, our values tell the story of how we work at Pleo. We have four core values, the first of which is ‘champion the customer’, which means we address real pain points that businesses face. Next up is ‘succeed as a team’, which highlights how our strength lies in our diversity and trust in each other. We also ‘make it happen’ by taking bold decisions and following through to deliver results. Last but not least, we ‘build to scale’, creating lasting solutions that address today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.
So, in a nutshell, that's Pleo. Today we are a 850+ team, from over 100 nations, sitting in our Copenhagen HQ, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Montreal and Lisbon offices —and quite a few full-time remotes in 35 other countries! Being HQ'd out of Copenhagen means we're inspired by things like a good work-life balance. If you don't work in the office with us, we'll help you set up the best remote setup possible and make sure you still have time to connect with your team.
About your application
- Please submit your application in English; it’s our company language so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join 💕
- We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there! Our lovely support isn't able to pass on any calls/ emails our way - and this makes sure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone 😊
- We’re on a mission to make everyone feel valued at work. That’s only achievable if our team reflects the diversity of the world around us - and that starts with you, hitting apply, even if you are worried you might not tick all the boxes! We embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply - regardless of race/ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic status, culture or beliefs.
- When you submit an application we process your personal data as a data processor. Find out more about how your data is used in the FAQs section at the bottom of our jobs page.
Perks and benefits
This job comes with several perks and benefits
Free lunch
Flexible working hours
Free coffee / tea
Near public transit
Social gatherings
Free office snacks
Working at
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