Counsel

✨ One platform, a whole world of opportunity

Right now, the best jobs are limited to people in a handful of the world’s wealthiest cities, yet brilliant people are everywhere. Driven to overturn the status quo and distribute opportunities equally around the world, Oyster launched its global employment platform to help companies hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere.

When it comes to global employment, we walk the walk. We’re proof that companies don't need an office to create a highly-engaged culture. Since the company’s inception in January 2020, Oyster has:

Our momentum speaks to the power of global employment—and we’re just getting started! If you want to change the world with Oyster and be empowered to work remotely while doing so, we’d love for you to apply!

👩‍💻 The Role

Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote, and you can work from home. Forever. To create the best experience for our new hire (you?!), this role requires that you be based within -3/-6 UTC.

What you'll do…

Oyster is looking for a Commercial Counsel to contribute to Oyster's growth to become the world leader in global distributed working. Reporting to the Managing Counsel, your responsibilities will include, but will not limited to the following:

• Providing advice and counsel to support Sales, Finance, and other internal teams regarding commercial contracts and a variety of legal issues;
• Reviewing contracts to ensure compliance with Oyster policies;
• Leading our third-party contracting management function;
• Supporting product development with regulatory and compliance advice and counsel supporting new product initiatives;
• Assisting team and department management with workload capacity planning and participation in project teams to accomplish projects contributing to Oyster’s success;
• Supporting contract automation initiatives to reduce legal touches on commercial opportunities;
• Supporting knowledge management initiatives through creating and updating various playbooks so business partners can self-serve answers autonomously and;
• Conducting training and being comfortable presenting to further Legal’s role in being a transparent, accessible business partner to the company.

The role requires you to bring a balanced, practical, and commercial lens to everything you do. You will need to be flexible, think on your feet and outside the box. We are looking for someone who is a robust communicator and willing to work as a true collaborator with a team focused on succeeding together to deliver a common goal.

What we're looking for...

• Juris Doctorate or other qualified lawyer with at least 5 years experience as a fully licensed or qualified practicing attorney in your country of residence.
• 5+ years post-qualification legal experience working in a reputable commercial law firm, in-house legal department (or a combination of both).
• Experience in corporate advisory and in drafting and negotiating commercial agreements.
• Experience advising companies on regulatory risk and analyzing multi-jurisdictional issues. You will have the ability to deliver applicable, concise advice so business partners understand risk and can make informed risk-based decisions.
• Capable of explaining complex legal theory, terminology, and issues in easy-to-understand, cross-cultural language in a customer-facing manner.
• An affinity for and experience in tackling and solving difficult and varied legal issues creatively.
• A desire to help a growing company build new systems and processes in response to market evolution.
• Exemplary analytical, communication, and research skills.
• Proficient in Google Suite of products (Gmail, Google Doc, Google Sheets).
• Positive, independent, initiative-taking attitude and ability to work in a dynamic, high-output, team-oriented, practical environment.
• Demonstrates the ability to learn new things, work on various issues, and adapt to dynamic environments.
• You will be courteous, flexible, highly organized, reliable, forward-thinking, and use self-governing judgment.
• A good sense of humor and willingness to assist others no matter how small the task.
• Be competent. Be unquestionably ethical. Have humility. Work hard. Celebrate wins.
• Experience with remote work.
• [BONUS] Prior experience supporting a growing sales function.
• [BONUS] Prior experience working with tech or SaaS companies.
• [BONUS] Experience with a Contract Lifecycle Management system preferred (e.g., Ironclad, SAP CLM, Avvoka, Conga, Spotdraft, or the like).
• [BONUS] Experience creating knowledge management resources such as contract negotiation playbooks to drive efficiency.
• [BONUS] Familiarity with Notion, Asana, and any e-billing/ matter management system.
• [BONUS] Electronic signature software experience preferred (e.g., HelloSign, DocuSign).

You'll also need...

• A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one)
• Fluent English language skills

🦪 How we work together at Oyster

Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes us special. We elevate talent. 🙌 We build trust. 🤝 We thrive together. 🌍

Our mission is to create a more equal world—one global hire at a time. Everything we do ladders up to our mission—and that doesn’t just mean building software. We develop programs, participate in workshops, and create dedicated teams to ensure we successfully support companies and knowledge workers in this new world of work.

We embrace asynchronous communication and collaborative work—and we share how we work in the Oyster Public HQ —to help other global teams learn from our experiences.

💌 How YOU work

Different countries have different statutory benefits, different cultures have different norms, and different people have different needs! In order to best support and encourage our diverse team, we’ve created How YOU Work; a program of policies, practices, and perks to support your whole human experience as an employee at Oyster.

• Work from anywhere: Oyster is a borderless, HQ-less company. As long as your work gets done on time, your team has the support they need, and you're authorized to work where you live, the world is truly your Oyster.
• Paid time off: We’re all about taking breaks—we all need it. Oyster provides employees with 40 days off each year, which includes public/bank holidays and vacation/holiday leave (unless your country mandates more).
• Mental health support: We consider your mental health a top priority. We offer access to Plumm, a mental well-being service, to support your mental health.
• Wellbeing allowance: Each month, Oyster will top up your ThanksBen wallet with a wellbeing allowance. You can get pretty much anything that your heart desires! ThanksBen offers a wide array of options for spending your wellbeing allowance. Check out their benefits catalogue here for inspiration.
• Flexible parental leave: Families are created in lots of different ways. Our parental leave policy applies to all employees who are becoming parents, regardless of how they become a parent. Oysters are eligible for a minimum of three months of paid parental leave and your job will be held for 12 months (or longer if required by local jurisdiction).
• WFH stipend: $3000 stipend to spend on your laptop and any other equipment you need for your home office; we'll get you up and running in no time!

✨ The best jobs should be available to everyone

At Oyster, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences and we’ve intentionally built our product and our company with an inclusive, global mindset. We know from experience that people from underrepresented groups often don’t apply for roles they don’t feel they meet all the criteria for. We’re committed to elevating talent by creating a trust-based environment where we can all thrive together. So if you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily check every single box, please consider applying. We’d love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team.

Oyster is committed to ensuring equal opportunity of employment for qualified persons with disabilities and actively fosters an inclusive work environment. If you require reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process, please email [email protected] with the subject line: Interview Accommodations.

Our available positions are published on our careers page and should you be invited to interview with us, our recruitment team will only ever contact you directly from an @oysterhr.com email address. We will never ask you to send us money as part of a job offer. If you receive a suspicious email relating to opportunities at Oyster from any other email domain where someone is claiming to be a part of our recruitment team, or are directed to anywhere other than www.oysterhr.com/careers to view our available jobs we encourage you to submit a report through our Compliance and Ethics Helpline.