Junior Counsel - Latin America - Based Anywhere
Omnipresent, Argentina
Job Description
Why?
Omnipresent facilitates global remote working for our clients. With so many companies transitioning to remote work, what we offer is more relevant than ever, and we are growing fast! We need an experienced Junior Counsel who can work with our client base across 150 jurisdictions.
What?
Omnipresent is ramping up operations globally and expanding the legal team globally so there couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us.
Who?
You may lack experience, but you are smart and passionate about your work and this opportunity.
The detail
About Omnipresent
Remote work is one of the great equalisers of our time, allowing people to secure employment opportunities from companies around the world, no matter where they were born or where they live.
Yet, at a time when remote work is exploding, most companies are finding it too complex, costly and time consuming to employ workers internationally. At Omnipresent, we’re cutting this complexity and providing our clients, and their remote workers, with a simplified, cost effective and legally compliant employment experience. With a network of legal entities across the world, coupled with an automation-focused tech platform, we’re building the premier global employment-as-a-service offering on the market.
Your role
At Omnipresent, you will join our legal team and offer support and guidance to the business and to our customers. This role is 100% operational and suited to a junior hire who may have no international experience yet but wants to! It's a unique opportunity to get fast-tracked global experience and it will give you the skills you need for any in-house employment role! This is a high pressure, fast paced role where you will be required to work on loads of small projects at any one time, and expected to respond to queries quickly.
Requirements
You must be:
- A qualified Solicitor / Attorney (NQ - 3 PQE)
- Good academic record
- Happiest working outside your comfort zone and confident applying your existing knowledge to unfamiliar situation
- Have a global mindset and a passion for international work
- Enthusiastic and passionate about your work
- Have excellent attention to detail even when juggling multiple priorities
These would be a huge bonus:
- In-house experience
- Experience in a startup or SME
- Interested in technology, automation and innovation
- Multiple languages
You are the sort of person that.
- Can articulate complex ideas simply
- Has excellent communication/presentation skills and ability to build positive relationships
- Lives outside their comfort zone and is confident in what they do, and do not, know
- Is able to receive negative feedback without taking it personally
- Is confident but respectful
- Is willing to learn, be mentored and trained
- Goes the extra mile in order to deliver on our customer commitments
Benefits
What’s in it for you (apart from the most fun and challenging ride of your life!)
- Shared ownership - Being a part of our journey means you will own a piece of Omnipresent
- Annual vacation entitlement: 33 days including local holidays
- Equipment and infrastructure: We give you a budget for all the equipment you need to work effectively wherever you are
- Company retreats: We are planning biannual company-wide retreats post COVID, and well as socials and other team building activities
- Flexible working - Work from anywhere in the world - We don’t care where or when you work as long as the job gets done. We are genuinely as flexible as the work allows
We believe remote working is a great equaliser and we practice what we preach. Inclusivity is fundamental to our mission and we are committed to conscious inclusion. We believe in the potential of everyone; regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.