Senior Employment Counsel

Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex, end-to-end business processes. With built-in governance, auditability, and human oversight, Camunda gives enterprises the control they need to move AI from pilots to production — safely and at scale. Trusted by over 700 organizations worldwide, including 9 of the top 10 US banks, Camunda helps enterprises boost operational efficiency, accelerate time-to-value, and deliver better customer experiences.

Fully remote and global, Camunda is transforming into an AI-first organization, built on its own platform. They use Agentic AI to automate, orchestrate intelligent processes, and elevate human contribution across every team.

Named GP Bullhound’s Top 100 Next Unicorn list for 2025, 2025 Great Place to Work certified, and ranked as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies, Camunda is also ranked 3rd in Flexa's 2026 Most Flexible Companies.

About the Role:

Camunda is hiring a Senior Employment Counsel to provide first-line legal support for their People team. This role involves advising directly on employment matters, managing key legal and HR vendor relationships, and reducing reliance on outside counsel. The ideal candidate will operate as a trusted business partner rather than a gatekeeper.

What You'll Be Doing:

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the first line of support for employment legal questions, resolving most matters directly rather than routing them to outside counsel.
• Partner with each People Business Partner to advise on employee relations, performance management, terminations, leaves, and accommodations. Manage severe employee relations cases directly.
• Own the Remote.com relationship, including contract terms, service levels, escalations, and ongoing performance.
• Own the external legal counsel relationship, including a clear evaluation of scope, spend, and who they engage with.
• Partner with Legal and Finance on cross-functional projects involving employment law, compliance, or spend.
• Ensure compliance with employment law across every jurisdiction where Camunda operates, with particular depth in the DACH region. Find opportunities to reduce risk or balance risk with business value.
• Identify and adopt AI tools that make legal support to the People team faster and more effective.
• Track and reduce external counsel spend against a clear baseline.

What You Bring:

• A J.D. or equivalent law degree, with active bar admission in at least one jurisdiction.
• 8+ years of employment law experience, including significant in-house experience at a global, multi-jurisdiction company.
• Deep, current knowledge of DACH employment law (works councils, termination protections, co-determination), plus broad experience across other global jurisdictions.
• Experience managing outside counsel and HR vendor relationships, including EOR platforms such as Remote or similar.
• A track record of advising HR and People teams directly, and translating legal risk into practical, business-pragmatic guidance.
• Strong judgment and comfort making autonomous calls without escalating every matter to outside counsel.
• Experience using AI tools to improve legal or compliance workflows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to build trust across People, Legal, and Finance.