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About the Role

Maven Securities is seeking a global employment law owner to manage all employee relations matters end-to-end. This is a new role with a broad global remit, reporting directly to the Chief Legal Officer. You will advise senior leadership and set the standard for handling people issues across all jurisdictions where Maven employs.

Responsibilities

• Own all group-wide ER Legal matters, including disciplinary, grievance, performance, absence, restructuring, and contentious issues.
• Serve as the primary contact for managers and HR, providing same-day responses for time-critical issues.
• Execute cases using a consistent playbook to ensure uniform outcomes.
• Identify patterns, enhance processes and policies, and improve outcomes.
• Advise founders, C-suite, Chief People Officer, and CLO on employment risks with clear, commercial recommendations.
• Provide practical solutions alongside legal advice, detailing risks and recommended actions.
• Escalate strategic, precedent-setting, or reputationally material issues to the CLO.
• Manage employment tribunal claims and international equivalents, including ACAS early conciliation.
• Lead enforcement of restrictive covenants, non-solicitation agreements, bonus disputes, and contentious exits, instructing external counsel as needed.
• Oversee employment contracts, policies, and handbooks globally, ensuring they remain current with legislative changes.
• Develop global templates for consistency in bonus letters, policies, settlement agreements, restrictive covenants, and staff communications.
• Implement an annual policy review program to proactively address issues.
• Establish a coordination protocol for consistency in group-wide matters.
• Manage local counsel for jurisdiction-specific requirements and identify cross-border inconsistencies.
• Integrate AI and legal technology into employment workflows.
• Create templates, playbooks, and self-service materials for managers to handle routine matters and escalate appropriately.
• Build trusted relationships with managers and HR to encourage early escalation of issues.
• Deliver practical training to HR, managers, and the legal team.
• Manage the employment panel and associated external spend.

Requirements

• Qualified solicitor in England and Wales with approximately 6 to 10 years of PQE, primarily in employment law.
• Strong contentious track record with direct experience running tribunal claims.
• Comfortable advising senior stakeholders directly and confidently holding a position in high-level discussions.
• Commercial and practical approach, able to articulate the significance of legal clauses in specific contexts.
• Ability to operate independently as the sole specialist in the subject matter, with sound judgment for escalation.
• In-house experience in financial services, particularly trading, hedge funds, or similar high-performance environments (desirable).
• Exposure to multi-jurisdictional employment work, especially US or Dutch (desirable).
• Experience implementing AI or legal technology in a legal workflow (desirable).
• Experience with bonus and incentive disputes, and covenant enforcement (desirable).

Skills

• Employment law
• Case management
• Legal advisory
• Risk assessment
• Litigation management
• Contract drafting
• Policy development
• Global coordination
• Legal technology integration
• Stakeholder engagement
• Training delivery
• AI implementation

Location

• London
• Amsterdam
• US
• Asia

Work Type

• Full-time
• Onsite

Experience Level

• 6-10 years PQE

Education Level

• Qualified solicitor in England and Wales

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive compensation package
• Annual discretionary bonus

Benefits

• Group pension plan
• Enhanced annual leave allowance after 2+ years’ service
• 25 days’ annual leave (plus public holidays)
• Fully catered breakfast, lunch, and snacks
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• On-site private gym with instructor-led classes
• Monthly company events and social activities

About the Company

• Maven Securities is a technology-driven proprietary trading firm operating in options market making, high frequency, and multi-strategy discretionary trading.
• We have offices in London, Amsterdam, and across the US and Asia.
• Maven Legal is nimble, focused, senior, and commercial.
• We aim to be one of the best equipped and most technology-capable legal teams in our industry.
• We operate in a forward-thinking environment where AI is integral to our strategy and daily operations.