Legal Counsel - Global Employment & Labour

About the role

Fever, a tech platform for culture and live entertainment, is looking for a Legal Counsel focused on employment and labour matters to join its Madrid headquarters. The role supports Fever's operations worldwide across its growing international workforce, helping build compliant, scalable workforce models and advising the People and Labor Relations teams and business leaders on day-to-day employment matters from hiring to exits.

Key responsibilities

• Adapt company legal strategy to regional business needs in the CEE region and advise on worker classification, working time and staffing models for live experiences, including temporary, part-time and event-based staff.
• Draft and review employment contracts, contractor and freelance agreements, and internal policies, handbooks and procedures across multiple jurisdictions.
• Support employment disputes, disciplinary processes and terminations, and coordinate pre-litigation and litigation with external counsel.
• Advise on labor matters such as union relationships, collective bargaining, works councils and employee representatives.
• Act as coordination point for employment aspects of international expansions, restructurings and corporate transactions, including entity set-up, employee transfers and due diligence.
• Keep up with legislation and case law, contribute to company knowledge with templates and legal guides, and support the upskilling of colleagues.

Required profile

• Barred or practising EU-qualified lawyer with 4+ years of PQE specializing in employment and labour law.
• Experience advising on employment matters across multiple international jurisdictions.
• Experience in top-tier law firms or in-house at a large-scale multinational.
• Fluent English; Spanish or another European language is a strong plus.
• Effective communicator with emotional intelligence, strategic and business awareness, and discretion handling sensitive people matters.

What we offer

• Flexible remuneration with Cobee covering meals, transport, training and nursery support (tax-exempt).
• Option to access part of your salary in advance, tax optimization support, and private health and dental insurance with Cigna.
• Wellhub membership, language learning support, and a 40% discount on Fever events plus a free Candlelight voucher.
• Hybrid work setup with a central Madrid office.