✨ 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:

🌏 Created a fully-distributed, vibrant team of 400+ employees across 60+ countries

👩‍💻Featured in Forbes having ranked #9 in Flexjobs Top 30 Companies for remote jobs

🌈 Established a diverse leadership team and an employee base that’s 60% female

🏆 Achieved one of the highest employee engagement scores in its class

🦄 Raised $286 million to date, with a current valuation of $1.2 billion!

💚 B Corp status achieved in 2023

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!

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 ensure the best experience for our new hire, this role requires you to be based within EMEA.

Oyster is on a mission to become the world leader in global distributed work, and we’re looking for a Commercial Counsel to join us on that journey. Reporting to the Director and Senior Managing Counsel, you’ll be the go-to legal partner for our business teams, helping us grow while keeping risk in check.

You’ll work on a wide range of commercial matters—from negotiating contracts with vendors and partners to creating templates and playbooks that streamline our processes. Your guidance will directly impact Oyster’s business decisions, helping us protect our IP, manage compliance, and unlock opportunities for growth.

This role is perfect for someone who loves solving complex legal challenges, thrives in a fast-moving environment, and can translate legal concepts into clear, actionable advice for non-legal colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide pragmatic, business-focused legal advice on commercial contracts, vendor agreements, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, and data privacy.

• Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, SaaS/PaaS/IaaS contracts, licensing agreements, consulting and professional services contracts, and marketing/sponsorship agreements.

• Negotiate critical clauses such as limitations of liability, indemnification, warranties, data rights, and IP ownership, balancing risk with commercial goals.

• Lead initiatives to improve our contracting processes, including templates, playbooks, AI-powered reviews, and risk matrices.
  Partner closely with procurement, finance, IT, and other teams during vendor selection and RFPs, helping drive cost savings and value creation.

• Ensure vendor agreements comply with global regulations like GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and other relevant frameworks.

• Mentor junior attorneys, contract managers, and commercial legal specialists, sharing knowledge and fostering growth.

• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to make sure legal guidance is practical, collaborative, and aligned with business priorities.
  

Core Requirements

• Juris Doctorate or equivalent law degree and at least 5 years of experience as a fully licensed, practicing attorney.

• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements.

• Ability to explain complex legal concepts in simple, actionable terms for business partners and third parties.

• Proven experience developing and implementing contract negotiation playbooks and improving contract processes.

• Strong analytical, communication, and research skills.

• Curiosity and commercial mindset to understand Oyster’s goals and provide practical, value-driven legal solutions.

• Strong business acumen with the ability to distill complex legal concepts into clear, practical, and actionable guidance for non-legal stakeholders.

• Ability to work independently, take initiative, and create new processes to drive efficiency.

• Positive attitude, high level of organization, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

• Experience with remote work

Bonus

• Prior experience supporting partnerships, strategic white-label, or embedded relationships.

• Experience in tech or SaaS companies.

• Familiarity with Contract Lifecycle Management systems (e.g., Ironclad, SAP CLM, Avvoka, Conga, Spotdraft).

• 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: 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 jobs@oysterhr.com 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.