Employment Counsel (m/w/d) - Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg

Overview

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What To Expect

Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. We continuously develop revolutionary strategies and products within the shortest time, and successfully launch them on a large scale. This is only possible through extraordinary speed, innovation, and efficiency.

Gigafactory Berlin forms the perfect basis for rolling out Tesla's incredible success story in Europe. The most important pillar of this is our employees. Their passion, motivation, and engagement ensure that we consistently achieve our goals. We are looking for you to continue and expand this success story together.

The Role

In this role, you'll advise HR and other business units across all German Tesla entities on a wide range of labor and employment matters, including works council issues. As part of Tesla’s EMEA Legal team, you'll also support the broader Employment team as needed, including matters beyond Germany.

You'll be highly organized, self-motivated, proactive, and entrepreneurial—thriving in a fast-growing, dynamic company where you can make a significant impact in one of Tesla's largest markets.

What You'll Do

• Manage and assess employment law risks, providing practical, creative solutions to business partners


• Offer day-to-day guidance on employment issues, including recruiting, hiring, compensation and benefits, pay practices, HR policies, performance management, terminations, employee investigations, and labor relations


• Negotiate, draft, review, and refine employment-related agreements


• Develop and improve frameworks for employment contracts, collaborating with internal teams (e.g., Recruiting, HR, and Payroll) to implement scalable policies and programs that balance legal risks with business needs; monitor emerging legislation and regulations to ensure compliance


• Provide strategic and tactical direction for ongoing and potential employment disputes and litigation


• Support Tesla's commitment to a fair, and compliant workplace by leading compliance projects and delivering training to managers and employees


• Partner closely with the HR team to address compliance, employee relations, internal investigations, audits, employment claims, and labor matters


• Track new legislation and regulations, providing proactive input to shape internal processes and strategies

What You'll Bring

• Excellent communication skills, with native-level German fluency and fluent English (written and spoken)


• 1st and 2nd state examination in law with above-average results or comparable degree


• At least 6 years of relevant experience at a law firm and/or in-house corporate environment in Germany


• Strong knowledge of works constitution law and experience working with works councils


• Team player with the ability to proactively identify issues, drive projects, and deliver pragmatic, creative legal and business solutions on time


• Comfortable working autonomously or collaboratively, prioritizing tasks effectively in a fast-paced, challenging environment


• Entrepreneurial mindset with a sense of ownership; quick and flexible learner who is intellectually curious, adaptable, and excited by ambiguity and dynamic change


• Skilled at making complex cost/benefit assessments, with strong interpersonal skills to build relationships with stakeholders at all levels

What we offer

You will be working in our state-of-the-art Gigafactory where you’ll solve the world's most interesting problems with the best and brightest people who share a passion to change the world. Tesla’s compensation package includes competitive salary and Tesla shares or bonuses. Typical benefits that are offered are a pension program, 30 vacation days, employee insurance, free EV charging stations and public commuting support.

Additional information

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level


• Employment type: Full-time


• Job function: Legal


• Industries: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing, Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing, and Utilities

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