Company Description

As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.

Job Description

We are on the lookout for a Senior Manager, EU Employment Law (Platform Workers) to join the Global Legal Logistics Team on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

Join the team that protects and enables Delivery Hero’s growth. In the Legal Team, you’ll support key initiatives by providing proactive legal guidance that aligns business goals with regulatory standards. Your work will help mitigate risks and ensure we’re positioned for sustainable, long-term success—making you a key contributor to our mission of delivering amazing experiences worldwide.

As a Senior Manager within the Global Legal Logistics team, you will play a critical role in navigating the regulatory challenges of platform work worldwide.

• Lead the management of regulatory and legal risks related to platform work across the European Union, overseeing a team of EU employment lawyers based in multiple jurisdictions.

• Provide high-quality employment, immigration, and commercial law support to Rider operations across EU markets.

• Develop a deep understanding of Delivery Hero’s tech stack and delivery operations, and design pragmatic strategies to manage and mitigate legal and regulatory risks.

• Oversee employment litigation and regulatory developments across assigned markets, ensuring senior stakeholders have clear and timely visibility of risks at local, regional, and central levels.

• Drive continuous improvement of legal processes, reporting, and ways of working within the broader Global Legal Logistics function.

• Support the role’s international scope by remaining flexible and available for short-notice travel (up to approximately 10%).

Qualifications

• Fully qualified employment lawyer in an EU jurisdiction with 8+ years of post-qualification experience, including a solid background in litigation and experience advising technology-driven or platform-based businesses.
• Proven people leadership experience, with hands-on experience leading, coaching, and developing legal professionals in complex, international environments.
• Deep expertise in EU employment law, including hands-on experience coordinating advice across multiple EU jurisdictions and in-depth knowledge of the Platform Workers Directive.
• Strong experience operating in matrix-structured international organizations, with a clear understanding of local, regional, and global governance, reporting, and decision-making dynamics.
• Highly collaborative stakeholder management skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence and work effectively across functions and seniority levels, including without direct reporting lines.
• Full professional proficiency in English (working language) and fluency in at least one additional European language, combined with a pragmatic, hands-on approach and strong sense of ownership.

Additional Information

We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you.

We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just let us know with an email to our Inclusion Officer at [email protected].

Severely disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preferential consideration.

You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.