Corporate Counsel

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Lead and support ongoing entity management, subsidiary maintenance, and corporate governance matters across multiple jurisdictions.
• Coordinate legal work streams required to operationalize and maintain group entities, including director appointments, statutory registrations, governance filings, local compliance steps, and document execution.
• Partner closely with Finance on entity readiness, tax registrations, payment flows, statutory filings, audit support, and local vendor/advisor coordination.
• Partner closely with HR and People teams on employment onboarding, offer and contract support, benefits coordination, employee transitions, and jurisdiction-specific people processes.
• Partner with payroll teams and vendors to help ensure new entities are operationally ready for payroll go-live and ongoing employment compliance.
• Partner with Stock Administration on equity-related employee matters arising in cross-border hiring, transfers, and local entity transitions, including helping support market-standard equity offerings and related employee communications.
• Support employment-related legal work tied to international hiring, local law requirements, fixed-term arrangements, contractor risk, immigration-dependent transitions, and policy alignment.
• Manage outside counsel, accountants, payroll providers, and local corporate services firms to keep jurisdictional workstreams moving efficiently.
• Translate legal advice into clear internal action items and drive those items to closure with business stakeholders.
• Maintain and improve internal templates, trackers, and playbooks for international expansion and corporate governance matters.
• Drive implementation and ongoing ownership of a compliance tool to improve visibility, tracking, governance hygiene, reminders, and execution across the company’s corporate and compliance obligations.
• Use the compliance tool to streamline recurring governance processes, maintain accurate entity records, and create stronger operational discipline across Legal, Finance, HR, Payroll, and Stock Administration touchpoints.
• Support India-side RBI / FEMA / foreign exchange reporting, documentation, escalation, and remediation items arising from overseas entity activity and cross-border structures.
• Monitor and help implement new regulatory developments across jurisdictions, including employment, payroll, corporate-governance, and compliance changes such as India’s labour codes.
• Help identify and mitigate legal and operational risk in a practical, business-oriented way.

Qualification & Experience  

• Qualified Company Secretary and member of ICSI; law degree or qualification to practice in any jurisdiction is an added advantage.
• 5–10 years of relevant experience in corporate governance, entity management, employment-related operational legal work, and cross-border legal operations.
• Strong experience supporting international expansion, ongoing entity management, and governance/compliance across multiple jurisdictions, including regulated markets such as India, the UK, Singapore, and Australia.
• Practical experience with employee onboarding, payroll readiness, benefits coordination, and equity-related cross-border issues.
• Ability to work closely and effectively with Finance, HR, payroll, tax, stock administration, external counsel, and other professional advisors across regions.
• Strong project management capability, with the ability to independently drive complex, cross-functional workstreams in a fast-moving environment.
• Excellent drafting and communication skills, with the ability to translate legal requirements into practical, executable business processes.
• Experience in a high-growth technology company and comfort operating where legal work is tightly connected to broader business execution.
• Familiarity with legal ops, compliance, and workflow tools, including the use of AI for drafting, research, issue-spotting, knowledge management, tracking, reminders, ownership, reporting, and execution leverage.