Corporate Counsel

Glean; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Glean is seeking a Corporate Counsel to support its international expansion and corporate governance efforts. This role requires a seasoned legal professional who can manage entity maintenance and legal compliance across jurisdictions, particularly in regulated markets like India and the UK.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in corporate governance, excellent project management skills, and familiarity with legal and compliance tools. This hybrid role is based in Glean's Bengaluru office, requiring four in-office days.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of relevant experience in corporate governance and cross-border legal operations.
• Ability to work closely and effectively with Finance, HR, and legal advisors across regions.
• Strong experience in legal processes related to onboarding, payroll, and employee benefits.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support ongoing entity management across multiple jurisdictions.
• Coordinate legal work streams for corporate governance matters.
• Drive implementation of a compliance tool for governance tracking.

Skills

Corporate governance

Entity management

Employment-related legal work

Project management

Communication skills

Education

Qualified Company Secretary

Law degree or qualification

Tools

AI for drafting and research

Compliance tools

Job description

About Glean: Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business – without vendor lock‑in or costly implementation cycles. At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context‑aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities – AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real‑time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level.

About the Role: Glean is looking for a high‑agency Corporate Counsel to support the company’s international expansion, corporate governance, and employment‑related operational legal work. This role is ideal for someone who can combine strong legal judgment with excellent execution and cross‑functional project management. The person will build and operationalize Glean’s legal infrastructure across jurisdictions, focusing on entity management and maintenance, employment and onboarding support, governance matters, and coordination with Finance, HR, payroll, tax, and stock administration teams. The role will also maintain and elevate governance standards in regulated markets, including India, the UK, Singapore, and Australia.

You will:

• 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, and 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.

About you:

• 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.

Location:

• This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Bangalore office).

Compensation & Benefits:

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.