Assistant General Counsel - HR Legal

Intuit Inc.; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 223,000 - 328,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a seasoned Assistant General Counsel to join their HR Legal team. In this pivotal role, you will provide strategic legal advice on workforce issues, ensuring compliance while fostering an inclusive workplace culture. You will collaborate with global teams to drive innovative solutions, balancing legal obligations with business needs. This hybrid position emphasizes connection and creativity, allowing you to make a significant impact on workforce strategies. If you are passionate about leveraging your legal expertise to support a dynamic workforce, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Cash Bonus

Equity Rewards

Comprehensive Benefits

Qualifications

• 12+ years advising on global workforce issues, especially in tech.
• Deep experience in employment litigation and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Advise on workforce compliance and legal strategies globally.
• Build partnerships with HR to enhance worker support and outcomes.

Skills

Employment Law

Legal Analysis

Risk Management

Strategic Thinking

Communication Skills

Stakeholder Management

Technology Adoption

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Tools

Legal Research Tools

Job description

Come join Intuit as an Assistant General Counsel, HR Legal. Intuit is rapidly growing, not just in numbers, but also in the complexity of our workforce strategy while consistently delivering world-class employee experiences. Our HR Legal team finds innovative solutions, drives change, enables smart risk, and helps create the best possible experiences for Intuit’s workers, leaders, and the stakeholders we support. We partner closely with our US and global teams to develop and execute on Intuit’s most strategic workforce initiatives. We love finding ways that data and technology can make us and the company better at what we do.

As a senior member of the HR Legal Team, you will partner with our People & Places and other leaders around the world to ensure Intuit’s employment strategy, programs, and policies are structured to accelerate our strategy while complying with the law in all our jurisdictions. You will provide advice and guidance on a wide variety of legal and regulatory matters, as well as strategic business advice in support of Intuit’s workforce strategies. You will build stakeholder empathy by understanding and anticipating the needs of our stakeholders including People & Places and business leaders. We look at challenges as opportunities to find the best outcome for our stakeholders and enable them to take smart risks to paths forward.

We believe diversity and inclusion among our teammates produces better results and is critical to our success as a global company. We are committed to recruiting, developing, and retaining the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

This role is hybrid with on-site expectations of 3 days per week in Mountain View, CA or San Diego, CA. We prioritize being together to promote connection and belonging, creativity and innovation, as well as speed, agility, and productivity to accelerate getting work done.

Responsibilities

• Drive and advise on the end-to-end implementation of workforce compliance issues from issue identification and strategy, ideation, worker experience, policy development, compliance, and operations to support Intuit’s global workforce.
• Provide timely, business-focused advice and counseling in support of our workforce strategies, policies, legal claim management in accordance with evolving global laws and regulations.
• Analyze current international support models, develop, and implement strategy to ensure best in class worker support across Intuit locations.
• Rapidly build trusted and inclusive partnerships with partners in HR centers of excellence and provide clear, data-driven insights to address concerns and reach best outcomes.
• Develop and execute priorities and initiatives for the broader legal, compliance, and policy organization, including new challenges presented by the external environment.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay-for-performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is Bay Area California $242,000 - 327,500 and San Diego $223,000 - $301,500. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

Minimum Requirements

• At least 12 years of experience primarily advising technology companies on complex global workforce issues, including in-house experience.
• Deep employment litigation experience, including international matters.
• Significant experience navigating a wide range of complex employment law issues at a global scale.
• Use inquiry to truly understand needs and advise our HR partners on a range of worker-related issues, from pay equity to complex exits to wage and hour compliance and beyond.
• Demonstrated ability to drive strategic outcomes with minimal supervision.
• Experience providing legal support on a global scale.
• Ability to effectively communicate with business partners about legal obligations and risk management practically and business-backed.
• Ability to learn new technology and tools and implement automated solutions.
• Ability to produce clear and succinct written legal analysis and business communications, and counsel and manage clients, including executive leadership.
• Ability to interact with and lead change with senior executive leaders.
• Ability to effectively frame issues to drive strategic thinking and execution.
• Comfortable and adept at balancing risk and opportunity, and thinking creatively to enable the business to make smart decisions.
• JD and membership in good standing with at least one US State Bar (preferably CA).
• Strong personal ethical code and integrity and deep respect for privacy and confidentiality.
• Alignment with our Legal, Compliance, and Policy Organization ethos, which requires a strong commitment and accountability to the company and each other.