Corporate Counsel

Overview:
Avalara is seeking an entrepreneurial lawyer to support Avalara’s fast-growing, global SaaS business. Avalara’s legal department is looking to add another employment attorney to its client-focused group with a strong emphasis on providing exceptional legal advice and advancing the company’s business goals. This team values collaboration, creativity, ownership, and high-quality work product and is dedicated to the professional development of its members.

This new position, Corporate Counsel, Employment, is responsible for assisting with the management and handling of labour and employment-related matters at Avalara Technologies Private Limited (Avalara, Inc’s India-based subsidiary).

**Responsibilities**:
This position will be based in-person out of our Pune, India, office and have the following key responsibilities with respect to labour and employment law in India:

- Advise and assist the India People & Culture (HR) team with a wide range of day-to-day labour and employment-related matters including grievances, performance and disciplinary management, investigations, and other disputes.
- Draft and review notices, letters, policies, agreements, and other personnel-related documents.
- Review and advise on development and maintenance of employment policies and procedures, primarily those required for compliance with India labour and employment laws.
- Support other members of the legal team, outside counsel, and the People & Culture team to develop and revise policies and practices for managing employee-related matters in India.
- Identify and assess legal issues and provide guidance on appropriate action.
- Partner cross-functionally with various teams across Avalara such as People & Culture, Finance, Payroll, and IT/Security.
- With limited supervision, handle straightforward legal matters and legal questions, as assigned.
- Follow through to execution, while recognizing when to elevate certain matters to the attention of their manager or Avalara's General Counsel.
- Monitor and research India labour and employment laws and stay up-to-date on new and changing laws and regulations.
- Manage India-based outside counsel on employment-related matters.
- Understand best practices, what is customary, and what is legally required, and identify practical solutions.

Avalara attorneys routinely provide direction, work in partnership with others, and must have the following attributes:

- Enthusiastic, intellectually curious, and hard working.
- Strong team player who enjoys working with and supporting other members of the Legal department and employees across the company in different geographies.
- Ability to work independently and take ownership.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and influence skills.
- Flexibility to work in multiple legal disciplines and adaptable to changing business needs.
- Strong analytical skills and judgment.
- Excellent organization.
- Ability to prioritize and manage workload.
- Urgency to follow through and meet deadlines.
- Desire to facilitate the success of others.

Qualifications:
**Minimum Qualifications**
- JD, LLB, or equivalent degree.
- Admitted to practice law and in good standing in the jurisdiction in which position is located.
- Substantive employment law experience in India which may include internships or externships.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience in counseling SaaS businesses on labour and employment matters.
- Experience at a US-based company and collaboration with employment counsel in different regions.

About Avalara:
**About Avalara**:
We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.

Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.

**Equal Opportunities**: