Corporate Counsel
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Job Summary
About Glean:
Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industrys 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 Gleans agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industrys 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.
Recognized by Fast Company as one of the Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Top 10 2025) by CNBCs Disruptor 50 Bloombergs AI Startups to Watch (2026) Forbes AI 50 and Gartners Tech Innovators in Agentic AI Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50 industries and 1000 employees in more than 25 countries were helping the worlds largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.
If youre excited to shape how the world works youll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams Zoom ServiceNow Zendesk GitHub and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. Youll ship agentic capabilities on an open extensible stack with the craft and care required for enterprise trust as we bring Work AI to every employee in every company.
About the Role:
Glean is looking for a high-agency Corporate Counsel to support the companys 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.
This person will help build and operationalize Gleans legal infrastructure across jurisdictions with particular focus on entity management and maintenance employment and onboarding support governance matters and coordination with Finance HR payroll tax and stock administration teams. This role is also expected to help 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 companys 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 Indias 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.
- 510 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. Were 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.
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AI-First Mindset at Glean:
At Glean AI fluency is core to how we work and were committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process youll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about design and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools platforms or workflows you use today prior Glean experience isnt required.
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