Director, Counsel - HR

Job Overview

Position Description: Director, Deputy General Counsel, Employment Law

Overview:

Intuit is a global platform company that is on a mission to power prosperity around the world for consumers, small businesses and the self-employed. Across our four leading brands – Turbo Tax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp – Intuit serves over 100M customers and is one of the few companies in the world to have both a thriving consumer and small business ecosystem. Intuit is known for its innovation track record, customer centricity, and its consistent recognition as a top place to work. 

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.

Reporting to our Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, the Director, Deputy General Counsel, HR Legal will partner closely with our People & Places (P&P) leaders to create and drive Intuit’s employment strategy, programs, and policies, and ensure they are structured to accelerate our business priorities - including AI, DEI, and Tech Transformation - while complying with the law in all our jurisdictions. 

A critical component of success will be in building stakeholder empathy by understanding and anticipating their needs. This leader will be expected to advise on highly sensitive and confidential employment situations and regulatory matters that enable stakeholders to take smart risks.

Responsibilities

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 
• Partner with senior leaders to develop strategies related to our workforce, policies, Big Bets, legal claims and provide related business-focused guidance consistent with evolving global laws and regulations. 
• Analyze current international support models, develop, and implement strategies to ensure best in class worker support across Intuit locations
• Rapidly build trusted and inclusive partnerships with partners in HR centers of excellence and provides clear, data-driven insights to address concerns and reach best outcomes
• Develop and execute priorities and initiatives for the broader legal, compliance, and policy organizations

Qualifications

Qualifications:

Experience: 

• At least 15 years of dedicated  legal employment experience, with recency in an executive position 
• Experience advising F500 technology corporations on complex global workforce issues. A mix of firm-side and in-house experience is preferred
• Significant experience navigating a wide range of complex employment law issues at a global scale 
• Deep employment litigation experience
• Significant and demonstrated partnership with People organizations
• Demonstrated experience in establishment of internal legal practices/programs that accelerate business and people priorities
• JD and membership in good standing with the California Bar

Capabilities:

• Strong understanding of HR processes, (performance ratings, pay for performance compensation initiatives, promotion processes, and succession planning), and experience with the end-to-end employee experience
• Strategy creation – ability to conduct research and benchmarking activities and turn them into strategic plans and programming
• Change leadership at scale - proven ability to drive behavior change at all levels in an organization
• Organizational Resourcefulness – ability to navigate complexity and thrive in a fast paced and changing environment using strong judgment and decision-making skills
• Strong Interpersonal Communication Skills - Comfortable communicating and partnering effectively across global organizational boundaries through multiple mechanisms – email, verbal updates, powerpoint presentations, zoom meetings, etc.
• High Accountability – own team outcomes and drive a high performing team in a demanding environment with competing or overlapping priorities
• Strong Analytical skills- with the ability to interpret data and translate into actionable insights, recommendations, and action plans