Senior Employment Law Paralegal

Job Overview

Our HR Legal team believes in finding solutions, driving change, taking smart risk, innovating, and creating the best possible experience for the leaders and stakeholders we support. We love data and technology that makes us better at what we do. We leverage our expertise to accelerate Intuit’s strategy and coach our partners to work through problems together to get to the best outcome together.

If that sounds like a good fit to you and you’re an experienced HR or employment paralegal, we want to talk to you. 

This role sits on the HR Legal team with our employment attorneys. The role works closely with teams in our Legal, Compliance, and Policy Org as well as People and Places (HR) and Finance organizations.

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 at least 2 days per week. 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

As the Senior Employment Law Paralegal, you will partner closely with our in-house attorneys, our global HR team, and our network of global law firms. Our world moves fast and is constantly evolving, so every day is different and exciting.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting and coordinating end-to-end litigation management, including matter creation, legal holds, document collection/eDiscovery, and witness preparation
• Implementing and maintaining processes to monitor new laws and developments in the external environment and translating those into actions
• Driving continuous improvement by leveraging best practices and developing repeatable frameworks and building capability in others.
• Establishing process rigor and procedures that help HR Legal be efficient and effective, through technology, methodology, skills, and tools
• Building relationships across broader teams/functions to effectively tackle problems for our stakeholders
• Driving and partnering across teams on moderate to complex HR Legal projects to define project outcomes and create frameworks to deliver business outcomes, making teams more efficient and creating delightful experiences for our stakeholders and customers
• Coaching and teaching other paralegals or program managers about Intuit’s processes, templates and tools in area of expertise
• Understanding what’s most important to the end goal and key priorities and staying focused on that despite other competing priorities and dependencies
• Receiving and giving feedback and coaching as needed across boundaries and functions
• Drafting letters and routine legal documents
• Creating dashboards and other metrics
• Sharing and tracking trends and “closed loop” insights to proactively anticipate issues and continually improve

Qualifications

• 8+ years of paralegal or similar experience at a law firm or in-house with expertise in HR (employment) law
• Well-developed program management skills, including defining program outcomes, preparing project plans and key milestones and managing teams to deliver project goals
• Litigation experience either at an outside law firm or in house
• Deep knowledge of HR legal concepts, terminology and principles including wage and hour and leave laws for example
• Significant experience working with complex data and metrics for reporting or influencing change
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including being able to identify the most relevant information to effectively influence and drive change
• Strong working knowledge of GSuite, spreadsheets, and other database tools
• Data expert able to work with data to draw meaningful insights and communicate findings in a way that’s easy to understand
• A learner and innovator who’s not afraid to try something new, experiment and has a bias for action (try it and learn)
• Someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment with a “can do” and “one team” mentality
• 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 and connecting to others with as humans and colleagues