Job Description
Chegg is seeking a qualified law professional with 5-7 years of experience to join its legal team in India. This person will support the Human Resources organization in India, as well as work with the Chegg India Legal Counsel on day-to-day legal operations, including assisting with corporate compliance, drafting vendor contracts, and working closely with Legal, Human Resources, Finance, Engineering, and other business teams. This role will report to the Assistant General Counsel, Labor, Employment & Litigation in the U.S., with a dotted line to the Senior Legal Counsel in India.
Location: Delhi, India.
Essential Job Functions:
Work closely with HR and provide pragmatic advice on a broad array of employment-related matters, including hiring, diversity and inclusion, employee relations, performance management, leaves of absence, compensation, benefits, and terminations
Review and revise employment policies and practices on a regular basis, and provide recommendations on compliance
Assist and advise on internal investigations conducted by Human Resources
Organize and create training materials for internal clients as they relate to legal processes and procedures
Independently manage pre-litigation claims and agency charges and litigation, sometimes with the assistance of external counsel
Be a proactive member of the legal team assisting in the timely intake and response to internal client requests, distribution and collection of contract documents and project support documents for review by the Operations and Corporate Attorney and other members of the Legal Department
Interpret and apply contracting principles, applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures
Prepare, compile and conduct initial review of contract documents and proposed amendments; make modifications or redlines to various department contracts, including but not limited to, IT contracts, consulting agreements, vendor contracts, supplier contracts, partner agreements, and real estate leases
Track and maintain company contracts, including but not limited to HR/recruitment agreements, real estate leases, non-disclosure agreements, and IT/technology agreements
Updating and maintenance of legal dockets, logs, and spreadsheets
Organize and prepare various legal reports
Communicate effectively both orally and in writing
Deliver excellent customer service to internal and external clients
Establish and maintain effective relationships in the course of work
Other duties as may be assigned from time to time
Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's in law degree required
Employment Law background and experience preferred, or Company Secretary experience
Experience working for a U.S. headquartered/MNC Company is preferred
Excellent communication and written skills
Good business acumen, judgment, and discretion
Word, Excel and Adobe Acrobat Experience required
Why do we exist
Students are working harder than ever before to stabilize their future. Our recent research study called State of the Student shows that nearly 3 out of 4 students are working to support themselves through college and 1 in 3 students feel pressure to spend more than they can afford. We founded our business on provided affordable textbook rental options to address these issues. Since then, we've expanded our offerings to supplement many facets of higher educational learning through Chegg Study, Chegg Math, Chegg Writing, Chegg Internships, Thinkful Online Learning, and more to support students beyond their college experience. These offerings lower financial concerns for students by modernizing their learning experience. We exist so students everywhere have a smarter, faster, more affordable way to student.
About Us
What is Chegg
An always on digital learning platform.
Chegg puts students firstEverything we build in this company is student-focused, making us the leading student-first connected learning platform. Chegg strives to improve the overall return on investment in education by helping students learn more in less time and at a lower cost. This is achieved by providing students a multitude of educational tools from affordable textbook rentals to Chegg Study which supplements their learning through 24/7 tutor access, step-by-step help with questions, and more.
Chegg is a publicly-held company based in Santa Clara, California and trades on the NYSE under the symbol CHGG.
