What You'll Do Avalara's legal team is seeking a vendor legal counsel based in Pune, India. The vendor legal counsel will manage the Legal's vendor management contracting process. One of the position's primary roles is to maintain the contract lifecycle management system (CLM) and assist in building logical contract workflows within that system. Additionally, the vendor legal counsel will work alongside attorneys, paralegals and interns to complete miscellaneous administrative tasks, including following Avalara's vendor playbook to complete vendor legal tickets, processing agreements for signature, maintaining multiple datasheets and trackers, and organizing files and emails. The vendor legal counsel is a permanent position in the legal department with the potential to grow within the company. Reporting to Senior Corporate Counsel. What Your Responsibilities Will Be Job Duties: Follow Avalara's guidelines to complete vendor agreement and non-disclosure agreement ticket requests. Negotiate contracts according to the vendor playbooks, engaging with the vendor and escalating matters to more senior attorneys. Filing and searching for contracts in the CLM. Manage the CLM. Assist in the team's migration to a new CLM. Create and facilitate operational workflows in the CLM. You will Communicate with internal partners about legal requests and the status of contracts, seeking clarification on commercial matters and sign-off on negotiated outcomes. You will Manage administrative requests through a ticketing system. Prepare and send contracts for wet or e-signature. Coordinate, monitoring, and improving key operating systems (internal policies, procedures, checklists, templates, examples, scripts, etc.). Run and report analytical analyses and updating internal databases. You will assist attorneys and interns with miscellaneous legal and administrative tasks. You will Prepare training materials for internal stakeholders and assisting with the training. What You'll Need to be Successful A graduate with a degree in law or similar with 5+ years of experience. Admitted to practice law in the relevant jurisdiction, Experience working as a legal counsel. Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Google Drive, Adobe Pro, AdobeSign, and DocuSign. Experience creating logical processes and workflows, Proficiency with Jira and Ironclad or similar CLM system. #LI-Onsite How We'll Take Care of You Total Rewards In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses. Health & Wellness Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance. Inclusive culture and diversity Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship. Learn more about our benefits by region here: Avalara North America What You Need To Know About Avalara We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech. We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year. Last year, we became a billion-dollar business, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world. We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them. We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too. We’re An Equal Opportunity Employer Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.