Corporate Governance Specialist

✨ One platform, a whole world of opportunity 

Right now, the best jobs are limited to people in a handful of the world’s wealthiest cities, yet brilliant people are everywhere. Driven to overturn the status quo and distribute opportunities equally around the world, Oyster launched its global employment platform to help companies hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere. 

When it comes to global employment, we walk the walk. We’re proof that companies don't need an office to create a highly-engaged culture. Since the company’s inception in January 2020, Oyster has:

Our momentum speaks to the power of global employment—and we’re just getting started! If you want to change the world with Oyster and be empowered to work remotely while doing so, we’d love for you to apply! 

👩‍💻 The Role

Location: To create the best experience for this employee and to meet the business needs, this role requires you to be based within India with the required right-to-work status.

We are looking for a high-performing specialist to join our Corporate Governance team who can assist in keeping up with the demands of a growing global HR/tech company.  In this role, you will be working with members of Legal’s Governance Team and our outsourced entity management partner, primarily handling things related to corporate governance, along with other responsibilities, all of which will require critical thinking, innovation, and integrity. Being a fully distributed company, you will work synchronously and asynchronously with team members all over the world. We are looking for someone with wonderful attention to detail, strong multi-task skills, high energy, a positive attitude, and no camera shyness.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the Governance Manager, the Coordinator will keep Oyster’s subsidiaries, up and running. This will include, but certainly is not limited to:

• Assisting outside vendor with corporate entity creation and management tasks
• Working with various external and internal teams to maintain corporate governance-related databases and information and contribute to the organization’s single source of truth by ensuring accurate documentation.
• Coordinating filings and documentation related to company secretarial services, directorship and registered address
• Coordinating contract and document signatures using company’s preferred electronic signature software
• Performing various administrative tasks (scheduling, meeting management, etc.)
• Assisting with legal escalations including responding to inquiries from internal business stakeholders regarding our corporate subsidiaries
• Working cross-functionally to fulfill Oyster's Mission and Vision
• Build and maintain strong relationships within the Legal department and with cross-functional departments

Core Requirements

We are looking for someone bright, energetic, and a self-starter. The successful candidate will be able to handle any responsibility assigned, who can successfully work on their own but is also not afraid to ask for help.

• Prior experience in risk, compliance, or governance role is required
• Organized and detail-oriented, with excellent communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-output environment
• Proactive and uses independent judgment
• Demonstrates enthusiasm for solving problems and adding value to the company
• Demonstrates the ability to adapt to unforeseen challenges while maintaining high-quality output.
• Displays a customer-centric mindset, ensuring internal stakeholders’ needs are met with urgency and professionalism.
• Be competent. Be unquestionably ethical. Have humility. Work hard. Celebrate wins. 
• [BONUS] Experience with remote work
• [BONUS] Prior experience in a corporate legal department or entity management group, a plus
• [BONUS] Proficient in Google Suite of products (Gmail, Google Doc, Google Sheets)
• [BONUS] Experience with Entity Management software preferred (e.g., Klea, or the like)
• [BONUS] Familiarity with a client relationship management system (such as Zendesk, Salesforce, ServiceNow) a plus
• [BONUS] Electronic signature software experience preferred (e.g., HelloSign, DocuSign)
• [BONUS] Working in Notion and Asana very helpful 

You'll also need

• A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one)
• Fluent English language skills

🦪 How we work together at Oyster

Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes us special. We elevate talent. 🙌  We build trust. 🤝 We thrive together. 🌍

Our mission is to create a more equal world—one global hire at a time. Everything we do ladders up to our mission—and that doesn’t just mean building software. We develop programs, participate in workshops, and create dedicated teams to ensure we successfully support companies and knowledge workers in this new world of work. 

We embrace asynchronous communication and collaborative work—and we share how we work in the Oyster Public HQ —to help other global teams learn from our experiences.

💌  How YOU work

Different countries have different statutory benefits, different cultures have different norms, and different people have different needs! In order to best support and encourage our diverse team, we’ve created How YOU Work; a program of policies, practices, and perks to support your whole human experience as an employee at Oyster.

• Work from anywhere: Oyster is a borderless, HQ-less company. As long as your work gets done on time, your team has the support they need, and you're authorized to work where you live, the world is truly your Oyster.
• Paid time off: We’re all about taking breaks—we all need it. Oyster provides employees with 40 days off each year, which includes public/bank holidays and vacation/holiday leave (unless your country mandates more).
• Mental health support: We consider your mental health a top priority. We offer access to Plumm, a mental well-being service, to support your mental health.
• Wellbeing allowance:  Each month, Oyster will top up your ThanksBen wallet with a wellbeing allowance. You can get pretty much anything that your heart desires! ThanksBen offers a wide array of options for spending your wellbeing allowance. Check out their benefits catalogue here for inspiration.
• Flexible parental leave: Families are created in lots of different ways. Our parental leave policy applies to all employees who are becoming parents, regardless of how they become a parent. Oysters are eligible for a minimum of three months of paid parental leave and your job will be held for 12 months (or longer if required by local jurisdiction).
• WFH stipend: Stipend to spend on your laptop and any other equipment you need for your home office; we'll get you up and running in no time!

✨ The best jobs should be available to everyone 

At Oyster, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences and we’ve intentionally built our product and our company with an inclusive, global mindset. We know from experience that people from underrepresented groups often don’t apply for roles they don’t feel they meet all the criteria for. We’re committed to elevating talent by creating a trust-based environment where we can all thrive together. So if you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily check every single box, please consider applying. We’d love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team.

Oyster is committed to ensuring equal opportunity of employment for qualified persons with disabilities and actively fosters an inclusive work environment. If you require reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process, please email jobs@oysterhr.com with the subject line: Interview Accommodations.

Our available positions are published on our careers page and should you be invited to interview with us, our recruitment team will only ever contact you directly from an @oysterhr.com email address. We will never ask you to send us money as part of a job offer. If you receive a suspicious email relating to opportunities at Oyster from any other email domain where someone is claiming to be a part of our recruitment team, or are directed to anywhere other than www.oysterhr.com/careers to view our available jobs we encourage you to submit a report through our Compliance and Ethics Helpline.