Specialist Legal

Responsibilities

• Drafting, negotiating, managing internal and external stakeholders, as well as managing external legal advisors assisting the company on such assignments.

• Provide legal advice and opinions on all legal matters that impact the business and provide innovative solutions to minimize/manage the legal risks involved with the company’s business operations in various jurisdictions around the world

• To communicate effectively with internal stakeholders (such as management, leadership teams, Finance, HR, Information Security etc) and external stakeholders (customers/clients, vendors, investor representatives, industry association representatives).

• To constantly improve and evolve the drafts and templates created by the legal team, from learnings from each customer. Strive to simplify drafting in order to achieve quicker turn-around-times and to make legal agreements easier for non-legal stakeholders to understand.

Skills

• The candidate must have an excellent grasp of laws and market practices pertaining to a variety of technology agreements such as SaaS Master Service Agreements, Professional Services Agreements, Software Development Agreements; data protection laws and issues under a contract, intellectual property and other affiliated areas. 

• The candidate should have the ability to work independently and within a team as and when required and must have unimpeachable integrity, honesty and the ability to maintain strict confidentiality.

• The candidate should have excellent verbal and written communication skills in order to communicate with persons across different walks of life and cultures and in order to understand business requirements and communicate the required solutions. 

• Ability to explain contract risks and obligations to non-lawyers.

• Attention to detail, speed, and efficiency in reviewing and drafting documents.

Experience and Qualifications

• 5+ year BA.LLB (Hons) degree from a reputed national law university/college. (Mandatory Requirement) LLM or postgraduate degree in law from a reputed international law university specifically in the field of technology law. (Optional Requirement). 

•  Post Qualification Experience: 7 years In a top tier law firm, preferably within the technology law practice of the firm or at the least some level of experience in technology contracts; and/or As an in-house counsel in a Technology Company (preferably, SaaS however Non-SaaS technology company experience will also be accepted) People with prior experience in law firms, but currently working as in-house counsel will be preferred over people with no prior law firm experience.