Seclore, Mumbai is expanding its legal team and inviting applications from legal professionals across India for the Legal Consultant job role.
About Seclore, Mumbai
They are global leaders in the Data-Centric Security space. Right from protecting nuclear submarine designs to new drug formulations to customer data of Fortune 100 organisations – we guard every kind of confidential information.
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Role and Responsibilities of the Legal Consultant
In order to support the legal team of a quickly growing tech company, we are looking for individuals who are ready to take on the following responsibilities:
- Advising and supporting various business teams (e.g. Sales, Marketing, Engineering, IT-procurement and HR) in the review, negotiation, and closure of various contracts.
- Participating in negotiations with customers and vendors and ensuring conformance with internal contracting requirements and risk identification & mitigation.
- Provide general legal advice and support to the various departments, such as marketing, product development, human resources, IT etc.
- Work with external Legal Counsels from time to time regarding specific matters.
- Proactively identifying key issues and risks during negotiations and raising them to the attention of the supervising attorney
- Developing relationships with various business units and functional departments and developing an understanding of their strategies and objections to serving the company’s needs better
- Creating and maintaining template agreements and refining contract processes and forms
- Supporting the Legal team in drafting, implementing, and enforcing legal and compliance policies
- Assisting in other matters as may be requested
- Advising teams on intellectual property and technology-related legal issues including compliance with data protection and privacy laws, and online and email marketing rules.
Eligibility for the Legal Consultant job
- Bachelor’s degree in law
- 3 – 5 years of professional work experience as an in-house counsel of an IT company.
- Ability to independently draft and close technology-related and other commercial agreements such as NDAs, SaaS, Software licenses, Service Agreements etc.
- Stronghold over Intellectual Property and technology laws of India/ and the US
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, and people management, including the ability to work effectively with the business teams
- Proactive, with excellent research, and analytical skills and should be able to exercise judgment and discretion to opine on legal issues effectively
- Understanding and prior experience in managing US legal affairs would be preferred
- Able to understand and talk about technology
- A self-starter who is comfortable working independently on day-to-day requirements and paperwork of a lean legal department
- The candidate must have excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to take initiative, adapt quickly to changing priorities and work with a high sense of urgency across a variety of matters
- Distinctive problem-solving and analytical skills combined with effective business judgment.
Location
- Mumbai, Maharashtra
How to apply?
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