Details of the Organization

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Zeta was named by Celent in 2023 as being among the likeliest partners for US banks and credit unions looking to modernize to a next-gen issuer processing platform. With our marquee credit card ranked #2 by American cardholders, Zeta is already acknowledged by leading issuers as the go-to platform for market-leading credit card experiences.

Globally, Zeta is recognized as a next-gen banking technology company. Our platform enables financial institutions to launch extensible and compliant banking asset and liability products, across cards, loans and deposits, rapidly. Our cloud-native and fully API-enabled stack supports processing, issuing, lending, core banking, fraud, loyalty, digital banking apps, and many other capabilities.

Zeta has 1700+ employees with over 70% in technology roles across locations in the US, Middle East, and Asia, with regional headquarters in Mumbai, India. Globally, customers have issued 25M+ cards on our platform. Visit us at www.zeta.tech or follow us on LinkedIn, YouTube, and X.

Details of the Job/Internship

We are looking for an Associate level legal professional who can act as a trusted business advisor who works collaboratively across business, sales, and other functions and has the knowledge and experience required to take on a variety of legal assignments, such as employment law advisory, intellectual property advisory and portfolio management, transactional support and assistance, SaaS Agreements with potential customers of Zeta, and agreements with SaaS Vendors who provide SaaS to Zeta for internal consumption or integration within Zeta’s SaaS Offerings.

Location: Mumbai/Bangalore

Role and 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.

Eligibility

• 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: 4 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.

Type of Opportunity

Full-time

Country

India

State

Maharashtra

City

Mumbai

Address

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Dates to Remember

Apply by 2026-11-15

How to Register?

Apply: https://in.linkedin.com/jobs/view/associate-legal-at-zeta-4478844625