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T-Hub is the world’s largest home for startups, supporting founders from ideation to scale through programs, partnerships, and global market access while anchoring some of the world’s most significant incubation and innovation initiatives.

It brings together startups, corporates, academic institutions, government bodies, investors, and global markets to build a powerful innovation ecosystem. Through cohort-based programs across sectors, founders gain access to leading mentors, industry partners, and structured support tailored to every stage of growth.

T-Hub plays a distinctive role as an incubator of incubators. It anchors the AIC T-Hub Foundation—one of India’s leading Atal Incubation Centres within a national network of 70+ AICs supported by NITI Aayog. It also anchors India’s largest incubator for the defence open-innovation platform iDEX, hosts MATH, India’s leading Centre of Excellence for AI and ML supported by the Department of Science and Technology, and is home to India’s first Google for Startups Hub.

Spanning over 572,000 square feet, T-Hub provides founders access to world-class infrastructure designed to enable collaboration, experimentation, and scale.

Through these efforts, T-Hub strengthens founders to build globally competitive startups from Telangana for India and the world.

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About T-Hub

T-Hub, the world's largest home for startups, is an innovation enabler that works with startups, corporates, governments, investors, and academia to drive innovation and entrepreneurship at scale. T-Hub is building a vibrant ecosystem that empowers entrepreneurs and organisations to innovate, scale, and create meaningful impact.

T-Hub is looking for a Legal-Manager to independently lead legal operations, contract management, risk mitigation, and intellectual property matters across the organisation.

We're looking for someone who combines strong legal expertise with a business-oriented mindset, can navigate complex agreements and negotiations, and understands the legal requirements of startups and innovation-driven organisations.

Role and Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, MoUs, NDAs, vendor contracts, and program-related agreements.
• Provide legal guidance to business teams, enabling commercial decisions while mitigating legal and financial risks.
• Manage intellectual property matters relevant to startups, including IP ownership, assignment, licensing, protection, and related disputes.
• Represent T-Hub in legal negotiations with clients, vendors, partners, and government stakeholders.
• Standardize legal templates, strengthen contract management processes, and drive legal workflow automation.
• Support startup founders with legal guidance on relevant matters within the innovation ecosystem.
• Identify and mitigate contractual, regulatory, and IP-related risks across business engagements.

Who We're Looking For

• LL.M from a Tier 1 institute with a minimum of 7 years of post-qualification experience.
• Strong experience in contract drafting, negotiation, legal advisory, and governance documentation.
• Mandatory hands-on experience in startup-related intellectual property matters, including IP assignment, ownership, licensing, and IP due diligence.
• Exposure to Section 8 companies, incubators, accelerators, startup ecosystems, or CSR/grant-funded organisations is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools, preferably Zoho Contracts.
• Proficiency in AI tools and legal technology, with a strong service mindset.
• Strong ownership, stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills.

If you enjoy solving complex legal challenges, enabling business growth, and working closely with founders and ecosystem stakeholders, we'd love to hear from you.

Type of Opportunity

Full-time

Country

India

State

Telangana

City

Hyderabad

Address

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Dates to Remember

Apply by 2026-11-12

How to Register?

Apply: https://in.linkedin.com/jobs/view/legal-manager-at-t-hub-4478391114