Director - Legal

Every day will bring new challenges and you can expect to be extremely busy. We are relying on you to stay organized and project manage a demanding workload. **Key Responsibilities:** - Ability to lead a commercial legal negotiation, understanding how to balance key risks and opportunities in order to obtain a mutually acceptable contract in a way that will not alienate customers or vendors. - Draft, review, interpret, revise, and negotiate terms of SaaS customer agreements, vendor and service provider contracts, real estate leases, and professional services agreements. - Demonstrate capabilities in anticipating legal issues, accepting and effectively resolving sensitive legal projects, handling difficult situations diplomatically and independently. - Collaborate with various business functions in connection with driving deal negotiations. - Advise sales management of contractual rights and obligations and provide clarification of contract terms and conditions. - Provide legal advice on a wide range of commercial matters, including intellectual property, data protection/privacy, regulatory compliance, and employment law. - Manage and mitigate legal risks by designing and implementing company policies and procedures. - Be responsible for India corporate governance and compliance. - Conduct legal research and stay updated on relevant laws and regulations affecting the company's business. - Assist with mergers and acquisitions, including performing due diligence and managing post-acquisition integration. - Develops and implements compliance training methodologies, including writing and enhancing training materials. - Ensure compliance and assist on issues related to privacy and data protection laws. - Advise Human Resources on a variety of employee matters, including internal investigations, POSH, employment, and non-compete/IP assignment agreements. - Identify and analyze legal issues and risks, review and draft legal and corporate governance agreements. - Handle regional litigation and disputes. - Identify and analyze legal issues and risks, review and draft miscellaneous legal contracts, present clear recommendations, and ensure legal compliance across the full spectrum of legal issues facing the company. - All other duties as assigned. **Qualifications Required:** - LLB from an accredited law school; must be licensed to practice law. - At least 16 years of relevant experience; in-house preferred. - Experience managing a team while also remaining individually responsible for a full workload of negotiations and other matters. - Strong interpersonal and organizational skills and able to work well independently and with a team. - Commitment to bring practical and commercially-oriented judgment to bear in solving legal problems. - Sound business acumen and knowledge of the business goals and objectives as they relate to the legal matter at hand. - A problem solver who is action-oriented and possesses a strong sense of execution and client relationship skills. - Strong multitasking skills to be able to move and track multiple projects to completion. - Self-starter with the ability to work under pressure, manage multiple projects and competing priorities, meet deadlines, and adapt to change within a growing company. - Exceptional attention to detail is essential. - Demonstrated experience establishing credibility and rapport with executive-level management. - Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills. - Commitment to stay current on all laws and regulations relating to software as a service and B2B technology. - High level of integrity and professional ethics.,