InHouse Legal Counsel

What you'll do

• Commercial contracting (50%)

• Draft, review, and negotiate core agreements: vendor/supplier contracts, SaaS/tech agreements, NDAs, marketing service contracts, partnership agreements, and SLAs.
• Provide practical, business-friendly advice to sales, procurement, and product teams on risk, liability, IP, and compliance.
• Maintain basic templates and ensure smooth contract intake and closure with minimal friction.

• Company secretarial compliance (20%)

• Support board/shareholder resolutions, filings, and registers under the Companies Act with external CS teams.
• Ensure compliance with applicable sector specific laws to the products that the team is building, POSH, and other routine statutory obligations.
• Keep records of key approvals, policies, and filings; assist in fundraising due diligence.
• Working familiarity with Indian labour laws including ESIC, Gratuity, Contract Labour, and Industrial Dispute) and ability to coordinate with HR/external counsel on employment-related queries.
• Experience handling POSH compliance and providing basic guidance on employee terminations, workplace policies, and labour authority notices in Gujarat.

• Tech law data privacy (20%)

• Draft/review data privacy clauses, DPDP Act addenda, and IT/tech terms of use.
• Advise product/tech teams on user agreements, TCs, privacy policies, cookie policies, and advertising/IT/telecom regulations.
• Track SEA regional data protection developments and align contracts/policies accordingly.

• Dispute pre-litigation (10%)

• Draft/reply to legal notices; coordinate with Gujarat-based counsels for MSME, arbitration, consumer, labour, or commercial disputes.
• Manage evidence collation, external counsel communication, and strategy notes for early settlement.

• LL.B.

  from a recognised university; enrolment with State Bar Council. (CS preferred but not mandatory.)

• 2 3 years

  PQE in a law firm or in-house legal team with contract drafting exposure.
• Working knowledge of Companies Act filings, board/shareholder compliance, and coordinating with external CS/counsels.
• Experience advising on tech laws, IT contracts, and data protection and privacy laws (DPDP Act 2023, privacy policies, user terms).
• Familiarity with pre-litigation steps and coordination of Gujarat dispute matters.
• Proactive, organised, and a self-starter able to set up simple legal processes from scratch.
• Strong written spoken English; Hindi/Gujarati fluency is a plus.