Senior Associate Legal

Listing expiry: 21 October 2026

About the role

Role Overview

The role provides in-house legal support across employment law, intellectual property, commercial transactions, and technology agreements. It involves advising business teams, drafting and negotiating SaaS and other technology contracts, managing internal and external stakeholders and legal advisers, and improving legal templates and processes. The position requires strong knowledge of technology contracts, data protection, intellectual property, and relevant legal and market practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Draft, negotiate, and manage legal assignments involving employment law advisory, intellectual property advisory and portfolio management, transactional support, and technology agreements.
• Draft and negotiate SaaS agreements with potential customers and agreements with SaaS vendors supplying services for internal use or integration into the company's offerings.
• Manage internal and external stakeholders and coordinate with external legal advisers.
• Provide legal advice and opinions on matters affecting business operations across different jurisdictions, identifying solutions to minimise or manage legal risks.
• Communicate effectively with management, leadership teams, Finance, HR, Information Security, customers, vendors, investor representatives, and industry association representatives.
• Continuously improve legal drafts and templates based on learnings from customer engagements.
• Simplify contract drafting to improve turnaround times and make legal agreements easier for non-legal stakeholders to understand.
• Explain contractual risks and obligations to non-lawyers.

Qualifications & Experience

• A five-year BA LL.B. (Hons) degree from a reputed national law university or college is mandatory.
• An LL.M. or postgraduate law degree from a reputed international law university, specifically in technology law, is optional.
• Post Qualification Experience: 7 years
• Experience in a top-tier law firm, preferably in technology law or technology contracts, and/or as in-house counsel in a technology company; SaaS company experience is preferred, but experience with a non-SaaS technology company is also accepted.
• Candidates with prior law-firm experience who currently work as in-house counsel are preferred over candidates without prior law-firm experience.
• Excellent understanding of laws and market practices relating to technology agreements, including SaaS Master Service Agreements, Professional Services Agreements, and Software Development Agreements.
• Knowledge of data protection laws and contractual data protection issues, intellectual property, and related areas.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, with unimpeachable integrity, honesty, and strict confidentiality.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to understand business requirements and explain appropriate legal solutions across different cultures and professional backgrounds.
• Strong attention to detail, speed, and efficiency in reviewing and drafting documents.

Additional Details

• The employer is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace.
• Artificial intelligence tools may support parts of the hiring process, including application and resume review and assessment of responses or potential inconsistencies. These tools assist recruiters but do not replace human judgment, and final hiring decisions are made by people.
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