MSCI Inc.Mumbai Metropolitan RegionHybridFull-time4+ years
Listing expiry: 24 October 2026
About the role
Role Overview
Join the commercial legal team supporting technology and data agreements across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. The role focuses on negotiating complex commercial contracts, supporting new product offerings, and integrating AI tools into legal workflows.
Key Responsibilities
- Negotiate complex technology and data agreements, including data licences, Software-as-a-Service arrangements, financial product licences, managed services agreements, and redistribution arrangements, primarily under New York law.
- Develop a strong understanding of the company's AI capabilities, contracts, products, risk tolerances, policies, and practices.
- Collaborate with colleagues to design and implement contract templates and provisions for new product offerings.
- Use and contribute to the development of AI systems as an integral part of legal work.
- Undertake other legal projects, team responsibilities, and assignments as they arise.
Qualifications & Experience
- Hold a law degree and a licence to practise law.
- Have a minimum of four years of experience working in-house or at a premier law firm.
- Be able to negotiate a high volume of complex agreements carefully and efficiently.
- Demonstrate strong project management and organisational skills, including the ability to manage multiple deals and projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Have experience negotiating complex technology and intellectual property transactions.
- Show initiative, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a proactive willingness to learn new business areas.
- Demonstrate strong listening, communication, drafting, and attention-to-detail skills.
- Be able to build and maintain effective relationships with clients and colleagues.
- Experience in financial services, intellectual property advisory work, or mergers and acquisitions is helpful.
Additional Details
- The role is part of the AI Contract Team and involves collaboration with commercial legal teams across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
- No programming experience is necessary, but candidates should demonstrate self-directed adoption of new technology, tools or processes they have learned independently, or workflow improvements they have developed. Experience using AI tools in live legal work is desirable.
- The employer describes flexible working arrangements, employee benefits tailored to location, learning and development resources, and opportunities for career growth.
- The employer states that it is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.