Head of Legal

Industry- Software Company

Role- AGM Legal

Experience: 8–12 Years (post-qualification)

Location: Bangalore

Role: AGM/DGM – Legal (Head of Legal & Company Secretarial)

• Senior in-house Legal leader who has headed or co-led the Legal function, not only worked as an individual contributor.
• LLB / LLM from a top 10 law school in India. This is mandatory.
• Background preferably in a leading technology, SaaS, consumer internet or high-growth organisation.
• Strong, hands-on experience across commercial contracts, corporate law, intellectual property, litigation and corporate governance.
• Should have handled strategic transactions and day-to-day business advisory with a commercially minded, business-enabling approach, not only a risk-averse one.
• Should have managed an IP portfolio and overseen litigation, disputes and external counsel.
• Good working knowledge of data privacy, including the DPDP framework. Should be able to lead DPDP compliance and privacy advisory across the organisation.
• Experience building a legal and regulatory risk framework (identify, assess, mitigate), including labour law and employment-related compliance.
• Should be able to lead or oversee the Company Secretarial function: Board and shareholder matters, statutory compliances and governance.
• Proven team leadership: has managed a team (team size is 4–6) and driven process improvement, standardisation and use of legal tech.
• Strong executive presence, commercial judgement, communication and negotiation skills; comfortable partnering with senior management and business heads.
• Good to have: exposure to fintech / financial services regulations, and handling legal and regulatory matters across multiple international jurisdictions.