Senior Legal Counsel

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Legal Counsel with 4+ years of experience in corporate/commercial law to join our team in India, specializing in enterprise SaaS business. This role is full-time and requires meaningful overlap with the UK and US business day.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise contract negotiation: Lead negotiations directly with large enterprise counterparties, from engagement through redlining to close, explaining standard terms and holding the company’s fall-back positions on complex, high-value deals.
• Commercial contracting: Draft, review, and negotiate MSAs, order forms, SOWs, NDAs, and DPAs across England & Wales, New York, and Swiss-governed paper, supporting deals sold through the UK and US entities.
• India entity legal & compliance: Act as legal point of contact for the India entity, covering employment-law matters, local statutory and regulatory compliance, and entity-level legal support.
• Legal framework and playbooks: Own, maintain, and optimize standard templates, fall-back positions, contract policies, and the contract-management system; drive continuous improvement.
• Vendor and procurement contracts: Review and negotiate inbound supplier, SaaS, professional-services, and confidentiality agreements.
• Data privacy and InfoSec: Handle data-protection matters (including GDPR-governed obligations), negotiate DPAs, and support InfoSec policy management and customer security requirements.
• IP protection: Support IP protection, assignment, and related strategy.
• AI enablement: Embed AI tooling across legal review, triage, drafting, and contract analysis, and help shape the company’s approach to AI-related legal and regulatory questions.

Requirements

• Required:

  • Qualified lawyer with excellent academic credentials, qualified to advise on England & Wales, New York Law. England & Wales qualification is the target profile; equivalent demonstrable experience drafting and negotiating under E&W law will also be considered.
  • 4+ years’ PQE in a corporate/commercial team at a leading firm and/or comparable in-house environment.
  • Proven experience leading negotiations directly with Western / international enterprise counterparties through to close - not solely reviewing or marking up documents.
  • Multi-governing-law commercial drafting - comfortable working across more than one of England & Wales, New York, and Swiss law.
  • Working knowledge of Indian employment law and local statutory compliance (India bar enrolment is not required).
  • Working knowledge of our other locations, Mexico, UK, Japan, US.
  • Strong commercial drafting across MSAs, DPAs, and NDAs, plus sound data-privacy knowledge for the SAAS industry.
  • Genuinely independent and self-sufficient - able to own the function with minimal day-to-day UK oversight.
  • Excellent written and spoken English; clear communicator with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Willing and able to work hours with meaningful overlap with the UK and US business day.

• Desirable:

  • Experience with AI - a significant plus - whether using AI tools within legal workflows, or advising on AI legal/regulatory frameworks.
  • US (New York State) qualification and/or experience under Swiss-governed contracts.
  • Prior in-house experience in a SaaS / enterprise software business serving Western enterprise clients.
  • Breadth across IP and InfoSec policy management.

We Offer

• Own and run an established legal function with real autonomy - your decisions carry weight and are visible to the leadership team.
• Broad, varied mandate spanning commercial, data privacy, employment, IP, and InfoSec across multiple jurisdictions.
• A genuinely AI-forward environment: you are expected and supported to build AI into how legal work gets done.
• Hybrid working, modern equipment, and a personal professional-development budget.
• 32 days of holidays (this includes public and religious holidays)
• Contributions to your Provident Fund which can be matched by the company above the statutory minimum as agreed
• Gratuity payments
• Private Medical Insurance provided by the company (Employee + Spouse + 2 Children + 2 Parents)
• 12 Weeks Paid Paternity Leave, 6 months Maternity leave
• Support with childcare costs (50%)
• Work from Home Equipment allowance
• Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w
• Flexible Work from Long Distance - 4 weeks a year
• Sponsored Learning Opportunities
• Team Socials

About the Company

BlueOptima provides industry-leading objective metrics in software development using its proprietary Coding Effort Analytics, enabling large organizations to deliver better software, faster, and at lower cost. Founded in 2006, BlueOptima is a profitable, independent software company whose core technology was originally devised in research carried out at Cambridge University.

Headquartered in London, UK, BlueOptima operates through subsidiaries and offices across the UK, India, Mexico, the United States, and Japan. Its technology is deployed by global enterprises - including Fortune 50 companies, major global banks, and leading S&P constituents - to drive value from their software development activities, running complex analytics over very large source-code data sets.

BlueOptima is an Equal Opportunities employer.

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