About the role

You will independently handle medium- to high-complexity contracting work for US, UK and global clients.

You will also be a domain expert in legal tech and AI work: building playbooks, testing AI tools and helping clients adopt new ways of working.

Key responsibilities

Legal delivery

Contracting: independently draft, review and negotiate medium- to high-complexity agreements, such as MSAs, SOWs, licensing, SaaS, vendor, data-processing and industry-specific contracts.
Risk and escalation: spot non-standard terms, apply client playbooks and fallbacks, and escalate high-risk issues to the Manager with a clear recommendation.
Quality: act as second-level reviewer for associates’ work and meet SLAs, turnaround and accuracy targets.

Client engagement

Join and lead working-level calls with client legal and business teams and with counterparties in the US, UK and other regions.
Help maintain playbooks, templates and clause libraries, and suggest updates based on negotiation trends.

Team leadership

If required, lead a team of 1-3 Legal Associates: allocate work, review output, give feedback and run training.
Support the Manager with reporting, capacity planning and onboarding of new clients or workstreams.

Legal tech and AI

Support legal tech and AI implementations as a domain expert: translate playbooks into AI rules, test and validate AI output, and take part in UAT.
Use CLM and AI tools in daily delivery and recommend ways to automate repetitive work.
Help explain tools and new processes to client users and the internal team.

LLB / LLM from a recognised university; enrolment with the Bar Council of India preferred.
5+ years in commercial / contract law with a law firm, in-house legal team, ALSP / LPO, or Big Four legal practice.
Ability to independently draft, review and negotiate medium- to high-complexity contracts with limited supervision.
Experience supporting US, UK or global clients and working across time zones.
Experience reviewing others’ work, mentoring juniors or leading a small team.
Working knowledge of CLM or AI contract review tools, and interest in legal tech and AI implementation.
Excellent written and spoken English and attention to detail.

Preferred skills and tools

CLM and AI tools: Icertis, Ironclad, Agiloft, DocuSign CLM, Leah, Luminance, Microsoft Copilot.
Experience in contract abstraction, obligation management or contract migration projects.
Prompt-writing or playbook-building experience for GenAI tools.

Senior Legal Associate

Key skills