Senior Legal Associate

About Chargebee: Chargebee is the leading Revenue Growth Management (RGM) platform for subscription businesses. Thousands of companies at every stage of development - from startups to enterprises - use Chargebee to unlock revenue growth, experiment with new offerings and monetization models, and maintain global compliance as they scale. Chargebee counts businesses like Freshworks, Calendly, and amongst its global customer base and is proud to have been named a Leader in Subscription Management by G2 for five consecutive years, as well as a Great Place to Work in both the United States and India. We are backed by some of the most respected investors in the world; Accel, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Steadview Capital, and Sapphire Venture, who believe in the magic of subscriptions and the world that they can create - from cars to coffee pods and everything in between. Our 1000+ team members work remotely throughout the world, including in India, Europe, and the US. About the Role: Chargebee is looking for a Senior Legal Associate who thrives in a high-volume, fast-paced, high-performing, and collaborative environment. You will work collaboratively with Legal, Finance, Operations, Sales, IT, and Customer Success to resolve contract-related issues. You have a strong work ethic and flexibility and are comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy and ambiguity. You are a pro-active legal professional with a penchant for helping to build a business and have a strong bias for action. You feel comfortable working in a fast paced international and multi-cultural environment and enjoy working across multiple internal company disciplines. You are curious about complex technology and strive to be a highly visible key component in a rapidly expanding business that deals with some of the largest enterprises in the world. Reporting to the Associate General Counsel, the Senior Legal Associate will be responsible for the following: - Conducting an in-depth review of contracts and related documents so that contractual terms and conditions comply with standard or approved business practices, corporate legal, finance and risk management requirements. - Ensuring that contracts align with company policies, legal requirements, and industry regulations. - Collaborating cross-functionally to clarify contract terms and resolve any issues. - Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various commercial agreements, including customer agreements, vendor contracts, license agreements, and partnership agreements. - Partnering internally to streamline agreement review and processing and providing regular detailed status reports to internal departments. - Conducing risk assessments to evaluate the potential impact of contract terms and propose strategies for risk mitigation. - Helping to maintain and update our standard agreements, agreement playbooks, and internal documentation & training materials on our contract process. Qualifications: - Minimum of 5 post-qualification experience practicing commercial law in a reputable law firm or in-house with a global enterprise technology company. - Law degree from a nationally accredited law school and license to practice law or as in-house legal counsel in the jurisdiction where you are based. - Extensive experience with outbound SaaS transactions, inbound vendor, channel partner, MSP, and supplier agreements, involving data protection, security, and cloud technology. - Experience with privacy, data protection, and security in SaaS, including knowledge of evolving regulations and compliance frameworks. - Demonstrated ability to deliver results and drive alignment on complex, cross-functional projects involving various stakeholders. - Availability to work and support end of quarter business requirements. - Fluency in written and spoken English. - Ability to successfully work independently but also able to use good judgment and escalate issues when needed. - Sound time management skills with the ability to effectively prioritise work. Key Competencies: - Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills. - Strong analytical, problem solving and negotiation skills, and demonstrated conflict management and change management skills required. - Ability to be self-directed and work under minimal supervision. - Must have demonstrated ability to: - independently analyze and negotiate effectively and proactively apply innovative and creative solutions to problems; - interact with specialized work teams; - work under pressure with attention to detail; - translate legal and financial verbiage into common understandable terms for internal and external customers; - professionally and effectively communicate with all levels of employees within the company and external partner groups; - make decisions, exercise resourcefulness and prioritize tasks to meet a variety of demands; - produce written documents with clearly organized thoughts using proper sentence structure, punctuation and grammar; - comprehend and make inferences from written material; and - exercise independent initiative and judgment. What We Offer: Want to know what it means to work for a company that genuinely cares about you? Check out just a few of the benefits we give our employees: - Unlimited PTO, Parental leave - Accident, Life and medical insurance - Employee assistance program for mental wellness - Work from home allowance - Gratuity We are Globally Local With a diverse team across four continents, and customers in over 60 countries, you get to work closely with a global perspective right from your own neighborhood. We value Curiosity We believe the next great idea might just be around the corner. Perhaps it's that random thought you had ten minutes ago. We believe in creating an ecosystem that fosters a desire to seek out hard questions, and then figure out answers to them. Customer Customer Customer Everything we do is driven towards enabling our customers' growth. This means no matter what you do, you will always be adding real value to a real business problem. It's a lot of responsibility, but also a lot of fun.