Legal Contracts - Deputy General Manager

4 Months ago • 12 Years + • Legal

Job Summary

Job Description

The Deputy General Manager of Legal Contracts at Paytm will be responsible for managing legal and contractual matters, mitigating legal risks, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Responsibilities include drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts, resolving contractual issues, implementing special projects, analyzing business requirements, adhering to internal frameworks, and providing general corporate advisory. The role requires strong legal acumen, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work independently and efficiently in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in contract management within a fintech or e-commerce company and a strong understanding of relevant laws.
Must have:
  • 12+ years contract management experience
  • Strong legal acumen
  • Excellent communication & coordination skills
  • Attention to detail & independent work ability
  • Proficient in MS Office
  • Experience in Fintech/E-commerce
  • Good drafting skills
  • Compliance assessment expertise (e-commerce, FEMA, data protection, IT laws)
Good to have:
  • Experience with Payments/Banks/Trading Company
Perks:
  • Merit-based culture
  • Agile & democratic setup
  • Opportunity to work at scale
  • Environment encouraging diverse perspectives
  • Be a part of India’s largest digital lending story

Job Details


About Us: Paytm is India’s leading digital payments and financial services company, which is focused on driving consumers and merchants to its platform by offering them a variety of payment use cases. Paytm provides consumers with services like utility payments and money transfers, while empowering them to pay via Paytm Payment Instruments (PPI) like Paytm Wallet, Paytm UPI, Paytm Payments Bank Netbanking, Paytm Fastag and Paytm Postpaid - Buy Now, Pay Later. To merchants, Paytm offers acquiring devices like Soundbox, EDC, QR and Payment Gateway where payment aggregation is done through PPI and also other banks’ financial instruments. To further enhance merchants’ business, Paytm offers merchants commerce services through advertising and Paytm Mini app store. Operating on this platform leverage, the company then offers credit services such as merchant loans, personal loans and BNPL, sourced by its financial partners.

About the team: The legal team facilitates legal risk and compliances centrally and ensures business activities are conducted in conformity with all applicable laws, regulations, internal policies, and procedures. Serve as a liaison for local regulators, and legal bodies as well as maintaining relationships with them. Ensure local regulatory permissions for Paytm remain current and appropriate for business needs.  

About the role: The major responsibilities would include being a part of the legal Contracts team to ensure effective management of legal and contractual matters, in addition to identification and mitigation of legal risks for the organization. The person will be a part of the legal team and assist senior legal colleagues in special and upcoming projects under the e-commerce and fintech division of Paytm.

Responsibilities:
1. Drafting, reviewing, red-lining, negotiating, and finalizing documents (Contracts, Letters, Proposals, RFPs, etc.) from a legal perspective, ensuring minimal/no risk to the organization.
2. Resolve any contractual issues developed while working with clients, partners, service providers, and vendors.
3. Collaborate with other cross functional teams (compliance, product, finance, business
teams) for implementation of special projects across all business verticals in a time bound
manner.
4. Ability to understand and analyze business requirements/needs, spot issues, and propose/implement solutions.
5. Adherence with internal frameworks, mandates, and processes. 
6. End-to-end legal management of assigned business transactions. General Corporate advisory and assist the senior colleagues of the team to research and assess viability of new proposed business models under the applicable ecommerce, and FEMA. 
7. Ability to analyze and assess business processes and proposed new products, identify issues and propose pragmatic solutions. Working closely with internal stakeholders (Business, Finance, Product etc.) and provide an appropriate and timely legal support.
8. Identify risks in the ongoing legal agreements and evaluate and assist in changes of
agreement templates and other legal processes of all business verticals for compliance of
applicable IT, ecommerce and privacy laws.

Superpowers/ Skills that will help you succeed in this role:
1. 12+ years of experience in end-to-end contract management having experience in a law firm or in-house legal team (preferably a fintech or an e-commerce startup).
2. Strong Legal acumen Good interpersonal skills to effectively communicate and coordinate complex issues with diverse levels of management and employees.
3. Attention to detail and ability to work independently and efficiently.
4. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic growth-mode environment.
5. Proficient with MS Word/MS Office.
6. Experience with a law firm or as an in-house counsel is preferred.
7. A candidate having experience working with a Payments/ Banks/ Trading Company is highly preferred.
8. The candidate should have good drafting skills and attention to detail. The person should be a self-starter and willing to hustle in a start-up environment.
9. Strong hold in assessing and advising on compliance of new business/product models with applicable e-commerce/FEMA/Data Protection/IT laws.


Education: Must be a law graduate, LL.B from top tier institute (National Law Schools, DU, ILS, Symbiosis) is preferred.

Why join us: Merit-based culture that thrives on self-motivated & driven individuals who are set out to make a successful career in India’s fastest-growing Fintech Organization. Agile & democratic setup that gives space to your creativity, and offers the opportunity to work at scale coupled with an environment that encourages diverse perspectives at all times. 

Compensation: If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you With enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 21 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants – and we are committed to it. India’s largest digital lending story is brewing here. It’s your opportunity to be a part of the story!
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