Associate Manager - Legal

7 Months ago • 4-7 Years • Legal

Job Summary

Job Description

Zeta is a Next-Gen Banking Tech company seeking an Associate Manager - Legal. This role involves acting as a trusted business advisor, collaborating across departments, and handling diverse legal assignments including employment law, intellectual property, transactional support, and SaaS agreements. Responsibilities include drafting, negotiating, managing stakeholders, providing legal advice to minimize risks, and communicating effectively with internal and external parties. The role also focuses on improving legal document drafts for quicker turnaround times and better understanding by non-legal stakeholders.
Must have:
  • Experience in technology agreements (SaaS MSA, PSA, Software Development)
  • Knowledge of data protection laws and IP
  • Ability to work independently and in a team
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to explain contract risks to non-lawyers
  • Attention to detail and efficiency
Good to have:
  • LLM or postgraduate degree in technology law
  • Experience in SaaS technology companies
  • Prior experience in law firms preferred over no law firm experience

Job Details

About Zeta
Zeta is a Next-Gen Banking Tech company that empowers banks and fintechs to launch banking products for the future. It was founded by Bhavin Turakhia and Ramki Gaddipati in 2015.
Our flagship processing platform - Zeta Tachyon - is the industry’s first modern, cloud-native, and fully API-enabled stack that brings together issuance, processing, lending, core banking, fraud & risk, and many more capabilities as a single-vendor stack. 20M+ cards have been issued on our platform globally.
Zeta is actively working with the largest Banks and Fintechs in multiple global markets transforming customer experience for multi-million card portfolios.
Zeta has over 1,700+ employees across the US, EMEA, and Asia, with 70%+ roles in R&D. Backed by SoftBank, Mastercard, and other investors, we raised $330M at a $2B valuation in 2025. 

About the Role
We are looking for a Associate Manager - Legal who can act as a trusted business advisor who works collaboratively across business, sales, and other functions and has the knowledge and experience required to take on a variety of legal assignments, such as  employment law advisory, intellectual property advisory and portfolio management, transactional support and assistance, SaaS Agreements with potential customers of Zeta, and agreements with SaaS Vendors who provide SaaS to Zeta for internal consumption or integration within Zeta’s SaaS Offerings.

Responsibilities

  • Drafting, negotiating, managing internal and external stakeholders, as well as managing external legal advisors assisting the company on such assignments.
  • Provide legal advice and opinions on all legal matters that impact the business and provide innovative solutions to minimize/manage the legal risks involved with the company’s business operations in various jurisdictions around the world
  • To communicate effectively with internal stakeholders (such as management, leadership teams, Finance, HR, Information Security etc) and external stakeholders (customers/clients, vendors, investor representatives, industry association representatives).
  • To constantly improve and evolve the drafts and templates created by the legal team, from learnings from each customer. Strive to simplify drafting in order to achieve quicker turn-around-times and to make legal agreements easier for non-legal stakeholders to understand.

Skills

  • The candidate must have an excellent grasp of laws and market practices pertaining to a variety of technology agreements such as SaaS Master Service Agreements, Professional Services Agreements, Software Development Agreements; data protection laws and issues under a contract, intellectual property and other affiliated areas. 
  • The candidate should have the ability to work independently and within a team as and when required and must have unimpeachable integrity, honesty and the ability to maintain strict confidentiality.
  • The candidate should have excellent verbal and written communication skills in order to communicate with persons across different walks of life and cultures and in order to understand business requirements and communicate the required solutions. 
  • Ability to explain contract risks and obligations to non-lawyers.
  • Attention to detail, speed, and efficiency in reviewing and drafting documents.

Experience and Qualifications

  • Educational Qualifications: 
  • 5 year BA.LLB (Hons) degree from a reputed national law university/college. (Mandatory Requirement)
  • LLM or post graduate degree in law from a reputed international law university specifically in the field of technology law. (Optional Requirement)

  •  Post Qualification Experience: 
  • 4-7 years In a top tier law firm, preferably within the technology law practice of the firm or at the least some level of experience in technology contracts; and/or as an in-house counsel in a Technology Company (preferably, SaaS however non-SaaS technology company experience will also be accepted) 
  • People with prior experience in law firms but currently working as in-house counsel will be preferred over people with no prior law firm experience.

Equal Opportunity
Zeta is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, and communities to apply and believe that a diverse workforce is key to our success

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