Senior Legal Associate Freelance

Kata.ai; Indonesia; Remote; IDR 350,000,000 - 600,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Learning opportunity

Job summary

Kata.ai is seeking a Senior Contracts Lawyer to draft, review, and manage end-to-end commercial agreements for its SaaS and enterprise AI business. You will ensure regulatory compliance across Indonesian entities and mitigate legal risks while supporting scalable client relationships.

The role favors candidates with 5–7 years of commercial law experience, strong drafting and negotiation skills, and the ability to work independently in a flexible remote contract setup.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of professional experience in commercial law, focusing on drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts.
• Experience with SaaS, technology, or digital platform agreements, including SLAs, DPAs, IP clauses.
• Advising on Indonesian regulatory compliance across multiple legal entities.
• Available for flexible remote contract/freelance engagement.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate end-to-end SaaS and enterprise contracts.
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws and internal policies.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Maintain document templates and contract lifecycle processes.

Skills

Contract management

Regulatory compliance

SaaS/tech agreements

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's degree in Law (S.H.)

Advocate license (PERADI)

Tools

Google Workspace

Microsoft Office

DocuSign / Ironclad

Job description

Draft, review, and manage end-to-end commercial contracts and legal documentation — ensuring full compliance with applicable regulations and internal policies across Kata.ai 's SaaS and enterprise AI business — so that commercial operations run smoothly, legal risks are mitigated, and the company can scale its client relationships with confidence.

Experience

• 5–7 years of professional experience in commercial law, with a focus on contract drafting, review, and negotiation
• Proven experience handling SaaS, technology, or digital platform commercial agreements — understanding of subscription models, SLAs, data processing agreements, and IP clauses is essential
• Experience advising on Indonesian regulatory compliance across multiple legal entities
• Prior exposure to investment-related legal operations or corporate secretarial coordination is an advantage
• Experience working in or with a technology company, startup, or SaaS business is strongly preferred
• Comfortable working in a contract/freelance capacity with the ability to manage workload independently and flexibly

Qualifications & Education

• Bachelor's degree in Law (S.H.) from an accredited institution; Master's degree is a plus
• Advocate license (PERADI) is a plus
• Familiarity with Indonesian SaaS, technology, or digital economy legal landscape is strongly preferred

Technical Skills

• Contract Management: End-to-end drafting, redlining, negotiation, and execution of SaaS agreements, MSAs, NDAs, SOWs, and vendor contracts
• Compliance: Indonesian regulatory compliance, UU PDP (data privacy), OJK (if applicable), and corporate governance
• Investment & Corporate: Support for investment-related legal documentation and corporate secretary coordination
• Tools: Google Workspace / Microsoft Office; experience with contract management tools (e.g., DocuSign, Ironclad, or equivalent) is a plus
• Language: Professional legal drafting proficiency in both Bahasa Indonesia and English

Flexible / Remote Contract / Freelance engagement — project-based or retainer (to be confirmed)

We value a flexible working hour for our employees. The most important is we provide a learning experience in Conversational AI Industry.

Kata.ai is an Indonesian Conversational Artificial Intelligence company with a focus on creating technology to enhance the understanding of human conversations, improving the way humans collaborate with machines. Kata.ai ’s Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology powers MultiPurpose chatbots (virtual customer service / virtual friend) for major corporations in Indonesia across different kinds of industries such as Unilever (FMCG), Telkomsel (Telco), Bank BRI (Financial Services), and Alfamart (Retail). The company’s proprietary Kata Bot Platform can be leveraged to create feature-rich chatbots on top of Kata.ai ’s robust and scalable AI technology platform, ensuring company of any size can easily build their own chatbot on any messaging platform. With this platform, it is now possible for the business to focus on designing engaging interaction for their customers, while Kata.ai handles all the technology aspects of the chatbots. Established in 2015, the company has become a trusted partner for major corporations such as Microsoft, Accenture, and Line. In 2020, the company received Series-B funding from TransPacific Technology Fund and MDI Venture.