Associate Legal Counsel

Loop Subscriptions; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leaves

Free lunch and snacks

Annual company retreat

Job summary

Loop Subscriptions is hiring its first dedicated in-house lawyer in India to build the legal function. You will work directly with the Chief of Staff and own day-to-day legal execution, building templates, playbooks, and SOPs to protect the company as it scales.

This role focuses on de-risking the business and partnering with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Finance to remove legal roadblocks. Long-term ownership is encouraged.

Qualifications

• Law degree and 2–5 years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on commercial contract drafting and negotiation experience.
• Ability to research multi-jurisdictional requirements and provide recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate SaaS MSAs, Order Forms, DPAs, NDAs, vendor and partner agreements.
• Lead merchant negotiations and explain Loop's position with stakeholders.
• Maintain and redesign contract templates to reflect history and changes.
• Support privacy compliance across GDPR and applicable laws; align notices and obligations.
• Assess cookie, tracking, API terms, and subscription rules across markets and translate into actions.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Security, and Ops on PCI DSS, SOC 2, and audits.
• Support IP protection, HR policies, employment and consultant docs, and routine reviews.
• Create intake, approval, escalation, repository, and obligation-tracking SOPs; identify legal risks.

Skills

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Stakeholder communication

Attention to detail

Ownership mindset

Education

Law degree

Job description

Experience: 2-5 years

This is Loop s first dedicated legal hire and an important step in building the legal function. You will work directly with the Chief of Staff, own day-to-day legal execution, and build the templates, playbooks, and SOPs that protect the company as it scales.

We are looking for someone who wants to build with the team over the long term and retain ownership of the systems they create. This position will focus on de-risking the business and work closely with the Sales, Marketing, Product, and Finance teams to remove legal roadblocks.

Responsibilities

Commercial Contracts

• - Draft, review, and negotiate SaaS MSAs, Order Forms, DPAs, NDAs, vendor agreements, partner agreements, and other commercial contracts

Merchant Negotiations

• - Lead issue-based discussions with merchants and their legal counsel, understand commercial concerns, explain Loop s position, and agree on workable fallbacks

Contract Standards

• - Maintain templates and clause positions in response to legal or regulatory changes, and periodically redesign the contract suite to remove inconsistencies, reflect negotiation history, and improve clarity

Privacy and Data

• - Support compliance with the EU GDPR, UK GDPR, and applicable US state privacy laws, while aligning the MSA, DPA, privacy notices, and incident obligations

Product and Consumer Regulations

• - Assess cookie and tracking requirements, API and data-access terms, and subscription, auto-renewal, and cancellation rules across relevant markets; translate findings into product and contract actions

Security and Assurance

• - Partner with Engineering, Security, and Operations on PCI DSS responsibilities, SOC 2 readiness, customer security reviews, and legal evidence required for audits

IP, Employment, and General Advisory

• - Support IP protection and licensing, HR policies, employment and consultant documentation, and routine business-contract reviews

Legal Operations and Risk Discovery

• - Create intake, approval, escalation, repository, and obligation-tracking SOPs; proactively identify unaddressed legal risks, prioritise them, and drive practical mitigation with internal teams or external counsel

Ideal Profile

• - Law degree from a recognised institution and 2-5 years of relevant experience
• - Hands-on commercial contract drafting and negotiation experience
• - SaaS, technology, or in-house legal experience is strongly preferred
• - Ability to research unfamiliar multi-jurisdictional questions, distinguish legal requirements from business preferences, and provide clear recommendations
• - Comfortable speaking directly with merchants, business teams, and technical stakeholders
• - Strong drafting discipline, attention to detail, and judgement regarding when to accept, negotiate, or elevate risk
• - Strong ownership mindset

Perks

• - Annual leaves
• - Free lunch and snacks
• - Annual company retreat

Disclaimer

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