Legal Associate, Contracts

Nuvena; New Delhi; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuvena is seeking a contracts role in New Delhi to draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts and to teach Navio how contracts actually work. You will translate contract logic into rules Navio OS can execute and work closely with engineers to label clauses and test AI results.

The role requires 2–3 years of contracts experience after an LL.B., with fluency in drafting and negotiating clauses on real deals.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of contracts experience after LL.B.
• Fluent in drafting and negotiating clauses on real deals.
• Able to break down contracts into obligations, owners, dates, proof and penalties.
• Detail-oriented and organised, able to coordinate with engineers and product managers.
• Experience with AI tools in legal work and ability to identify incorrect outputs.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts: MSAs, SLAs, NDAs, leases, and vendor/distributor agreements.
• Translate contract logic into product rules Navio OS can run: obligations, owners, due dates, proof, penalties.
• Train and test Navio's AI with engineering: label clauses, review outputs, document reasoning.
• Explain legal logic to non-lawyers and product logic to lawyers.
• Support customers' legal teams during onboarding: clause mapping and obligation reviews.
• Maintain Nuvena's contracts, policies and compliance.

Skills

Legal drafting

Contract negotiation

Clause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

LL.B./LL.B. equivalent

Job description

About Nuvena: Nuvena builds Navio, the Execution Operating System: every promise a company makes or is owed — in a contract or to a team — gets an owner, a follow-up and proof.

Draft, review and negotiate contracts, and teach Navio how contracts work.

New Delhi · 2–3 years

Role Summary

You draft, review and negotiate contracts, and you teach Navio how contracts actually work. You turn the logic of clauses into rules Navio OS can run: what creates an obligation, who owns it, when it falls due, what counts as proof and what happens when it is missed. You work side by side with the engineers to label clauses, test the AI and explain exactly where it went wrong. Your legal judgement becomes part of the product.

Key Responsibilities

• Draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts: MSAs, SLAs, NDAs, leases, and vendor and distributor agreements; keep the clause library and negotiation playbooks current.
• Translate contract logic into rules the product can run: which clauses create obligations, who owns them, when they fall due, what counts as proof, and what the penalties and remedies are.
• Train and test Navio's AI with the engineering team: write examples, label clauses, review outputs, flag errors and document the reasoning so engineers can build it in.
• Explain legal logic to non-lawyers in plain language, and product logic back to lawyers.
• Support customers' legal teams during onboarding: clause mapping, playbook set-up and obligation reviews.
• Keep Nuvena's own contracts, policies and compliance in order.

Must Have

• 2–3 years in contracts at a law firm, in-house or in legal operations, after an LL.B.
• Fluent in legal drafting; has negotiated clauses on real deals.
• Breaks a contract into obligations, owners, dates, proof and penalties without being told how.
• Detail-first and organised; comfortable working with engineers and product managers.
• Uses AI tools in legal work and can tell when the output is wrong.
• Takes ownership and finishes what you start.

Good To Have

• Experience labelling data or reviewing AI output at scale.
• Working knowledge of the Indian Contract Act, stamp duty and the Arbitration and Conciliation Act.
• Comfort with spreadsheets and no-code tools.

What we expect from everyone:

• Go-getter
• Problem-solver
• Open-minded
• Takes decisions
• Owns the outcome
• Works as one team