Legal Associate

The role

The Legal Associate will review and redline commercial contracts including customer agreements, MSAs, vendor agreements, and NDAs. This role involves managing high contract volumes and working with business, product, and legal teams.

What you will do

• Review and redline commercial contracts end-to-end
• Work through a high volume of contracts every day
• Mark up clauses such as liability, indemnity, IP ownership, confidentiality, data protection, and termination
• Take contracts from first review through counterparty comments to signature
• Review data processing terms and privacy clauses
• Give business, sales, and procurement teams clear, quick answers on contract questions
• Maintain contract templates, clause libraries, and playbooks
• Keep contract trackers and records accurate across India and US entities
• Spot recurring issues in contracts and flag them early

Required qualifications

• 1 to 3 years of experience reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts
• LLB from a reputed law school
• Hands-on experience marking up NDAs, MSAs, vendor and SaaS agreements, and customer contracts
• Working knowledge of data privacy terms (DPDP Act, GDPR) and basic IP and confidentiality concepts
• Sharp attention to detail
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Curiosity about AI and technology contracts
• Ownership mindset

Nice to have

• Bar Council enrolment
• Comfort working at speed in a startup or high-volume contracts environment

Benefits

• Daily Meals: Lunch and Dinner provided
• Family Insurance: 5 Lakhs worth of coverage for you and your family
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Flexible Working Hours

About the company

Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. The company has crossed $130M in Annualised Revenue and has over 10M users.