Legal Counsel

The role

The Senior Legal Counsel provides strategic legal guidance and ensures compliance across expanding business functions. This person handles corporate legal matters, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, commercial contracts, and dispute resolution.

What you will do

• Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial contracts including service, vendor, technology, platform, SaaS, licensing, content acquisition, marketing, publishing, development, and data-privacy ag
• Track, research and advise on developments in Indian law affecting businesses.
• Support the management of civil and criminal litigation and disputes.
• Respond to requests from law enforcement and investigative authorities.
• Oversee internal investigations and ensure policy alignment.
• Support compliance functions and protect and leverage the group's intellectual property.
• Collaborate with HQ on global legal strategy and cross-border regulatory issues.
• Provide practical legal counsel across all levels of the organization.
• Build templates, playbooks and processes to help the legal team scale.
• Perform other relevant legal duties as assigned.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Law (LL.B.) from a recognized university in India
• Licensed to practice law in India
• Strong, well-rounded commercial contracting experience in technology, licensing, intellectual property, marketing and partnership arrangements
• Grounding in corporate law
• Strong understanding and experience in highly regulated areas such as payments, e-commerce, data protection, content regulation, and telecommunications
• Understanding of the general legal and regulatory landscape for digital businesses in India
• Able to work independently and handle day-to-day legal tasks
• Flexibility to work with different time zones
• Team player capable of working both independently and with others
• Strong sense of customer support and excellent interpersonal/communication skills
• Strategic mindset with the ability to manage complex legal issues and support multiple businesses with shifting priorities
• Must have a sense of humor!

Nice to have

• 7–10 years of post-qualification experience, including meaningful experience at a leading law firm or as in-house counsel in a multinational corporation, preferably in media/entertainment/fintech or a
• A general interest in gaming

About the company

KRAFTON, Inc. is based out of South Korea and is committed to discovering and globally publishing games. KRAFTON India is a trailblazer in the gaming industry with properties including BATTLEGROUNDS MOBILE INDIA (BGMI).