Sr. Manager, Legal India

Elastic
Bangalore, IN
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Geared toward senior legal professionals comfortable with managing a team and handling APJ compliance, litigation, and investigations in a distributed work environment.

Best fit for

  • Experienced legal professional with 8+ years in technology contracts and APJ compliance.
    — “8+ years in house and/or in a law firm
  • Leader capable of managing a team of three counsel and contracts professionals.
    — “Lead a team of three counsel and contracts professionals
  • Self-starter who can balance legal risks with business strategy in a fast-growing company.
    — “A self-starting, proactive, driven, adaptable person

Things to consider

  • 10-15% of work involves handling compliance, employment, litigation, and investigations.
    — “10-15% of your work
  • Limited travel requirements despite being a primarily work-from-home position.
    — “Ability to participate in limited travel requirements

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with AI tools and automation in legal workflows.
    — “leaning into AI tools and automation opportunities
  • Demonstrate a track record of delivering user-experience-focused legal results.
    — “Proven track record consistently delivering outstanding, thoughtful, user-experience-focused results
  • Emphasize prior experience representing high-growth companies in legal matters.
    — “Prior experience representing high-growth companies is strongly preferred
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Mid Level

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • lead a team of three counsel and contracts professionals
  • provide regional legal support associated with APJ Compliance, Employment, Litigation, and Investigation matters
  • build and strengthen workflow processes between the Legal Department and other departments
Typical background
legal authority to practice law in India8+ years experience in drafting and negotiation of technology contracts

Skills & requirements

Required

Legal Authority To Practice Law In India8+ Years Experience In Drafting And Negotiation Of Technology ContractsAbility To Synthesize Directions While Balancing Legal Risks With Business Strategy

Preferred

Experience With India And APJ Compliance, Employment, Litigation And InvestigationsPrior Experience Representing High-growth Companies

Stack & domain

LeadershipCommunicationLegalComplianceEmploymentLitigationInvestigation

About the role

Original posting from Elastic

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

We seek to hire an Indian based Senior Commercial Counsel in either Pune or Bangalore with 8+ years' experience to join our Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) legal department in this fast-growing, truly globally distributed company. We Elasticians are welcome, open, and empathetic and your legal co-workers are sharp and motivated to do their best work. Reporting to the Senior Director & Head of International Legal, this is primarily a work-from-home position, and we are focusing our search in the Pune and Bangalore region.

What You Will Be Doing

Lead a team of three counsel and contracts professionals responsible for negotiating and structuring a wide variety of commercial contracts (including channel agreements, cloud/ SaaS and software subscription contracts, procurement, NDAs, RFPs, and related professional services in India, the APJ region, and beyond.

Provide regional legal support associated with APJ Compliance, Employment, Litigation, and Investigation matters.

Engage closely with the wider Legal Department globally and other key Elastic stakeholders.

Supporting APJ & Global Legal team members on ad hoc projects – as needed.

Help to build and strengthen workflow processes between the Legal Department and other departments within Elastic to enable dealmaking and compliance initiatives. This includes leaning into AI tools and automation opportunities. 

What You Bring

Legal authority to practice law in India with 8+ years in house and/or in a law firm, or some combination thereof, of proven experience in the drafting and negotiation of technology contracts. 

Experience with India and APJ compliance, employment, litigation and investigations, which may comprise 10-15% of your work.

An ability to synthesize directions while balancing legal risks with business strategy. 

A self-starting, proactive, driven, adaptable person who can, with poise and grit, prioritize and balance projects and recalibrate advice in view of shifting priorities, legal developments, and risk tolerance.

Bonus Points

Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Proven track record consistently delivering outstanding, thoughtful, user-experience-focused results

Prior experience representing high-growth companies is strongly preferred.

Ability to collaborate and function well in a distributed team environment.

Ability to participate in limited travel requirements.

 

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As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary

Health coverage for you and your family in many locations

Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles

Generous number of vacation days each year

Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service

Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love

Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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