About Us – Paytm is India's payment Super App offering consumers and merchants most comprehensive payment services. Pioneer of mobile QR payments revolution in India, today, Paytm is India’s largest payment company by Users, Merchants, Payment Transactions and Revenue.
Paytm’s mission is to drive financial inclusion in India and bring half a billion Indians into the mainstream economy through technology-led financial Services. Paytm enables commerce for small merchants and distributes various financial services offerings to its consumers and merchants in partnership with financial institutions.
Paytm has been a pioneer in the merchant space by introducing innovative solutions like QR codes to accept payments and Sound-box to recon payments by voice s. We are also distributing loans to these partners via our ‘Paytm for Business’ App.
About the team: The legal team facilitates business objectives while protecting against all legal risks and adhering to applicable compliances. The legal team ensures that the business activities are conducted in conformity with all applicable laws, regulations, internal policies, and procedures.
About the role: The major responsibilities would include being a part of the legal contracts team to ensure effective management of legal and contractual matters, in addition to identification and mitigation of legal risks for the organization. The person will be a part of the legal team and assist senior legal colleagues in special and upcoming projects under various divisions of Paytm.
Responsibilities:
1. Drafting, reviewing, red-lining, negotiating, and finalizing documents (Contracts, Letters, Proposals, RFPs, etc.) from a legal perspective, ensuring minimal/no risk to the organization.
2. Resolve any contractual issues developed while working with clients, partners, service providers, and vendors.
3. Collaborate with other cross functional teams (compliance, product, finance, business
teams) for implementation of special projects across all business verticals in a time bound
manner.
4. Ability to understand and analyze business requirements/needs, spot issues, and propose/implement solutions.
5. Adherence with internal frameworks, mandates, and processes.
6. End-to-end legal management of assigned business transactions. General Corporate advisory and assist the senior colleagues of the team to research and assess viability of new proposed business models under the applicable ecommerce, and FEMA.
7. Ability to analyze and assess business processes and proposed new products, identify issues and propose pragmatic solutions. Working closely with internal stakeholders (Business, Finance, Product etc.) and provide an appropriate and timely legal support.
8. Identify risks in the ongoing legal agreements and evaluate and assist in changes of
agreement templates and other legal processes of all business verticals for compliance of
applicable IT, ecommerce and privacy laws.
Superpowers/ Skills that will help you succeed in this role:
1. 8+ years of experience in end-to-end contract management having experience in a law firm or in-house legal team (preferably with a loan service provider or tech or an e-commerce startup).
2. Strong legal acumen and good interpersonal skills to effectively communicate and coordinate complex issues with diverse levels of management and employees.
3. Ability to work independently and efficiently.
4. Attention to detail, good drafting and analytical skills.
5. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic growth-mode environment.
6. Proficient with MS Word/MS Office.
7. A candidate having experience in a payments/ banking/ trading company is highly preferred.
8. Ability to assess and advise on compliance of new business/product models with applicable e-commerce/FEMA/Data Protection/IT laws.
Education: Must be a law graduate, LL.B from top tier institute (National Law Schools, DU, ILS, Symbiosis) is preferred.
Why join us: Merit-based culture that thrives on self-motivated & driven individuals who are set out to make a successful career in India’s fastest-growing Fintech Organization. Agile & democratic setup that gives space to your creativity, and offers the opportunity to work at scale coupled with an environment that encourages diverse perspectives at all times.
Compensation: If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you With enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 21 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants – and we are committed to it. India’s largest digital lending story is brewing here. It’s your opportunity to be a part of the story!
