Clear - Manager - Legal - LLB

Legal Manager

About Clear:

At CLEAR(formerly known as ClearTax), we are on a mission to simplify financial lives for all Indians. We make delightful tax-based SaaS and financial service products for businesses and individuals which helps them save money and time. We are trusted by over 6 million Indians, more than 50,000 tax professionals, 1 million small businesses and 3,000 large enterprises. For small and large businesses, our product suite covers invoicing, GST, a range of managed services and credit. For tax professionals, we offer comprehensive GST, Income Tax and TDS solutions. For individuals, we offer tax and wealth management solutions. With this Series C round, we have raised $140 million in equity capital since inception.

We have built rich platforms for GST, e-Waybill, e-Invoicing, ITR and TDS much ahead of the curve in India's business digitization journey. We now see a material part of our country's trade with $200B worth of invoices flowing every year. It is still day one for us as our goal is to scale 10x to 6 million businesses. For the same, we are going mobile-first for all our customer segments and building credit, payments, insurance, network and business discovery engines on our core platform.

Our investors include Y Combinator, Composite Capital, Elevation Capital, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Stripe and Kora Capital.

We are now significantly ramping up our business teams and are looking for the best people to help plan and run our business. If you have built and run a meaningful business, sold to Indian CXOs effectively and delivered on growth initiatives in tech/fintech firms, we would love to talk to you.

Responsibilities:

- Competence in broad range of corporate and business laws and experience in undertaking and executing complex commercial transactions;

- Extensive experience in drafting, reviewing, redlining, analyzing and summarizing various legal documentation such as software services agreements, commercial agreements, channel partner agreements, non-disclosure agreements, memorandum of understanding, and software license agreement;

- Ability to analyze and assess business processes, identify issues and propose pragmatic solutions while possessing a strong legal and business judgement;

- Possessing an exceptional legal aptitude and acumen in analyzing statutes, regulations and documents while possessing a commercial outlook;

- A consensus builder with great people skills who can effectively and efficiently collaborate and build relationships with attorneys and business clients at all levels throughout the organization.

- Superior time management skills, proven ability to adhere to timelines for deliverables and pays great attention to details.

- Independently drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts for various business lines including technology, SAAS, procurement and other day to day business contracts.

- Advice the business teams on laws applicable and legal risks related to new lines of business and assist the business teams in structuring the new lines of business.

Qualification & Skills:

- Should be a Law graduate with 4-7 years of relevant experience.

- Candidates having both prior in-house and law firm experience will be preferred.

- Candidates must have the ability to juggle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment and to re- prioritize quickly to address shifting business needs.

- Have the exposure of having undertaken legal due diligence review of start-ups generally and fin-tech companies in particular is an add on