Dealhare - General Counsel - Retail/eCommerce Sector

About Dealshare (www.dealshare.in)

DealShare, India's fastest growing social e-commerce startup known for pioneering the community group buying (CGB) model in India, has a vision of enabling e-commerce for the next 500 million users in India in non-metro and rural markets. DealShare has recently raised Series E funding of $ 165 million with key investors like Tiger Global, Alpha Wave Global (Falcon Edge), Kora Capital, Dragoneer Investments Group, Westbridge Capital India, Matrix Partners, and Unilever Ventures to name a few.

This transaction marks the third funding for the company in a span of eight months, with the valuation increasing ten-fold on the back of high growth momentum. With the current round, the total funding raised by DealShare stands at $ 348 million.

DealShare has built a new disruptive retail model for India, focusing on the affordability & price component for the mass consumers. It offers high-quality, low-priced essentials coupled with a gamified, fun, and virality-driven vernacular shopping experience, making it easy for first-time internet users to experience online shopping. Founded by Vineet Rao, Sourjyendu Medda, Sankar Bora, and Rajat Shikhar in Sept 2018, DealShare provides a sharp and curated assortment at highly competitive prices and has built an innovative community leader driven ultra-low-cost delivery mechanism collectively leading to best-in-class unit economics.

Dealshare has 10 million+ customers. It is present in 100 cities/towns across 10 states, namely Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Haryana, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu, with an Annual GMV Run Rate of $860 million. We aim to expand operations to 200 cities across India and are setting an audacious goal to increase our annual revenue run rate to $3 billion.

What are we building

- Customer-first - use first principles to truly understand our customer needs and build a business that's customer-centric & not copy the Western models.

- A unique, hyper-efficient & logistics operational model that enables us to carry out operations at the lowest costs in the country

- Simple to understand, intuitive, engaging & gamified product experience in all local & regional languages

- Regional to National - Creating a key distribution platform for high-quality, lesser-known regional manufacturers and making them popular brands nationally.

Mission:

To create one unique tech-enabled, organized retail model for the entire Indian mass ecosystem that solves for the affordability of the middle Indian customers through high quality, low priced essentials while providing a platform for small, regional, and national manufacturers to offer their products at best margins.

Designation: General Counsel

Key Responsibilities

- Examination and approval of contractual and legal documents, vetting forms of agreements, contracts, sub-contracts and non-standard conditions, identifying any adverse terms to comply with Indian law and Dealshare Directives.

- Legal and Integrity: Assisting the Legal and Compliance function in ensuring the business meets legal, regulatory, integrity and contractual obligations in a way that appropriately takes account of commercial imperatives.

- Lead and present legal review for risk reviews, engaging with all internal stakeholders.

- Identify and provide appropriate training for cross-functional teams.

- Customers: actively engages to understand regional/local customer's business, strategies and opportunities

- Internal stakeholders: identifies opportunities to modify internal processes, services and structures to improve the business' ability to execute projects and customer strategies

- Lead negotiation of acceptable contract terms with clients on business opportunities.

- Protecting DealShare from unacceptable contractual risks and exposures.

What are we looking for

- Good understanding of Indian law and practices (including intellectual property, commercial, e-commerce, FDI regulations, privacy laws, consumer protection laws, legal metrology and FSSAI laws).

- The candidate should have strong communication skills, an enthusiastic and reliable worker, show keen interest to understand business and manage quick turnaround times.

- 15+ years of experience in and related business advisory work

- Good organizational and interpersonal skills, including ability to work effectively within a team in a fast-paced dynamic business environment.

- Enable business without compromising on the process.

- Ability to multitask.

- Good team player with a collaborative approach in completing assignments.

- Meticulous and punctual.

- Leverage business understanding / functional expertise to deliver value to stakeholders