Legal Contracts ( Technology) - Deputy General Manager

About Us: Paytm is India’s leading digital payments and financial services company, which is focused on driving consumers and merchants to its platform by offering them a variety of payment use cases. Paytm provides consumers with services like utility payments and money transfers, while empowering them to pay via Paytm Payment Instruments (PPI) like Paytm Wallet, Paytm UPI, Paytm Payments Bank Netbanking, Paytm Fastag and Paytm Postpaid - Buy Now, Pay Later. To merchants, Paytm offers acquiring devices like Soundbox, EDC, QR and Payment Gateway where payment aggregation is done through PPI and also other banks’ financial instruments. To further enhance merchants’ business, Paytm offers merchants commerce services through advertising and Paytm Mini app store. Operating on this platform leverage, the company then offers credit services such as merchant loans, personal loans and BNPL, sourced by its financial partners.

About the team: The legal team facilitates legal risk and compliances centrally and ensures business activities are conducted in conformity with all applicable laws, regulations, internal policies, and procedures. Serve as a liaison for local regulators, and legal bodies as well as maintaining relationships with them. Ensure local regulatory permissions for Paytm remain current and appropriate for business needs. About the role: The major responsibilities would include being a part of the legal Contracts team in order to ensure effective management of legal and contractual matters, in addition to identification and mitigation of legal risks for the organization. Handling End-to-end legal management of assigned business transactions.

Responsibilities:1. Drafting, reviewing, red-lining, negotiating, and finalizing documents (Contracts, Letters, Proposals, RFPs, click-wrap agreements 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. Liaising with various internal stakeholders (Business, finance, and Tech teams) to ensure timely closure of agreements and advise them on contractual mandates and compliances.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. 7. Liaising with internal/external audit team/s to understand and close their queries on legal contracts8. Managing the internal Contracts tool and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the data uploaded there

Superpowers/ Skills that will help you succeed in this role. 1. A candidate must have 10 years of experience in end-to-end contract management in a SAAS-based Company or Technology space.2. Strong Legal acumen, Good interpersonal skills to effectively communicate and coordinate complex issues with diverse levels of management and employees and other stakeholders including but not limited to clients/vendors/service provider etc.3. Attention to detail and ability to work independently and efficiently.4. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic growth-mode environment.5. Proficient with MS Word/MS Office/Data (storage) software(s)/modules and/or Digital Agreement Signing ecosystems/software(s).6. Experience with a law firm or as an in-house counsel is preferred.7 .A candidate with experience working with a financial technology company/ Ecommerce /financial institutions/ IT companies is highly preferred.

Education: Must be a law graduate, candidate should have qualified L.L.B or L.L.M.

Why join us?A collaborative output driven program that brings cohesiveness across businesses through technologyA solid 360 feedbacks from your peer teams on your support of their goalsWith 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!

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!