CORPORATE COUNSEL

Most legal roles ask you to protect the company. This one asks you to help build it.

We are a deep-tech startup at the frontier of neuroscience and consumer hardware. The science is new, the regulatory landscape is evolving, and the commercial relationships we are forming are unlike anything a standard playbook covers. We need a lawyer who is energised by that, not made nervous by it. Someone who sees ambiguity as interesting rather than uncomfortable, and who understands that in an early stage company, the legal function is not a checkpoint. It is a competitive advantage.

You will report directly into our de facto General Counsel and work alongside leadership on everything from vendor contracts and commercial agreements to data privacy frameworks and corporate governance. The work is real, it is varied, and it starts from day one.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

No two weeks will look the same. At this stage of the company, the legal workload is broad by necessity, and the person in this seat needs to be genuinely comfortable with that. You will not be siloed into one area. You will be expected to context-switch, prioritise well, and develop strong opinions about where legal risk actually lives in this business versus where it does not.

On a day to day basis, you will draft, review, and negotiate a high volume of contracts across vendor agreements, partnership deals, NDAs, employment contracts, SaaS agreements, and research collaborations. You will be a core part of how the company structures its commercial relationships, and your ability to turn around clean, well-reasoned work quickly will matter enormously.

Beyond contracts, you will help build out our data privacy posture. We are building hardware that interfaces with the human body and generates sensitive health-adjacent data. The regulatory and ethical questions that come with that are not hypothetical. You will work with product and engineering teams to ensure we are thinking about privacy correctly from the earliest stages of development, across Indian law and relevant international frameworks including GDPR where applicable.

You will also support the GC on:

• Corporate governance, board matters, and regulatory filings
• Fundraising and investor-related legal work as the company grows
• Employment and contractor agreements across a rapidly scaling team
• IP protection, research agreements, and academic institution partnerships
• Ad hoc legal questions from founders and senior leadership that require fast, clear answers

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

You have between 4 and 7 years of legal experience, with a strong foundation built either at a reputable law firm or through quality in-house work at a technology, healthcare, or research-driven company. You know how to draft well and negotiate without being unnecessarily combative. You understand that the goal of a good commercial lawyer is to get deals done cleanly, not to find reasons they cannot happen.

You have some exposure to data privacy law, whether through dedicated client work, an in-house privacy function, or your own initiative in keeping up with how this area is evolving in India and globally. You do not need to be a pure privacy specialist, but you should be able to hold your own in a conversation about DPDP, GDPR, and what responsible data handling looks like for a hardware company collecting sensitive biometric data.

You are practical. You know how to give a clear answer when a founder or product manager asks you a legal question, rather than defaulting to a memo that says it depends. You are comfortable being the person in the room who flags risk but also helps find a way through it.

Beyond that, you:

• Have genuine breadth across commercial, corporate, employment, and regulatory law
• Can manage a high volume of contract work without letting quality slip
• Communicate clearly with non-lawyers and do not hide behind jargon
• Take ownership of your work end to end with minimal supervision
• Are curious about the industry you are operating in, not just the legal problems it generates