About the Role:
We're hiring a Legal Associate, Corporate & Commercial, to support Dodo Payment's legal function as we scale across products, teams, and jurisdictions. You will work closely with the Compliance & Legal Head, founders, and cross-functional teams on commercial contracts, corporate documentation, fundraising diligence readiness, entity setup, and legal process building. This is an on-site role in Bengaluru reporting to the Compliance & Legal Head.
Responsibilities:
● Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts (customer, vendor, NDA, service, partnership) and own templates, clause banks, and documentation workflows
● Own corporate documentation, entity setup workstreams, and fundraise DD package preparation; coordinate with external counsel across jurisdictions
● Conduct legal and regulatory research (including sales tax and transfer pricing) and help build scalable legal processes, trackers, and internal policies
Requirements:
● 1–4 years of relevant experience in a law firm and/or in-house legal team, with exposure to commercial contracts, general corporate work, and legal research
● Strong drafting, review, and document management skills with the ability to analyse legal issues and translate them into practical business guidance
● Comfort working in a fast-moving startup environment with clear communication, execution discipline, and sound judgment on when to escalate
Success Metrics (3 - 6 months):
● Internal stakeholders (product, ops, finance, BD) route legal questions through you as a default — you're a trusted first point of contact, not a bottleneck
● Commercial contracts move from request to execution without repeated escalation to the Compliance & Legal Head; turnaround time is predictable and improving
● The legal function is visibly more structured than when you joined — templates, trackers, repositories, and processes exist where they didn't before, and the team can point to them during diligence or partner conversations
Why Join Us:
● High ownership from day one, with direct exposure to cross-functional and cross-border legal work alongside the Compliance & Legal Head and founders
● Direct exposure to a wide variety of commercial, corporate, and regulatory questions in a fast-scaling global business
● Opportunity to build legal systems, documentation standards, and scalable processes from the ground up
Compensation, Benefits & Growth:
● Competitive salary: 12–20 LPA
● Health insurance and team off-sites
● ESOP participation (early-stage ownership)
● Clear growth path based on performance
Skills Required
- 1–4 years of relevant experience in a law firm and/or in-house legal team
- Strong drafting, review, and document management skills
- Ability to analyse legal issues and provide business guidance
- Experience with commercial contracts and general corporate work
Dodo Payments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Dodo Payments and has not been reviewed or approved by Dodo Payments.
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance is described publicly as “comprehensive,” indicating core medical coverage is part of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — A “generous leave policy” is highlighted, signaling meaningful paid time off.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — ESOP “ownership opportunities” are promoted, making equity a stated component of total rewards.
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What We Do
Dodo Payments is a global Billing & Payments platform helping AI-first and SaaS businesses monetise across 220+ countries and union territories. We handle payments, credit-based billing, usage metering, subscriptions, compliance, and tax so founders can focus on building, not operations.
Why Work With Us
We are building the global billing and payments layer for AI-first companies. At Dodo Payments, you will work on real problems like cross-border payments, tax compliance, and scalable billing. Small team, high ownership, fast shipping, and direct impact from day one.
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