Job description
About AlphaSense:
The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.
The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!
About the Team:
AlphaSense has a great opportunity for an Assistant Counsel, Commercial Contracts in India to join our growing legal team. Legal is a critical function in supporting the company’s fast-paced environment and acts as a true business partner to all of our leaders across the organization. We work hand-in-hand with cross functional teams to provide solutions to enable and empower the company to achieve substantial growth targets while managing risk and protecting our business.
About the Role:
This role can either be based in our Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore or Delhi offices or remotely in India. The Assistant Counsel, Commercial Contracts will primarily be responsible for reviewing global commercial contracts, with a heavy emphasis on vendor/supplier agreements arising out of the United States, Europe, India, and Singapore. The Assistant Counsel, Commercial Contracts will report to the Managing Counsel, APAC, and will partner with all levels and functions of the business, including Procurement, Marketing, Security, Engineering and others to help AlphaSense achieve its high-growth goals. This role is essential to our growth and will have an immediate impact in our dynamic, fast-paced culture.
Who You Are:
- Fully qualified lawyer enrolled (or eligible to be enrolled) with the Bar Council of India.
- Preferably 1+ years’ experience with drafting, reviewing commercial agreements (with a heavy emphasis on vendor/supplier agreements) either in-house or with a nationally recognized law firm (or a combination of the two).
- Ability to analyze, review and negotiate a broad range of global commercial contracts including Master Services Agreements, Services Agreements, SOWs, Service Level Agreements, Orders Forms, NDAs; etc.
- Superior business acumen with an unrivaled commitment and deep-seated need to provide responsive support service to our teams and get things done; approaches responsibilities with a business friendly and pragmatic mindset while maintaining a commensurate balance of legal risk.
- Energetic, authentic, and friendly with a great sense of humor; capable of displaying strong negotiation skills and the ability to support difficult positions in a firm and patient manner.
- Effective communicator with the ability to interact with both internal and external professionals of all types and backgrounds.
- Experience with contract management systems, procurement tools and privacy a plus.
What You’ll Do:
- Draft and review the company’s commercial contracts and provide general transactional support cross the organization with a heavy emphasis on vendor/supplier agreements
- Remain informed of the shifting legal landscape relating to applicable laws, regulations and industry guidance that impact commercial agreements.
- Work effectively in a dynamic environment across different functional groups and time zones.
- Provide legal and strategic business advice to ensure agreements are consistent with playbooks, internal policies, and processes.
- Provide general support to the Managing Counsel, Associate Counsel, and the broader AlphaSense legal team on a wide range of legal matters, as needed.
AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.
In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.
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