Job_Description":"

The chance

The Lead Legal will play a strategic role in supporting NPCI product, technology, and business teams by providing expert legal guidance across digital payments, technology contracts, regulatory frameworks, and commercial arrangements. This role is critical to ensuring compliance, enabling innovation, and balancing legal risk with business acceleration. You will partner closely with crossu2011functional teams to shape compliant, scalable, and businessu2011aligned solutions for India digital payments ecosystem.

Job details and Job Responsibilities

1. Strategic Legal Advisory
- Provide endu2011tou2011end legal guidance on product development, lifecycle management, and business operations.
- Translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into practical, businessu2011friendly advisories.
- Support product and technology teams in designing scalable, compliant solutions.
2. Regulatory Compliance Governance
- Stay abreast of laws impacting digital payments, data privacy, and financial services.
- Ensure products, services, documents,



and processes meet regulatory standards.
- Prepare committee notes, risk summaries, and governance frameworks for senior leadership.
3. Contracting Negotiation Excellence
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of agreements, including:
- Licensing, product, commercial service agreements
- Technology contracts (MSA, licensing, APIs, platforms)
- HR, marketing, collaboration consultancy contracts
- RFPs/RFQs
- Lead negotiations on complex, highu2011value transactions with domestic and foreign entities.
4. Risk Identification Mitigation
- Identify legal, commercial, and operational risks across documents, integrations, and business models.
- Provide risku2011balanced and solutionu2011oriented recommendations to stakeholders.
5. Standardization Process Improvement
- Drive standardization of legal templates, processes, and documentation.
- Modernize and streamline frameworks to accelerate exe

📌 Lead Legal (Mumbai)
🏢 National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)
📍 Mumbai