Legal Counsel II Commercial Contracting, Privacy & Product Compliance

We build the identity verification and onboarding AI that banks, NBFCs, insurers, brokers, telcos and fintechs run their customers through, across India, the US, ASEAN and Africa. Which means our legal team does not sit downstream of the product. Whether a feature can exist, where the data can live, how long we can keep it, what the model can learn from, those are legal questions before they are engineering questions. As Legal Counsel II, you will own commercial contracting and compliance for HyperVerge's identity AI business and HyperStart, our contract lifecycle management platform. You will be the day-to-day legal partner to Sales, Product, Security, Engineering, Finance and Strategy.
The role is roughly two-thirds contracting and privacy operations, one-third regulatory and product counsel - and the balance shifts toward the second as you build depth.

Commercial Contracting
Own the terms that decide deals: liability and indemnity, data ownership and AI model governance, audit and regulator inspection rights, sub-processing, service levels, exit and transition.
Regulatory & Product Compliance
Translate BFSI regulation into product guardrails - RBI's KYC Master Direction (including CKYC), RBI's outsourcing of IT services framework, IRDAI's outsourcing and cyber security norms, SEBI's cyber resilience expectations and what each of them means for a technology service provider sitting inside a regulated entity's supply chain.
Advise Product and Engineering early, at design stage, on data residency, retention, consent architecture, cross-border transfer and sub-processing.
Run DPDP implementation on the ground, and handle GDPR, CCPA and PDPA diligence from customers, their auditors and their regulators.
Own the compliance artefacts that get scrutinized in a real audit: DPIAs, records of processing, incident response runbooks, vendor risk assessments,



policy acknowledgment workflows and customer diligence dockets.
Work on questions that do not yet have settled answers and involve evolving regulation: including governance and design for compliance of obligations under the AI laws and regulatory guidance across India, VN, The Philippines, US and Nigeria.
Build the positions the company will rely on and be able to defend them to a customer's risk committee.
Support the Head of Legal on cross-border corporate and entity work as we expand, intra-group arrangements, employment and EOR structures in new markets, and coordination with external counsel on filings. Maintain trademark filings and brand protection; Legal Operations
Own the legal intake queue and contracting pipeline; Fluent on the product stack, the top enterprise contracts, the playbooks and the BFSI regulatory map. Negotiating MSAs, DPAs and security addenda with regulated clients without supervision. At least one privacy or compliance workflow operationalized end to end. The person Sales, Product and Security call first.
Owning a regulatory or product-compliance domain outright, the person the company relies on for that answer, internally and in front of customers.

4–7 years' post-qualification experience in technology specifically fintech or general corporate law - in-house or at a firm. Hands-on commercial SaaS contracting, including negotiating against BFSI counterparties and their procurement and risk teams.

- Practical experience with privacy frameworks - DPDP, GDPR or CCPA - not just a reading of them.
- A sound grasp of SaaS commercial models, IP and open-source licensing.
- LL.B. required. Transparent, plain-English drafting and a calm, solution-oriented negotiating style.

An intentional small, high ownership legal team with real accountability.
Legal is in the room when decisions are made.
We invest in legal technology and AI-assisted workflows, and we expect our lawyers to work at the front of that curve.

📌 (Senior) Legal and Compliance Counsel (Bengaluru)
🏢 HyperVerge
📍 Bengaluru