Legal Associate, Commercial Contracts
Dodo Payments · Posted Oct 22
Global Merchant of Record and billing platform for SaaS and AI-first companies
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About the role
Dodo Payments is a merchant of record operating across multiple jurisdictions, where merchant, partner, and vendor relationships must be legally enforceable across countries. The legal team supports commercial contracts, corporate documentation, compliance, and partnerships. This role owns commercial contracts end-to-end, maintains standard documentation and contracting tools, and supports corporate documentation and external counsel coordination.
What you will do
- Own commercial contracts from first request to signature: draft, review, and negotiate vendor, partner, service, and data agreements and NDAs.
- Keep standard documentation current, including master services agreement, merchant terms, pricing schedules, privacy policy, and employment agreements, as business and legal requirements evolve.
- Build the contracting toolkit: templates, fallback positions on common clauses, a negotiation playbook, and a contract register showing signed agreements, counterparties, and renewal dates.
- Act as first point of contact on the legal inbox: resolve routine queries and route complex matters.
- Support corporate documentation workstreams, including employee equity documentation, on clearly scoped tasks, with opportunity to take on more as context builds.
- Support trademark matters and legal/entity inputs for security and compliance certifications.
- Coordinate with external counsel in other jurisdictions when contracts or filings require local input.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 1–2 years post-qualification experience in general corporate or commercial law at an Indian or international law firm, or in-house at a company with significant cross-border operations.
- Strong drafting skills: precise, clean, and readable by non-lawyers.
- Cross-border exposure: comfort with foreign-law contracts and counterparties outside India.
- Breadth over narrow specialization: ability to handle multiple contract types and jurisdictions.
- Judgment to distinguish critical negotiation points from concessions, and to explain the difference succinctly.
- Real interest in how legal work drives business outcomes; ability to see the commercial impact of drafting.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in payments, fintech, or SaaS industries.
- Familiarity with contract lifecycle management tools.
- Prior exposure to regulatory compliance or security certifications.
Benefits and support
- Health and Accidental insurances.
- Clear growth path based on performance.
About Dodo Payments
Dodo Payments is a global Merchant of Record (MoR) and billing platform designed for SaaS, AI-first, and digital product businesses. The platform streamlines cross-border commerce by taking care of legal and financial responsibilities, global tax calculations, compliance, invoicing, and local payment processing across more than 150 countries. It empowers developers, solopreneurs, and scaling enterprises to monetize globally without setting up local entities.
- Industry
- Payments
- Company size
- 50-100 employees
- Founded
- 2024
- Location
- Bengaluru, India
- Funding stage
- Seed
Funding
Seed · $2.1M raised
- 2025-02-01Seed$1M
- 2025-12-24Pre-Seed$1.1M
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Ayush Agarwal
Co-Founder & CPTO
Recent coverage
Inc42
Cross-border Payments Startup Dodo Lands $1.1M In Pre-Seed Round2025-02-25
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Dodo Payments secures $1.1 million in pre-seed funding2025-03-11