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India, Bengaluru
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BlueOptima provides industry-leading objective metrics in software development using its proprietary Coding Effort Analytics, enabling large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost. Founded in 2006, BlueOptima is a profitable, independent software company whose core technology was originally devised in research carried out at Cambridge University.
Headquartered in London, UK, BlueOptima operates through subsidiaries and offices across the UK, India, Mexico, the United States and Japan. Its technology is deployed by global enterprises — including Fortune 50 companies, major global banks and leading S&P constituents — to drive value from their software development activities, running complex analytics over very large source-code data sets.
We are looking for an independent, commercially-minded lawyer, based in India, to own BlueOptima’s legal function on a full-time basis. The role principally supports the contracting that underpins our enterprise SaaS business and owns, maintains and improves the legal framework that supports a fast-moving, multi-jurisdiction group.
Commercial deals are sold through our UK and US entities, and BlueOptima contracts on its own standard paper governed by England & Wales, New York or Swiss law. You will negotiate directly with counterparties — including some of the world’s largest enterprises — so the ability to lead difficult, high-value negotiations to a clean close with limited supervision is central to the role.
In addition to the group commercial work, you will be the legal point of contact for the India entity, covering Indian employment law and local statutory compliance. Enterprise contract negotiation. Commercial contracting. India entity legal & compliance. Act as legal point of contact for the India entity — employment-law matters, local statutory and regulatory compliance, and entity-level legal support.
Legal framework and playbooks. Own, maintain and optimise standard templates, fall-back positions, contract policies and the contract-management system; Data privacy and InfoSec. Handle data-protection matters (including GDPR-governed obligations), negotiate DPAs, and support InfoSec policy management and customer security requirements.
Embed AI tooling across legal review, triage, drafting and contract analysis, and help shape the company’s approach to AI-related legal and regulatory questions.
Qualified lawyer with excellent academic credentials, qualified to advise on England & Wales, New York Law. equivalent demonstrable experience drafting and negotiating under E&W law will also be considered.
Own and run an established legal function with real autonomy — your decisions carry weight and are visible to the leadership team.
Broad, varied mandate spanning commercial, data privacy, employment, IP and InfoSec across multiple jurisdictions.
A genuinely AI-forward environment: you are expected and supported to build AI into how legal work gets done.
Hybrid working, modern equipment and a personal professional-development budget.
32 days of holidays (this includes public and religious holidays)