Legal Manager

About GoKwik

GoKwik is building the growth operating system for D2C and eCommerce brands, enabling businesses to optimise checkout, reduce RTO, power payments, drive retention, and unlock post-purchase engagement. With 15,000+ merchants globally and a growing presence across India, the UK, Europe, and the US, GoKwik is building technology and financial infrastructure that powers the next generation of digital commerce.

Why This Role Matters

As GoKwik continues to scale its fintech, payments, SaaS, and digital financial services ecosystem, legal plays a critical role in enabling responsible innovation. This role will work at the intersection of product, technology, regulation, and business, partnering closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to build products, partnerships, and commercial frameworks that are both compliant and commercially viable.

What You'll Do

Product & Regulatory Advisory

• Act as the primary legal partner for GoKwik's fintech, SaaS, payments, and digital financial services ecosystem.
• Partner with Product, Business, and Technology teams on product structuring, feature development, customer journeys, and go-to-market initiatives.
• Advise on applicable regulatory frameworks and assess the legal implications of new products, business models, partnerships, and technology integrations.
• Enable legally compliant and commercially viable product launches while balancing innovation, business objectives, and regulatory risk.
• Track evolving regulatory developments and translate them into actionable guidance for business and leadership.
• Partner with industry bodies and associations on regulatory representations, advocacy notes, and white papers for submission to the RBI and other regulatory authorities.
• Drive legal oversight of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) framework, including privacy obligations, policies, contractual safeguards, governance, risk assessment, and ongoing compliance.
• Bring strong understanding of Payment Aggregator regulations, Digital Lending Guidelines, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

Commercial Contracts & Strategic Transactions

• Lead the drafting, review, negotiation, and closure of complex commercial agreements across the fintech and technology ecosystem.
• Draft and negotiate MSAs, SaaS subscription agreements, order forms, SLAs, NDAs, DPAs, and other commercial contracts.
• Work on agreements with banks, NBFCs, payment networks, technology vendors, enterprise clients, aggregators, merchants, and strategic partners.
• Support strategic partnerships, platform integrations, business collaborations, and market expansion initiatives.
• Build and maintain scalable contracting frameworks, standard templates, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, and approval processes.
• Drive efficient contract lifecycle management and approval workflows.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Legal Operations

• Work closely with Product, Compliance, Finance, Operations, Technology, and Business teams to enable business priorities while managing legal and regulatory risk.
• Translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into practical, business-oriented solutions.
• Improve legal operations through process optimisation, automation, and contract lifecycle management.
• Strengthen legal governance and contracting practices as GoKwik scales.

Who You Are

• Legal professional with 4–6 years of relevant post-qualification experience, preferably across fintech, payments, SaaS, technology, or digital financial services.
• Strong understanding of the RBI regulatory ecosystem, with exposure to Payment Aggregator and Digital Lending regulations.
• Experience advising product and business teams on regulatory and commercial matters.
• Hands-on experience drafting and negotiating commercial, technology, SaaS, and partnership agreements.
• Exposure to DPDP, data privacy, technology integrations, and strategic partnerships.
• Strong commercial judgement with the ability to balance legal risk with business objectives.
• Comfortable working with cross-functional stakeholders and translating complex legal requirements into clear, actionable advice.
• Strong ownership, attention to detail, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Someone who sees legal as a business enabler, not just a risk-control function.

Why GoKwik

At GoKwik, you'll work on legal challenges that sit at the heart of fintech, payments, technology, and digital commerce. This is an opportunity to work closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams, shape products and partnerships at scale, and play a meaningful role in navigating a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. You'll have the opportunity to build scalable legal frameworks from the ground up while working in a high-ownership environment where strong legal thinking directly enables business growth.