Senior Manager / Manager - Legal

Role Summary:

Raise is built on this core philosophy - we will bring exceptionally great products, awesome user experience and best in class customer service to our users. We have started with our first step by launching an Investment & Trading platform Dhan (www.dhan.co) in November 2021.

As a Manager / Senior Manager - Legal, you will be responsible to ensure that you manage and oversee all the legal aspects of the business, including but not limited to existing and upcoming products and business verticals. You will ensure complete ownership over advising management and leadership for execution of all legal matters with business partners & vendors, and also with all relationships with end users, customers and clients.

You will need to anticipate and manage the legal risks connected with or resulting from the business strategy, products, operations and processes. Other than that, you will not only be responsible to ensure compliance of business operations with relevant laws and regulations, but also proactively create and maintain awareness amongst employees.

Expected Responsibilities:

• Manage and oversee the business contracts / agreements, provide legal advice and review legal cases, advise the management, leadership and respective stakeholders.
• Manage all litigations by or against the company, handle all regulatory adjudications, enquiry proceedings, statutory actions, and investigations.
• Manage end to end coordination with the company's legal firm and keep abreast with the developments and amendments in the legal domains related functions.
• Proactively identify and advise on legal / regulatory risks, escalating when necessary to the founders, stakeholders and finally assisting with recommendations and solutions.
• Provide legal input for any new or existing policies, ensure all changes are within the permitted legal / regulatory framework.
• Liaise with relevant departments to ensure that where legal risks have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken.
• Stay up to date with all changes in legal and regulatory frameworks and align the business products & offerings with the same from time to time.

Expected Skills:

• 5-8 Years of experience in a similar role, preferably in a Financial Services company or a Corporate Law firm participating actively in Company Legal practices
• Bachelor of Legislation of Law (LLB) is mandatory
• Candidates with experience in Broking Industry is added advantage
• Hands-on experience and understanding of corporate laws and procedures with sound judgment and good communication skills.
• Managing end-to-end Corporate Legal team, practice and processes for a Series B/C stage startup or a company valued over INR 1000 Crores
• Has directly worked with Senior Management / Leadership in matters related to Legal and Corporate Affairs.

Location: Mumbai (Borivali East)

Candidates from Mumbai (Western Suburbs) would be preferred.

*This is an on-site opportunity and not a hybrid / remote role.

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Our People & Culture:

People and culture are the most important aspects of our business.

We are looking for team members just like us, in simple words - good people to work with and demonstrate following personality traits:

Be super obsessed about ensuring customer satisfaction.

(We are here because of our customers, and will be here only if we serve our customers)

We have a single opportunity to serve.

(Our customers will give us one opportunity to serve - we can't let them down. Be it product, uptimes, customer service or any interaction we have to deliver a wow experience.)

Respect your work, your team, your co-workers and our customers.

(The only way to get respect is to give it first)

Speed is all that matters. Ship right and ship faster.

(You either help the team move ahead fast, or you slow it down. We prefer the first.)

Humility & politeness over arrogance & over-confidence.

(If you are the smartest one in the room, bring up others to speed. We are here to serve our customers, not to prove a point.)

Quality over quantity.

(It is fine if you pick up a few things to do, but do them exceedingly well.)

Make your hands dirty irrespective of who you are.

(Our CEO & COO respond to customers every day. Our CTO codes every day. This is us.)

Talent and Competency over Credentials.

(Skills are more important than Credentials, we learned it all the hard way with life & experiences.)

Entrepreneurial, ownership driven and disciplined.

(We trust you to help us gain and retain the trust of our customers and our stakeholders)

Less words, more action.

(Believe in something show it by doing things. Not just by talking about it)

Flat hierarchy with open culture & conversations.

(You are among all of us, and we all are with you)

Passionate about the business you are a part of.

(Do it because you are passionate about it, not because it's your job.)

Raise is an equal opportunity employer.

(We celebrate diversity and inclusion.)

About Raise Financial Services

At Raise, we are building technology-led consumer products & infrastructure services to serve Indians with Financial Services across financing, insurance, investing, payments and wealth.

We are building for the financially aware & financially literate users, largely focussing on the top 25 Mn+ tax paying residents in metros, urban cities & towns in india. Raise will offer consumer products & services that cater to these users, and will offer the same technology & infrastructure to partners in the startup ecosystem willing to take the experience to everyone in India.

Our focus is on 3 core aspects - build great products, deliver awesome experiences and provide exceptional customer services to our users.

Raise Financial Services is founded by Pravin Jadhav (ex-Founder, Managing Director & CEO of Paytm Money), Jay Prakash Gupta and Alok Pandey. We are backed by Founders & CEOs of leading technology startups like CRED, Flipkart, PhonePe, Pine Labs, Dream11, Zomato, Swiggy, Udaan, Freshworks, Freecharge, Jupiter, Shaadi, RazorPay and others. The company is also backed by institutional investors like Mirae Asset, Beenext, 3One4 Capital, Rocketship VC, Blume Ventures and others.

Connect with us: www.raiseholding.co

Learn more about our Investing Platform www.dhan.co

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