We are looking for a legally trained professional with strong corporate legal capabilities and company secretarial expertise. The ideal candidate should have a solid legal foundation, commercial acumen, and hands-on experience supporting multinational or global companies, rather than a purely company secretarial background. The role requires a pragmatic, business-enabling mindset and close collaboration with cross-functional teams.

This is a 6-9 month engagement, with potential for extension or conversion depending on business needs, and we are looking for someone who can quickly plug in and operate with minimal supervision.

This role is based out of Bengaluru, India.

Primary roles and responsibilities

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating diversified commercial contracts, MSAs. SOWs, NDAs, and other business vertical contracts including HR, Finance, Strategy, Business Development, Technology and Marketing, and provide clear, practical legal advice to respective business units on risks, compliance requirements, and best practices. · Act as the primary point of contact for legal advisory matters, providing clear, pragmatic guidance to business teams and ensuring continuity of legal support. Stay up to date on the relevant laws and collaborate with global internal stakeholders on compliance-related matters.
• Manage day-to-day legal operations, maintaining key legal and corporate records, and tracking compliance obligations across the organization.
• Communicate and coordinate with external legal counsels across all jurisdictions, manage instructions, and follow up on deliverables to ensure timely and cost-effective outcomes.
• Provide company secretarial support as required, primarily for India, ensuring continuity of core compliance and governance processes.
• Convene Board and General meetings, take minutes, draft notices, agenda, resolutions in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act, and rules thereunder. · Advise management and drive special projects including issuing shares, mergers, takeover, restructuring, anti-bribery and anti-money laundering matters, movement of registered office, incorporation of companies, dematerialization, and transfer and transmission of shares.
• Maintain statutory books, including register of members, directors, secretaries and shareholders with all the past and present shareholdings.
• Collect and manage disclosures, declarations and consents required under the Companies Act from the directors.
• Handle India-specific compliance matters and liaise with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Registrar of Companies, external auditors and advisors.
• Support compliances with all statutory requirements and advise directors and members on key managerial and corporate governance matters.

Essential Qualifications

• ACS/ FCS Membership of ICSI (preferred) and a Bachelor of Law from a recognised university (India).
• 5-8 years post-qualification experience, with strong exposure to legal advisory work and working knowledge of company secretarial functions.
• Experience in technology-driven companies and exposure to product or technology related legal matters (product counselling experience is a plus).
• Experience in drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts.
• Experience working in a multinational or global company environment is required.
• Strong communication, drafting, stakeholder management, and organizational skills.
• Ability and willingness to operate as a hybrid legal and corporate governance resource.
• Expertise in identifying & mitigating the legal risks and understand business challenges in evolving areas of law.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and operate in a fast-paced environment with minimal guidance.
• Working knowledge of FEMA regulations inward and outward remittance, fundraising transactions and export of services.
• This role reports to the Lead Legal Counsel based in Singapore.
• The role may require international travel up to 2 times per year.
• Work across time zones when required, with occasional coordination with global stakeholders. This is not a heavily time-zone-dependent role.
• Hybrid working model, with expectation to be in the Bengaluru office on a regular basis as per business needs.

What We Look For (Personality & Work Style)

• Easy-going, collaborative, and approachable
• Positive attitude with a business-enabling mindset
• Pragmatic, solution-oriented, flexible, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders as well as operational teams

Build security into the DNA of a privacy first technology company. 

Affinidi is building the infrastructure for the next generation of digital identity and AI Trust Frameworks.  We enable individuals and organisations to own, control, and share verifiable data and ensure Agentic solutions can be trusted. Our technology sits at the intersection of decentralised identity, cryptography, and AI. Security isn't a support function here; it is a core product value. 

We are looking for a Manager, Security Engineering to lead our Application, Platform, and Offensive Security functions. If you want to own a broad, meaningful security remit at a company where what you build genuinely matters to people's digital lives, then this is the role for you. 

What You'll Own 

Product & Application Security You'll embed security engineers within Engineering teams operating a shift-left model, reviewing architecture, building threat models, integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines, and driving vulnerability management to ensure releases are never blocked by avoidable risk. 

Platform Security (AWS) Working closely with Platform Engineering, your team will enforce least-privilege IAM, network security, secrets management, and infrastructure hardening across our AWS environment by triaging, classifying, and remediating risks with speed and precision. 

Offensive Security You'll run repeatable cycles of penetration testing and red-team cyber exercises for production services, using both internal capability and external partners. Your team will leverage AI tooling for threat modelling, attack surface monitoring, and adversarial simulation. 

Team Leadership You'll lead a diverse team of security professionals through mentoring individuals, setting SMART objectives, and building a culture of experimentation, reflection, and continuous improvement. You'll also contribute to the broader Security and Technology Operations leadership group. 

Security Strategy & Governance As a member of our Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) Committee, you'll contribute to our ISO27001 programme, drive security maturity initiatives, and ensure compliance with GDPR, DPDPA, and PDPA requirements within your scope. 

What Makes This Role Interesting 

• AI meets security - You'll develop strategies to exploit AI for security operations and defend against AI-driven threats. LLM risk, AI red-teaming, and adversarial simulation are active parts of your brief. 
• Real cryptographic depth - Affinidi's stack includes applied cryptography and distributed identity infrastructure. This is not commodity security work. 
• Cross-functional influence - You'll work across Engineering, Platform, Legal, and Governance, building partnerships that accelerate delivery while keeping security first. 
• Ownership with support - You'll have strategic input, budget accountability for tooling, and direct access to the Director of Security and Technology Operations. 

What We're Looking For 

Experience 

• 12+ years in technical security roles spanning application security, infrastructure/platform security, and offensive security 
• Proven experience leading and growing security engineering teams 
• Hands-on background in secure architecture, threat modelling, and SDLC security integration 
• Experience operating in AWS environments with distributed systems and microservices 
• Familiarity with AI security risks and tooling (OWASP LLM Top 10, security-focused AI tools) 
• Strong cryptography knowledge; applied cryptography experience is a strong advantage 

Frameworks & Standards 

• ISO27001, NIST CSF, OWASP - implementation or management experience required 
• Regulatory data privacy frameworks (GDPR, DPDPA, PDPA) - working knowledge 

Tooling Familiarity AWS Platform, WIZ · CrowdStrike · Snyk · Burp Suite · AWS Security · GitLab and GitHub · Rust · TypeScript/Node.js, Flutter/Dart, CoPilot, and mainstream LLM’s, Microsoft Enterprise tools. 

You as a leader and operator 

• You communicate complex security concepts clearly across all levels of seniority 
• You make fast, well-reasoned decisions with imperfect information 
• You build win-win partnerships and influence without authority 
• You hold people to high standards while supporting their growth 
• A degree in IT or a related field, or equivalent experience 

Why Affinidi 

• Work on technology that is redefining how identity and data work on the internet 
• Join a globally distributed, senior engineering culture with genuine ownership 
• Hybrid working from Berlin with a strong async-first collaboration model 
• Competitive compensation and equity participation 
• A security team that is genuinely valued, not an afterthought