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

We are expanding into the United States and are seeking a Solutions Architect who will serve as the technical anchor of our GoToMarket (GTM) presence in the region. 
This role blends handson engineering depth with customer engagement, solution design, and earlymarket ecosystem development. 

You will help customers and partners understand how Affinidi’s trust infrastructure enables secure, interoperable, and consentdriven digital experiences. You will support early experimentation, guide technical validation, and lead solution implementation.

You will also contribute insights that influence product direction, ecosystem strategy, and our overall GTM motion for the United States. 

Focus Area: Trusted Networks, Agentic Identity, and ProtocolFirst Architecture 

As the landscape evolves rapidly, Affinidi is building toward a future where humans, organisations, and autonomous agents interact through trustanchored protocols, verifiable identities, and consentpreserving delegation patterns. 

This role is central in helping customers understand and adopt this new paradigm. 

What You Will Champion 

You will help organisations grasp the shift toward: 

• Agentic identity and delegation patterns, enabling AI agents to act safely on behalf of humans and organisations. 
• A protocolfirst world grounded in emerging open standards such as UCP, AP2, A2A, MCP, and Agentic Commerce. 
• Consentdriven architectures that make it possible to verify identity, intent, and permissions across ecosystems. 
• Trusted networks and communities, where participants interact with cryptographic assurance rather than centralized trust assumptions. 

Across the industry, there is a rising need for decentralized trust mechanisms that establish provable realpersonhood, verifiable relationships, and resilient trust graphs - an effort reflected in the Linux Foundation’s work to advance decentralized trust solutions and proofofpersonhood models. [docs.affinidi.com] 

You will help educate, enable, and guide customers through this shift as they integrate trust, identity, consent, and agenttoagent communication patterns into their systems. 

What You Will Do 

Technical Engagement and PreSales 

• You will deliver accessible and compelling technical presentations and demonstrations. 
• You will listen to customer needs and translate them into secure and practical trustenabled solution designs. 
• You will lead proofs of concept, early pilots, and technical evaluations. 
• You will help unblock technical challenges in partnerled opportunities and strategic deals. 
• You will translate business objectives into clear technical implementation plans. 

Solution Design and Delivery 

• You will design secure, consentdriven architectures aligned with open standards (Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, governance frameworks). 
• You will build prototypes and demonstrations that show the value of trustfirst digital interaction patterns. 
• You will produce clear documentation including architecture diagrams, data flows, and compliance considerations. 
• You will guide deployments endtoend, ensuring successful adoption and integration. 

Customer, Partner, and Ecosystem Collaboration 

• You will work closely with engineering, architecture, and leadership teams across customer organisations. 
• You will represent Affinidi at workshops, summits, developer events, and technical community engagements. 
• You will contribute to building trusted developer communities that align with global opensource efforts to create decentralized trust infrastructure. [docs.affinidi.com] 
• You will help create reusable architectures and patterns that accelerate adoption. 

Internal Collaboration and Product Feedback 

• You will share insights with product and engineering teams to influence roadmap decisions. 
• You will collaborate with crossfunctional teams in a nosilos environment. 
• You will help refine our United States GTM motion. 

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have 

• At least 6 years of experience in technical customerfacing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Technical Consultant, or Software Engineer. 
• Experience designing scalable cloud architectures, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems. 
• Familiarity with modern web technologies, integration patterns and common database systems. 
• Experience with identity protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML), cryptography or emerging decentralized identity models is valuable. 
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex concepts for both technical and nontechnical audiences. 
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and shaping earlystage market strategy. 
• A passion for privacy, decentralized systems, trust frameworks, and responsible machine–human collaboration. 
• A desire to teach, uplift, and empower customers and communities. 

Why Join Us 

• You will serve as the technical foundation for Affinidi’s United States expansion. 
• You will help drive industry adoption of trustanchored, protocolfirst digital interactions. 
• You will work alongside global experts across digital identity, cryptography, AI, and decentralized trust systems. 
• You will influence not only Affinidi’s roadmap, but also the broader direction of a rapidly emerging trust ecosystem that is redefining how humans and intelligent systems collaborate. 
• You will play a meaningful role in shaping a world where digital interactions whether humantohuman, humantomachine, or machinetomachine are safe, consentdriven, and grounded in verifiable trust. 

If you are excited about decentralization, emerging protocols, trusted AI, and helping the world transition to a more secure and humancentered digital future, we would be delighted to speak with you.