Commercial Counsel - India
ElevenLabs
IndiaPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
OperationsCybersecurityObservabilityFulltime
Key highlights
- Experience: 7+ years post-qualification legal experience
- Location: Remote (India)
- Requirement: Law degree and qualification to practice law in India
- Valuation: $11B
- Benefit: Annual company offsite (past offsites in Croatia and Italy)
- Requirement: Previous experience with US Based or Global multinationals
Role overview
ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology through three main platforms: ElevenAgents for customer experience, ElevenCreative for content generation across 70+ languages, and ElevenAPI for developer access to audio models. Founded in 2023, the company has raised $781M with a valuation of $11B and is backed by prominent investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia. We are seeking an experienced Commercial Counsel to join our Legal Team in India to support complex commercial transactions, including SaaS, licensing, and strategic partnerships. In this role, you will help navigate legal and regulatory frameworks in the evolving field of AI, providing pragmatic advice to enable growth across India and the broader APAC region while collaborating with global colleagues.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, with a primary focus on GTM/Sales transactions in India, including enterprise customer contracts.
- Partner with sales, business development, and operations teams to design and implement strategies that support high-growth go-to-market initiatives.
- Monitor and interpret evolving region specific legal and regulatory developments, including data protection, technology, and AI-related frameworks, and apply this knowledge to contract drafting and risk assessment.
- Develop, maintain, and localize contract templates, playbooks, and policies to reflect regional requirements and industry best practices.
- Provide clear, pragmatic, and commercially focused legal advice to cross-functional teams, tailoring advice to enable responsible growth and innovation.
- Contribute to scaling the Legal Team’s commercial function, fostering a collaborative, solutions-oriented team culture.
Requirements
- Law degree and qualification to practice law in India.
- 7+ years of relevant post-qualification legal experience.
- Proven track record drafting and negotiating complex commercial and technology agreements.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise software licensing, SaaS, data protection, and intellectual property.
- Experience advising on privacy, cybersecurity, and cross-border data transfer issues.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
- Comfort in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities and tight deadlines.
- Curious about the future of AI and emerging technologies, have a strong sense of ownership with enthusiasm for applying your legal expertise to cutting-edge products.
- Have worked for a US Based or Global multinational out of India but have direct experience working with customers both in and outside the region.
- Experienced in navigating fast-paced, high-growth environments, with the ability to manage ambiguity and make informed, timely decisions.
- Comfortable working independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional and global colleagues.
- Proactive, business-minded, and committed to delivering practical solutions that support both compliance and commercial success.
- Hunger to be exceptional at your job.
Nice to have
- In-house experience in technology or SaaS strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Innovative culture: part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing boundaries.
- Growth paths: opportunities to drive impact beyond immediate role and responsibilities.
- Learning & development: annual discretionary stipend to support professional development.
- Social travel: annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year.
- Annual company offsite: annual team gathering in a new location (past offsites: Croatia and Italy).
- Co-working: monthly co-working stipend if not located near one of our main hubs.
Additional details
- ElevenLabs launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model.
- Served millions of users and thousands of businesses including Deutsche Telekom and Meta.
- Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth, and Sequoia.
- Raised $781M in funding; last valuation was $11B.
- ElevenAgents: enables businesses to deliver customer experiences with integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability to deploy voice and chat agents at scale.
- ElevenCreative: empowers speech, music, image, and video generation/editing across 70+ languages.
- ElevenAPI: gives developers access to AI audio foundational models.
- Team includes researchers, engineers, operators, IOI medalists, and ex-founders.
- Work philosophy: High-velocity (rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, minimal bureaucracy).
- Work philosophy: Impact not job titles (no tasks above or beneath you).
- Work philosophy: AI first (using AI across engineering, growth, and operations).
- Work philosophy: Excellence everywhere.
- Work philosophy: Global team (prioritizing talent over location).
- Location: Remote, can be executed from anywhere in India; particularly looking for candidates in Bengaluru, Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad.
- Equal opportunity employer: does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.