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# Associate Corporate Counsel at AHEAD

- **Company:** AHEAD
- **Location:** Gurugram, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/thinkahead/5d3e0c62-d623-46dd-b58e-8acfe5e7f3fd

## Job description

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.

## Key Responsibilities

Commercial contracts and negotiations

- Independently manage commercial matters from intake.
- Draft, review, revise, and negotiate IT and technology-related agreements, including reseller and distribution agreements, OEM and partner agreements, master services agreements, customer master product and services agreements, statements of work, subcontractor agreements, vendor agreements, non-disclosure agreements, professional-services agreements, cloud and SaaS agreements, licensing arrangements, and data-processing terms.
- Develop negotiation strategies, identify business objectives, explain trade-offs, propose fallback positions, and drive matters to timely resolution.
- Work with business and functional stakeholders to confirm operational feasibility, translate executed-contract obligations into downstream requirements, and maintain accurate negotiation and approval records.

Legal operations, risk and compliance management

- Maintain contract templates, clause libraries, playbooks, approval workflows, checklists, and contract lifecycle-management processes.
- Track legal issues, contractual obligations, renewals, notices, compliance deliverables, and remediation actions; provide practical, risk-based advice and conduct relevant legal research.
- Support external counsel as needed, including instructions, budgets, and work-product management.
- Conduct legal research and monitor developments affecting AHEAD’s technology-services business, contracting practices, privacy obligations, employment matters, and regulatory compliance.

India employment law and compliance

- Advise on applicable Indian central and state employment laws, labour codes, Shops and Establishments requirements, wages and working time, social security, maternity and leave, contractor arrangements, and related registrations, notices, returns, and records.
- Review and localize global HR policies, employment templates, and processes for India, identifying conflicts and recommending compliant alternatives.
- Partner with HR, payroll, and compliance teams to address recurring gaps, maintain an India employment-law compliance calendar, and deliver practical training and guidance to business teams.
- Communicate clearly with senior stakeholders and manage competing priorities across matters, teams, and time zones.

Required qualifications and competencies

- LLB, JD, LLM, or equivalent law degree from an accredited institution.
- 4–7 years of post-qualification legal experience, preferably in-house in a technology, IT services, cloud, managed-services, or similarly complex commercial environment.
- Substantial knowledge of commercial contract negotiation and management, including the ability to independently manage matters from intake through completion.
- Working knowledge of Indian data privacy and data protection laws, Indian employment laws, and applicable compliance requirements.
- Practical understanding of employment matters including employee relations, performance and disciplinary processes, termination, contractor workforce issues, and employment documentation.
- Self-regulating, responsible, accountable, and able to work independently while managing a high volume of matters, deadlines, and competing priorities.
- Strong risk analysis, commercial judgment, organization, attention to detail, discretion, written and verbal communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to explain legal concepts to non-lawyers, negotiate effectively, create practical guidance and processes, and collaborate across India, the US, and the UK.

## Preferred qualifications and experience

- SQE qualification or experience demonstrating familiarity with the law of England and Wales, with the judgment to identify when UK-qualified advice or external counsel is required.
- Experience supporting commercial contracts and employment matters in a multinational organization.
- Experience with cloud, SaaS, data processing, cybersecurity, intellectual property, managed services, contract lifecycle-management systems, legal operations, or compliance reporting.

Why AHEAD:

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

India Employment Benefits include: Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership

## About AHEAD

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AHEAD is an engineering-led digital platform company that accelerates enterprise strategy into execution across AI, cloud, data, security, and infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/PE-backed; no public funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Dan Adamany (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: IT Services & Consulting, Digital Transformation, Managed Services
- **Target customers**: Fortune 1000 enterprises, large-scale organizations with complex, multi-domain IT estates (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To accelerate strategy into execution, engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security — building what others only blueprint.

## Products & Services
- **AI Transformation**: A unified AI fabric to accelerate AI from idea to business value, including AI-enabled infrastructure and data readiness. *(Service)*
- **AI Enabled Infrastructure**: Scalable, resilient architectures supporting high-performance workloads from core to edge. *(Service)*
- **Data Platform Modernization**: Governed data platforms that turn raw data into trustworthy insight and AI readiness. *(Service)*
- **Secure and Resilient Architectures**: Platforms designed to reduce risk, limit impact, and recover quickly. *(Service)*
- **Platform and Workload Modernization**: Modernizing platforms and optimizing workloads across cloud, data center, and edge. *(Service)*
- **Operational Excellence**: Frictionless operations, predictable performance, and optimized spend. *(Service)*
- **Managed Services**: Ongoing management of critical systems over their entire lifecycle. *(Service)*
- **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Accelerators, financial models, scorecards, integration-ready code, and policy-as-code. *(Software/Tooling)*
- **400+ APIs & Custom Offerings**: Frameworks that integrate multiple platforms for automation, data sandboxes, and ML/AI exploration. *(Platform)*

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Private company)
- **Key Metric**: **Gross Revenue** of **$3.7 billion** (as of 2024, following the acquisition of CDI); **2,500+ employees** across 40 locations globally.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners with **200+ technology providers** (e.g., major cloud, data center, security, and automation vendors). The company is backed by private equity (likely a growth/PE structure, though specific investors are not named in the provided materials).
- **Growth Signals**: Scaled from a Midwest focus to national and international coverage through **12 acquisitions since 2019**; expanded service portfolio into data, app dev, custom manufacturing, and global logistics via M&A; recent acquisition of CDI (New York-based) added significant scale.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Orchestration Expertise**: Ability to stitch together complex, multi-vendor systems into cohesive, scalable architectures — a differentiator in an increasingly fragmented IT landscape.
- **Full-Stack Engineering**: Deep expertise across AI, cloud, data, security, infrastructure, and operations, applied in an integrated fashion.
- **Unified Delivery Model**: One team, one roadmap, one owner held accountable for driving outcomes, from strategy through implementation and ongoing operations.
- **Consultative Approach**: Engages early to architect transformation roadmaps, not just as a reseller of hardware/software.
- **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Unique accelerators and code libraries that de-risk and speed up client digital initiatives.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Accelerating enterprise AI adoption; expanding managed services; deepening capabilities in data, security, and cloud; continuing M&A strategy to add geographic coverage and new service lines.
- **Direction for growth**: Becoming the go-to strategic partner for Fortune 1000 leaders navigating the complexity of modern IT, with a focus on accountability from design to operations.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Engineering-led organization with a strong emphasis on technical depth, ownership, and accountability. Described as a "game-changer in tech" that values innovation and execution.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Likely hybrid/office-based given the nature of client-facing consulting and infrastructure work; 40 global locations suggest flexibility in location.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies across AI, cloud, security, and data at massive scale; exposure to Fortune 1000 clients and complex transformations; strong focus on IP development and engineering excellence; clear growth trajectory through acquisitions and expansion.

## Sources
1. [AHEAD Official Website](https://www.ahead.com/)
2. [AHEAD Story Page](https://www.ahead.com/story/)
3. [AHEAD Leadership Page](https://www.ahead.com/leadership/)
4. [AHEAD Careers Page](https://jobs.lever.co/thinkahead)

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