--- title: 'Legal Associate at Synthio Labs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/legal-associate-synthio-labs-india-99e9p93w21ws' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-28' --- # Legal Associate at Synthio Labs - **Company:** Synthio Labs - **Location:** India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/synthio-labs/am9icG9zdDqtMEVNvGTDNlJLWBL07y5Q ## Job description ## About the Role Synthio Labs is looking for a Legal Associate to own and lead the company's end-to-end legal function. The ideal candidate will be based in India and have 5+ years of legal experience, including experience working with US-based companies, preferably in pharma, life sciences, healthcare ## Key Responsibilities - Own the end-to-end legal function and provide legal guidance to the leadership team and business. - Draft, review, negotiate, and manage customer, vendor, partner, NDA, MSA, SOW, DPA, and other commercial agreements, particularly US contracts. - Advise on contractual risks, liability, indemnification, IP, confidentiality, data protection, and other key legal provisions. - Manage vendor and partner legal engagements, including negotiations and onboarding. - Support employee-related legal matters, including employment agreements, consulting agreements, policies, employee relations, and terminations. - Manage ESOP/equity-related matters, including grants, vesting, exercise, employee equity documentation, and coordination with equity platforms and external counsel. - Support fundraising, corporate governance, board matters, shareholder matters, and other corporate transactions. - Oversee IP, compliance, privacy, and regulatory matters. - Support pharma/life sciences customer requirements and contractual compliance. - Manage external legal counsel, legal budgets, and specialist advisors. - Establish scalable legal processes, templates, approval workflows, and contract management practices. - Proactively identify and mitigate legal and business risks as the company scales. ## What We’re Looking For - 5+ years of relevant legal experience, preferably with leading pharma/life sciences companies. - Prior experience working with US-based companies is required. - Strong understanding of US commercial contracts and business practices. - Experience with corporate governance, employment, IP, privacy, compliance,ESOP/equity, and regulatory matters. - Experience working with US customers, vendors, employees, or cross-border transactions is strongly preferred. - Strong commercial contract drafting and negotiation skills. - Ability to independently manage matters end-to-end and work closely with senior leadership. - Strong business judgment, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills. - Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment is a plus. ## About Synthio Labs ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Synthio Labs builds an agentic AI platform for life sciences, enabling compliant, empathetic engagement between pharmaceutical companies and their HCPs and patients. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, Y Combinator-backed) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Supreet Deshpande (CEO), Rajashekar Vasantha (CTO), Sahitya Sridhar (Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Life Sciences / Healthcare AI, Pharmaceutical Commercial Operations - **Target customers**: B2B – Enterprise pharma GTM teams (Medical Affairs, Commercial, Patient Support, Field Teams) - **Mission or purpose statement**: “Reimagine how pharma engages with its most important stakeholders – physicians and patients” by delivering an always-on AI medical expert that provides compliant, accurate, and science-first engagement. ## Products & Services - **Jarvis**: Voice AI copilot for field teams (SaaS) - **Ather**: Voice AI agents for HCP engagement (SaaS) - **Helix**: Voice AI agents for patient support (SaaS) - **Simulation Studio**: AI digital twins for market research (SaaS) - **Polaris HQ**: Natural language interface to query internal data (“Talk to your data”) (SaaS) - **Atlas**: AI-Ready HCP 360 – unified customer view (SaaS) All products are multimodal (voice, chat, video) and purpose-built for regulated healthcare workflows. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: $5M total funding (Seed rounds, latest in November 2025) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Elevation Capital (lead), Y Combinator, and other seed investors; integrations with Veeva, Salesforce, MedInfo systems - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 866.7% YoY (26–29 employees as of mid-2026); 5,000 patients engaged in first 48 hours for a launch campaign; strong starter kit uptake and adherence lift. ## Competitive Advantages - **Purpose-built for regulated healthcare**: Every response is grounded in approved label content, with automated verification and adverse event escalation built in. - **Clinical reasoning engine**: Benchmarked on USMLE-style evaluations; delivers precise medical understanding and empathetic conversations. - **System of Context**: Creates a holistic customer-journey map across the entire engagement ecosystem, syncing with Veeva, Salesforce, and enterprise CRMs. - **Founding team expertise**: Ex-McKinsey, ex-ZS, and AI researchers from Amazon; combined 25+ years in life sciences and frontier LLM building. ## Strategic Focus - Expand the agentic AI platform to cover more pharma workflows (field, HCP, patient, marketing, commercial ops). - Deepen compliance and safety features to maintain trust with regulators and pharma partners. - Scale headcount rapidly (current 26–29, high growth trajectory) with an emphasis on engineering, AI, and forward-deployed roles. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Fast, agile, high growth” – Y Combinator startup with ownership mentality; employees are encouraged to fill gaps, challenge decisions, and push projects forward without waiting for permission. - **Remote/Hybrid**: Primarily San Francisco office with remote roles available (some roles listed as remote). - **AI-first environment**: Everyone uses AI as a “second brain” – from coding to docs to debugging; AI is treated as a teammate. - **Impact**: Work directly on products that help patients navigate care and doctors make better decisions, with a focus on safety and empathy. - **Perks**: Autonomy, responsibility, hands-on experience with frontier AI tools; exposure to top pharma clients and real-world deployment. ## Sources 1. [synthiolabs.com/careers](https://synthiolabs.com/careers) 2. [synthiolabs.com](https://synthiolabs.com/) 3. [linkedin.com/company/synthiolabs](https://linkedin.com/company/synthiolabs) 4. 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