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# Senior Associate Legal at Zeta

- **Company:** Zeta
- **Location:** Mumbai, India / Bengaluru, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/zeta/c92d46af-5d64-4152-bc75-c9844f1dccf7

## Job description

## About us

Build the future of banking.

[Zeta](https://www.zeta.tech/in/) is a next-generation banking technology company providing cloud-native, fully stackable processing and core banking platforms for issuers. With a focus on scalability, compliance, and innovation, Zeta empowers financial institutions to modernize their technology infrastructure and deliver secure, seamless digital banking experiences.

Our impact runs at real-world scale. Today, over 25 million cards are live on Zeta-powered platforms across 7 countries, supported by a passionate team of 1,700+ Zetanauts across India, the US, EMEA, and Asia. Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, Mastercard, and other reputed strategic investors, we reached a valuation of $2 billion in 2025.

Our focus is on establishing product lines that focus on key outcomes by addressing real customer pain points, modernizing legacy systems, and strengthening core fundamentals. As a result, our systems and platforms support a wide range of banking and payments capabilities, including:

1. Tachyon, our cloud-native banking stack built for population-scale systems
2. Cipher, our unified authentication platform for secure, high-volume banking environments
3. Digital Credit as a Service, enabling banks to launch credit lines on UPI
4. Elena, our intelligent and conversational AI platform for banking
5. Pixel, India’s first digital-native credit card, launched in partnership with HDFC Bank, for whom we also revamped their PayZapp mobile app: Winner of the Celent Model Bank Award for Payments Innovation 2024
6. Sparrow, the leading card experience for non-prime cardholders in the US

…and more across cards, payments, lending, and core banking.

We are an engineering-first organization that values ownership, bias for action, and long-term thinking. Together, we solve some of the hardest problems in banking tech. Our culture is built around trust, collaboration, and creating the conditions for you to drive impact proportionate to your potential. Reinforcing our commitment to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace, we have been consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work.

If you want to build cutting-edge banking tech that enables banks to serve millions reliably, securely, and at a population scale, Zeta is your playground.

If you would like to learn more about how we have grown and evolved over the years, [watch our journey here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8RZCTbRzw8). You can also explore [our website](https://www.zeta.tech/in/) and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zetasuite/), [Instagram,](https://www.instagram.com/lifeatzeta)[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@Zetasuite), and [X](https://x.com/zetasuite?lang=en).

About the Role: We are looking for a Senior Associate level legal professional who can act as a trusted business advisor who works collaboratively across business, sales, and other functions and has the knowledge and experience required to take on a variety of legal assignments, such as  employment law advisory, intellectual property advisory and portfolio management, transactional support and assistance, SaaS Agreements with potential customers of Zeta, and agreements with SaaS Vendors who provide SaaS to Zeta for internal consumption or integration within Zeta’s SaaS Offerings.

## Responsibilities

- Drafting, negotiating, managing internal and external stakeholders, as well as managing external legal advisors assisting the company on such assignments.

- Provide legal advice and opinions on all legal matters that impact the business and provide innovative solutions to minimize/manage the legal risks involved with the company’s business operations in various jurisdictions around the world

- To communicate effectively with internal stakeholders (such as management, leadership teams, Finance, HR, Information Security etc) and external stakeholders (customers/clients, vendors, investor representatives, industry association representatives).

- To constantly improve and evolve the drafts and templates created by the legal team, from learnings from each customer. Strive to simplify drafting in order to achieve quicker turn-around-times and to make legal agreements easier for non-legal stakeholders to understand.

## Skills

- The candidate must have an excellent grasp of laws and market practices pertaining to a variety of technology agreements such as SaaS Master Service Agreements, Professional Services Agreements, Software Development Agreements; data protection laws and issues under a contract, intellectual property and other affiliated areas.

- The candidate should have the ability to work independently and within a team as and when required and must have unimpeachable integrity, honesty and the ability to maintain strict confidentiality.

- The candidate should have excellent verbal and written communication skills in order to communicate with persons across different walks of life and cultures and in order to understand business requirements and communicate the required solutions.

- Ability to explain contract risks and obligations to non-lawyers.

- Attention to detail, speed, and efficiency in reviewing and drafting documents.

## Experience and Qualifications

- 5 year [BA.LLB](http://ba.llb/) (Hons) degree from a reputed national law university/college. (Mandatory Requirement) LLM or postgraduate degree in law from a reputed international law university specifically in the field of technology law. (Optional Requirement).

- Post Qualification Experience: 7 years In a top tier law firm, preferably within the technology law practice of the firm or at the least some level of experience in technology contracts; and/or As an in-house counsel in a Technology Company (preferably, SaaS however Non-SaaS technology company experience will also be accepted) People with prior experience in law firms, but currently working as in-house counsel will be preferred over people with no prior law firm experience.

## Equal Opportunity

Zeta is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, and communities to apply and believe that a diverse workforce is key to our success

## About Zeta

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zeta Global is an AI-powered marketing cloud that unifies identity, intelligence, and activation to help enterprises drive measurable growth across the full customer lifecycle.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: ZETA)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (3 Park Ave, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10016)
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: David A. Steinberg and John Sculley (former Apple CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: AI-powered marketing technology / enterprise SaaS
- **Target Customers**: B2B enterprises (CMOs and marketing teams)
- **Mission / Purpose**: “Accelerate Brand Growth” by making modern marketing easier, more intelligent, and provably effective.

## Products & Services
- **Zeta Data Cloud**: A proprietary identity graph and data platform that builds intelligence around individuals, not segments, for precision at scale.
- **Customer Data Platform (CDP)**: Turns fragmented data into a clear, actionable view of each customer journey.
- **Acquisition**: Profitable new customer targeting using better data and efficient, scalable activation.
- **Personalized Engagement**: Cross-channel campaigns optimized with real-time signals.
- **Loyalty**: Customer retention and advocacy through meaningful rewards and experiences.
- **Analytics**: Real-time optimization and provable ROI measurement across campaigns.

All offerings are delivered as a unified SaaS platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed in provided sources (public company; market cap available on financial platforms)
- **Key Metric**: Total employees – 2,000+ globally (as of 2026)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Co-founded by John Sculley (former Apple CEO); other institutional investors not listed in provided sources.
- **Growth Signals**: 142 active job openings across engineering, data science, customer solutions, and more; offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Hyderabad; expanding remote roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary AI & Identity Graph**: Zeta’s Data Cloud includes one of the industry’s most advanced identity graphs, enabling individual-level intelligence rather than segment-based targeting.
- **Unified Platform**: Covers the full customer lifecycle (acquisition, engagement, loyalty, analytics) in one system, breaking down traditional silos.
- **Provable ROI**: Every dollar spent is tied to real outcomes, giving decision-makers confidence in investment.
- **Scale & Enterprise Focus**: Designed for large brands with complex marketing needs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agentic Marketing**: Zeta positions itself as “the intelligence layer for agentic marketing,” guiding every decision, action, and outcome with AI.
- **Continuous Learning**: The platform continuously improves from real-time signals to deliver smarter advantages.
- **Cross-Channel Optimization**: Emphasis on unifying data and activation across channels for efficiency and measurable business outcomes.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Achieving the Impossible™” – a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment that encourages innovation and impact.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Active employee resource groups for Asian & Pacific Islander, sustainability, neurodiversity, Hispanic/Latinx, LGBTQIA+, and women.
- **Work Flexibility**: Mix of in-office (New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nashville, Hyderabad) and remote roles (e.g., VP Data Cloud Consulting – Remote US).
- **Engineering & Data Focus**: Large number of openings in software development, data engineering, data science, site reliability, and security engineering.
- **Growth Opportunity**: 2,000+ employees with 142 open positions, indicating scaling and career advancement potential.

## Sources
1. [Zeta Global Website](https://www.zetaglobal.com/)
2. [Zeta Global – About Us](https://www.zetaglobal.com/about/)
3. [Zeta Global – Life at Zeta](https://www.zetaglobal.com/about/life-at-zeta/)
4. [Zeta Global Careers (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/zeta)
5. [Zeta Global Job Board (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zetaglobal)

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