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With a focus on scalability, compliance, and innovation, Zeta empowers financial institutions to modernize their technology infrastructure and deliver secure, seamless digital banking experiences.\nOur 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 bySoftBank Vision Fund, Mastercard, and other reputed strategic investors, we reached a valuation of $2 billion in 2025.\nOur 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:\n1. Tachyon, our cloud-native banking stack built for population-scale systems\n2. Cipher, our unified authentication platform for secure, high-volume banking environments\n3. Digital Credit as a Service, enabling banks to launch credit lines on UPI\n4.Elena, our intelligent and conversational AI platform for banking\n5. 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\n6. Sparrow, the leading card experience for non-prime cardholders in the US\n…and more across cards, payments, lending, and core banking.\nWe 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.\nIf 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.\nIf you would like to learn more about how we have grown and evolved over the years, watch our journey here. You can also explore our website and follow us on LinkedIn,Instagram,YouTube, andX .\nAbout the Role:\n We are looking for an 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.\nResponsibilities\nDrafting, negotiating, managing internal and external stakeholders, as well as managing external legal advisors assisting the company on such assignments.\n\nProvide 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\n\nTo 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).\n\nTo constantly improve and evolve the drafts and templates created by the legal team, from learnings from each customer. 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