Job Post: Counsel at Uber, Gurgaon [8 Years PQE]: Apply Now!

05 Dec 2023

Categories: Jobs

About Uber

Uber Technologies, Inc. provides ride-hailing services, food delivery, and freight transport. It is headquartered in San Francisco and operates in approximately 70 countries and 10,500 cities worldwide.

About the Opportunity

The APAC Product & Commercial team oversees all product-related work in the APAC as well as offering key leadership on APAC-wide commercial deals and strategic projects. You will be working with the brightest product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders across business lines, countries, and teams, to create and maintain the best product experience for users, whilst effectively mitigating risk.

Roles & Responsibilities

Managing the legal reviews of new products or features for the Mobility and Delivery business across APAC. Provide timely and commercial counsel to your stakeholders and implement timely mitigation strategies to manage legal risk.
Project manage complex product rollouts and assignments across APAC. Work with local legal teams and specialist legal counsels to represent the region on all things Product-related.
Act as a liaison between different cross-functional departments and work collaboratively but decisively to present solutions to the business.
Draft and negotiate commercial contracts, terms, templates, and playbooks on various commercial deals and product-related initiatives.
Understand, interpret, and apply current laws and regulations as applicable to Uber’s business models in APAC and translate them to a product context.

Eligibility

Relevant post-qualification experience at a reputed law firm or in-house (ideally 8+ years, preferably with in-house experience).
Ideally, prior product counseling experience in tech and/or all-around experience dealing with a wide range of legal issues and practice areas in India and other APAC regions (for example, consumer protection, litigation, antitrust, privacy, employment).
Commercially minded, with the ability to translate complex legal issues and ambiguity into clear and simple advice for a variety of audiences.
Comfortable dealing with the unknown and not afraid to think ‘out of the box’. Adept at providing solutions that balance the strategic objective with risk mitigations.
Demonstrated ability to make decisions and influence, persuade, and build consensus at an executive level as well as thrive in high-impact/high-profile situations.