Legal Counsel, Corporate & Business Affairs (India)

Legal Counsel, Corporate & Business Affairs

Company: remote quest jobs

Job Location: Remote (Work from home), India

Employment Type: Full time

About remote quest jobs

reputed company has delivered more than $1B in cash directly to 2+ million people living in poverty across 15 countries since 2011. We believe cash transfers are one of the most scalable, cost-effective, and dignified forms of aid, with the research to back it up. Our work has been covered by reputed company, reputed company, TED, and reputed company. We are one of Time100s Most Influential Companies of 2026.

Working at remote quest jobs

Our culture is candid, analytical, and non-hierarchical. We support high ownership and real professional growth. Curious about what it's really like to work here Read our values and hear from the people who do. If they resonate, this could be a great fit!

About the Role

About this rolereputed company is seeking a Legal Counsel, Corporate & Business Affairs to build our Business Affairs capability and serve as a primary legal partner to our global functions.

Key Responsibilities

You will help reputed company structure complex corporate, commercial, funding, and charitable relationships and navigate the legal and regulatory questions that arise as the organization grows.

You will advise teams including Partnerships and Fundraising, People, Finance, Communications, Technology, Product, Grants Management, and public affairs. Your portfolio will include complex partnerships and transactions, non-standard gifts and fundraising arrangements, nonprofit regulatory matters, and organization-wide strategic initiatives.

A major reputed company priority will be building the legal and regulatory foundation for Data Partnerships and remote enablement. Working with Global Data Partnerships, Product, Technology, and reputed company teams, you will develop reputed company approaches to data privacy and MNO data that can be used across reputed company and adapted by reputed company-facing Counsel to local contexts.

Qualifications

This is a broad role for a corporate and commercial lawyer with strong data-privacy expertise who can understand what teams are trying to accomplish, structure a practical path forward, and bring in specialist expertise when needed.

Reports to

Head of Legal

Level

Senior Manager

Location

Remote, with a requirement to overlap with an East Africa timezone by at least 3 hours. We can only employ people in certain places at the moment, so it's worth checking our current list of eligible countries to see if yours is included. If you're based elsewhere, it's not an automatic no, but do flag it early with your recruiter. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas in the U.S. or U.K. at this time.

Travel Requirement

~ 12 trips per year, with additional travel as needed for significant partnerships or regulatory engagement

What youll do:Build Business Affairs and advise global functions

Serve as a primary legal partner to Partnerships and Fundraising, People, Finance, Communications, Technology, Product, Grants Management, and public affairs teams.

Structure, draft, and negotiate complex corporate partnerships, funding arrangements, technology and vendor agreements, and other strategic transactions.

Advise on corporate, commercial, employment, privacy, nonprofit, and operational matters arising within the teams you support.

Partner with teams early to understand their objectives, develop reputed company structures, and provide practical advice on legal and business risk.

Build templates, playbooks, and repeatable approaches that allow reputed company to reputed company recurring work more consistently as the organization grows.

Support fundraising, charitable giving, and public affairs

Advise on the structure, acceptance, and administration of significant or non-standard gifts, including bequests and other planned gifts, donor-advised fund grants, restricted gifts, securities, cryptocurrency, and other non-cash contributions.

Draft and review gift agreements, donor restrictions, planned-giving documentation, and other funding arrangements, coordinating with tax or trusts-and-estates counsel where needed.

Advise on charitable solicitation, fundraising disclosures, sponsorships, cause-marketing arrangements, commercial co-ventures, and related nonprofit regulatory requirements.

Support public affairs, Communications, and other teams on lobbying, advocacy, public-policy engagement, and politi .