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Associate Corporate Counsel Jobs in Hyderabad, Telangana, India at Pegasystems
Title: Associate Corporate Counsel
Company: Pegasystems
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Meet Our Team
As a contributor to Pega’s Legal team, you will work alongside a tight-knit group of highly talented professionals and top lawyers from across the globe handling all aspects of the Company’s legal, regulatory, corporate and compliance matters . It’s a dynamic team with a diverse set of resources creating space for everyday learning.
Picture Yourself At Pega
As Associate Corporate Counsel, you will be part of the legal team working alongside experienced professionals in a fast-paced, high-growth public software company on corporate, procurement, regulatory and other legal matters, interacting with stakeholders spread across different jurisdictions, whilst reporting into the Head of Legal, India.
At Pega, we actively explore and embrace emerging AI capabilities with curiosity, responsibility, and a drive for meaningful innovation. You will work in an environment where AI‑enabled tools are used to enhance learning, improve engineering efficiency, and support better decision‑making across the cloud platform.
We expect engineers to apply critical thinking to all AI‑generated outputs—validating accuracy, quality, and relevance before applying them in production environments. We view AI maturity as a spectrum, progressing from foundational adoption toward more strategic, advocacy‑driven integration, and you will play an active role in that journey.
What You’ll Do At Pega
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts with third party service providers.
- Assist the legal department team in handling corporate advisory and compliance matters in different jurisdictions.
- Provide guidance on labour laws and assist stakeholders in ensuring compliance.
- Evaluate the impact of evolving legal and statutory regulations pertaining to the relevant business function and highlight the same for implementation within the Company.
- Work with the Head of Legal, India on various matters including drafting department processes, support for the Global ESG, working group effectively addressing legal issues in a timely and proactive manner, identifying and mitigating risks and providing training to stakeholders on regulatory or policy matters.
- Developing the organization’s policies on global Trademarks,
- Developing one – pagers SOPs for industry-specific issues, corporate governance.
- Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders on new labour laws.
Who You Are
- Candidate with excellent knowledge and understanding of corporate law and procedures.
- Experience in analysis, review, and drafting of complex vendor contracts required.
- Knowledge of applicable legal and regulatory requirements relating to contracts, technology, trademarks and security.
- An individual who is reliable and dependable as a team member and takes accountability to complete assignments with a sense of urgency without compromising on quality.
- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills.
- Strong sense of integrity.
- Flexibility to take on special projects/additional responsibilities with an eagerness to learn.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail with an ability to work independently.
- Sound judgement and ability to analyse situations and information.
- Works well with internal “clients” and other stakeholders.
- At Pega, we actively explore and embrace emerging AI capabilities with curiosity, responsibility, and a drive for meaningful innovation. You will work in an environment where AI‑enabled tools are used to enhance learning, improve engineering efficiency, and support better decision‑making across the cloud platform.
- We expect engineers to apply critical thinking to all AI‑generated outputs—validating accuracy, quality, and relevance before applying them in production environments. We view AI maturity as a spectrum, progressing from foundational adoption toward more strategic, advocacy‑driven integration, and you will play an active role in that journey.
What You’ve Accomplished
- A qualified lawyer with 8+ years of relevant practical legal experience gained inhouse with GCCs and / or with top ranked law firms.
- Drafting and reviewing standard operating procedures (SOP), board and shareholder meeting documents, minutes of meetings, rejoinders, legal trackers, global compliance sheets and others.
- Research on changing laws and support projects as requested by the respective departments.
- Preparing statutory forms/documents and support corporate/ government filings.
- Collaborate with global legal team and assist in global compliance/filings.
- Provide support in creating a repository of documents for India and Global Statutory Audit.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams and partners both internally and externally.
Pega Offers You
- A rapidly growing yet well-established business.
- Continuous learning and development opportunities.
- An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment.
- Competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay + bonus incentive and employee equity.
- An opportunity to work in an organization that actively invests in AI‑enabled learning, innovation, and responsible adoption across its engineering practices
