Vice President - Senior Technology Transactions Attorney, Associate General Counsel

EXL is seeking an experienced Senior Technology Transactions Attorney to serve as Associate General Counsel within its Legal & Compliance team, reporting to the EVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary. This is a senior leadership role combining hands-on responsibility for EXL’s most complex sell-side technology transactions with people leadership over the broader commercial contracting function. The successful candidate will be a member of the Legal leadership team, a trusted advisor to senior business leaders, and a key escalation point for high-stakes negotiations across EXL’s global portfolio.

• Directly negotiate some of EXL’s largest and most complex sell-side technology outsourcing agreements, including master services agreements (MSAs), statements of work (SOWs), professional services agreements, and SaaS/technology licensing arrangements.

• Structure and negotiate sophisticated data use rights, data licensing, and data ownership provisions, including for derived data, model training data, and analytics outputs.

• Serve as primary embedded legal support to one or more business units, advising on contractual risk allocation, liability caps, indemnification, limitation of remedies, service levels, and IP ownership.

• Advise on data privacy and security requirements embedded in commercial agreements, including HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and other sector-specific regulatory obligations.

• Manage and mentor a team of commercial contracting attorneys, overseeing workload distribution, quality of negotiated terms, and professional development.

• Act as a primary escalation point during high-stakes or stalled negotiations, working directly with clients, outside counsel, and business leadership to break logjams and reach commercially sound resolutions.

• Set negotiation strategy and risk tolerance guidance for the broader contracting team, ensuring consistency across deals and business units.

• Develop and maintain playbooks, templates, and fallback positions for recurring contract types, including MSAs, SOWs, SaaS agreements, and data use provisions.