Commercial Legal Apprentice

About HighLevel:
HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies, entrepreneurs and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. Today, HighLevel supports SMBs across 150+ countries, fueling community-driven growth rooted in real customer outcomes.
To date, businesses operating on HighLevel have generated over $7 billion in ecosystem value, demonstrating the impact of shared infrastructure at scale. By centralizing conversations, automation and intelligence into one system, we help businesses move faster, reduce complexity and execute efficiently.
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Our People
With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, HighLevel operates as a global, remote-first organization built for speed and ownership. We value initiative, clarity and execution, creating space for ambitious people to build systems that support millions of businesses worldwide. Here, innovation thrives, ideas are celebrated and people come first, no matter where they call home.
Our Impact
Every month, HighLevel enables more than 1.5 billion messages, 200 million leads and 20 million conversations for the more than 1 million businesses we support. Behind those numbers are real people building independence, expanding opportunity and creating measurable impact. We’re proud to be a part of that.
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About the Role:
We're looking for a Commercial Legal Apprentice to join our Legal team for a 6-month apprenticeship.  This role supports HighLevel’s Legal Team across two core areas: go-to-market contract management (affiliate, sponsorship, event, and speaker agreements) and vendor contract review (MSAs, Order Forms, SOWs, NDAs, and Amendments). It is a hands-on, learning-intensive position designed for candidates with a genuine interest in contract law, technology transactions, and legal operations.
Please note that you may be required to accommodate the schedules of cross-functional teams and external stakeholders across IST, EST, PST, and CDT time zones.
 
Programme Details:
Work Type: Apprenticeship
Department: Legal
Sub Department: Legal
Duration: 6 months
Monthly Stipend: 45000 INR
Location: India (Remote)
Programme Start: October 2026
Schedule: Monday - Friday, 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM IST
 
Responsibilities:
The Commercial Apprentice will support the Legal Team across contract management, compliance, legal operations, and cross-functional collaboration, spanning both go-to-market and vendor agreements. Key responsibilities include:
Assist with drafting, reviewing, and updating agreements, including affiliate agreements, service contracts, supplier agreements, sponsorship agreements, event contracts, speaker agreements, NDAs, MSAs, Order Forms, SOWs, and Amendments, ensuring alignment with HighLevel's legal and business requirements.
Identify key commercial and legal terms, flag deviations from HighLevel's standard positions, and escalate questions or non-standard provisions to senior team members using approved playbooks, toolkits, and fallback positions.
Assist with reviewing counterparty redlines on draft agreements, prepare comparison summaries highlighting material changes, and assist in preparing internal briefing notes on negotiation points, risk implications, and recommended responses.
Track and compare contract terms and proposed deviations against approved templates, playbooks, and fallback positions. Maintain a working understanding of MSA structures and how child documents (Order Forms, SOWs, Amendments) interact with the parent agreement.
Coordinate with internal stakeholders across Affiliate, Events, Marketing, Procurement, Finance, IT, and Security teams to gather context, confirm requirem