Overview
This role involves hands-on, business-facing commercial legal support for the organization. The successful candidate will partner closely with commercial teams while supporting a broad range of legal matters across the wider business. The role is ideal for a flexible self-starter with a global outlook, strong stakeholder management skills, and a collaborative working style.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, amendments, vendor/procurement agreements, NDAs, DPAs, novations, referral/partnership agreements, terminations, guarantees, and ancillary schedules.
- Serve as a key point of contact for commercial deal work, providing clear, risk-based advice and pragmatic alternatives to accelerate safe, high-quality outcomes.
- Create, maintain, and continuously improve templates, clause libraries, playbooks, and negotiation guidance to drive consistency and speed.
- Partner with Product, Commercial, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and InfoSec on go-to-market initiatives to ensure contract terms reflect operational realities and regulatory requirements.
- Support data and privacy contracting work (e.g., DPAs, data transfer mechanisms, sub-processor and security schedules) in coordination with Privacy and Security.
- Embed regulatory considerations (e.g., payments/fintech frameworks, consumer protection) into commercial terms; coordinate with Compliance on AML/sanctions and other mandatory provisions.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer in a relevant jurisdiction with 5–7 years of professional experience at a law firm and/or in-house within financial services, fintech, or tech-enabled businesses.
- Strong experience drafting and negotiating cross-border commercial contracts in fast-paced environments.
- Solid grounding in general commercial, contractual, and compliance issues, with the ability to translate legal risk into actionable business guidance.
- Familiarity with payments/financial services/fintech is desirable; comfort with online platform/e-commerce contracting is advantageous.
- Practical knowledge of GDPR/data protection in a contracting context (DPAs, data transfer, security annexes).
- Tech-savvy and comfortable with CLM/e-signature/CRM, collaboration suites, contract redlining platforms, and basic data/AI tools; able to learn new systems quickly.
- Proven ability to proactively spot issues, design pragmatic remediations, and tailor advice to the audience and risk profile.
- Excellent communication skills, including crisp writing and structured, outcome-oriented negotiation.
- Motivated self-starter with sound judgement who thrives in international, cross-functional teams across multiple time zones.
- Fluency in English (written and spoken) is required; French or another European language is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications
- Working familiarity with payments/financial services/fintech.
- Comfort with online platform/e-commerce contracting.
Compensation & Benefits
- Flexibility in how you work: teams focus on impact and productivity over fixed hours. Depending on role and location, you will combine self-managed focus time with in-person connection in collaboration hubs.
- Fintech industry experience in a dynamic, evolving environment.
- Referral bonus program.
- Work From Anywhere: team members can work while traveling for up to 3 months every year.
Location
Work arrangement depends on role and location, including opportunities for in-person connection in collaboration hubs.