Senior Counsel, Vendor
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AffirmFinancial Technology
Remote USFull-TimeSenior
SalaryUSA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $220,000 - $280,000; USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $195,000 - $255,000
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- People ManagementSaaS
Requirements
- JD and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
- 8+ years of relevant transactional experience in-house at a technology company or in a technology practice group at a top law firm.
- 2+ years of direct people management experience, including hiring, developing, and performance-managing attorneys or legal professionals.
- Exceptional drafting skills.
- Experience in fintech, payments, or financial services.
- Experience supporting global or multi-jurisdictional transactions (e.g., Canada, US, UK/EU, Australia).
- Strong working knowledge of data protection and privacy regimes such as CCPA, GDPR, APPs, PIPEDA, and GLBA.
- Proven ability to manage high deal volume while maintaining quality, consistency, and attention to detail.
- Track record of building or improving legal processes, playbooks, templates, or other operational tools in a high-growth environment.
- Clear, concise communication skills with the ability to distill complex legal and commercial issues.
Responsibilities
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance team culture grounded in accountability, continuous improvement, and a bias for action.
- Lead negotiation, drafting, and execution of a wide range of vendor agreements, including technology services, cloud services, SaaS, data platform, contractor, marketing/creative, lease, and payment processing engagements.
- Design, implement, and continuously improve playbooks, contract templates, negotiation guides, and other projects that enable the team to operate efficiently at scale.
- Work closely with procurement, financial partnerships, engineering, product, finance, information security, privacy, and other teams to provide clear, practical guidance.
- Serve as a proactive, strategic business partner to senior managers across the organization.
- Develop and deliver training and resources that empower business partners to self-serve on routine vendor legal matters.
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