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Senior Counsel, Vendor
Location
United States
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$195K - $280K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Counsel, Vendor
Affirm
• 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. Manage a high volume of deals with speed and sound judgment. • Design, implement, and continuously improve playbooks, contract templates, negotiation guides, and other projects that enable the team to operate efficiently at scale. Identify friction points and build solutions that reduce cycle time without sacrificing quality. • 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, increasing team capacity and reducing bottlenecks.
Job 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.
- A 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 into plain language.
- Collaborative working style, with experience guiding cross-functional teams toward practical, win-win outcomes.
- Intellectual curiosity and creative problem-solving instincts: you learn new products and business models quickly and enjoy finding solutions to novel challenges.
- Proactive, self-starter mentality with a bias for action.
- Excellent judgment, and ability to make timely, pragmatic, and business-focused decisions in ambiguous situations with imperfect information.
- Humility, integrity and a sense of humor; you take your work seriously, but not yourself.
Benefits
- Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
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