Senior Legal Counsel
Job description
Senior Legal Counsel at Paddle, a Merchant of Record for digital product companies. The role is a senior member of the legal and compliance team, reporting to the Director of Legal, providing broad legal advice with a core regulatory element, based in the UK with global scope.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · UK
What you'll do
- Support the Director of Legal in their duties and advise and partner with every team across the business on a wide range of matters
- Work as part of a small team of lawyers on corporate and governance matters, administration of Paddle's international branches and subsidiaries, negotiating commercial agreements, regulatory research and advising product and support teams
- May supervise in-house trainee lawyers seeking their SRA qualification
- Assist in the negotiation of strategic commercial contracts, including key supplier and customer agreements
- Assist with the negotiation of strategic corporate contracts, including financing agreements
- Lead on the identification and analysis of evolving rules and consumer regulations relevant to Paddle's global MoR business model
- Collaborate with the compliance function to develop and implement risk and compliance policies and procedures relevant to Paddle's operations and the MoR business model
- Draft, negotiate, and advise on data protection agreements, terms of service, privacy policies, and other privacy- and data-related contracts and disclosures, collaborating closely with the compliance function
What we're looking for
- Minimum of 8+ years of legal experience, with at least 3 years in-house at a regulated high-growth tech scale-up preferably in payments, FinTech, SaaS or related sectors
- UK-qualified solicitor (preferably) or qualified in another common law or European jurisdiction
- Enjoy leading and working with junior team members, helping them to grow and realise their potential
- Smart, curious, keen to learn and proven ability to quickly get across new and complex legal concepts
- Used to working from first principles, applying common sense, and excited about answering questions you have never dealt with before
- Excellent and persuasive communicator used to partnering with a range of stakeholders across the business and externally
- Skilled at tailoring legal advice to the recipient, whether senior management or a junior contributor
- Commercially-minded and able to deliver creative, helpful and practical solutions to a rapidly growing business, often operating under pressure and in an area characterized by ambiguity
Your team
Legal and compliance team
A small team of lawyers, well-respected and integrated into Paddle's business, reporting to the Director of Legal.
Benefits
- Attractive salaries
- Stock options
- Unlimited holidays
- Enhanced parental leave
- Retirement plans
- Private healthcare
- Well-being initiatives
- Annual learning fund
- Regular internal and external training
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About Paddle
Merchant of Record for digital product companies
Paddle offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, Paddle is a Merchant of Record for its customers, taking away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation.
Key facts
- Payments / FinTech
- Backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North
- Serves over 10,000 software sellers in 245 territories globally
- Digital-first company with hubs in Europe, Austin TX (USA), Toronto (Canada) and Singapore
What they value
- Paddle Together - "None of us, is as smart as all of us"
- Paddle Simply - "Simple can be harder than complex: you have to get your thinking clean to make it simple"
- Paddle for others - "We can realise our wildest dreams, so long as we help enough other people to realise theirs"