Senior Commercial Counsel I

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the drafting, negotiation, and execution of complex commercial agreements with enterprise customers, financial institutions, fintechs, marketplaces, and strategic partners globally.
• Own the company’s most strategic transactions end-to-end with minimal supervision.
• Support the launch and scaling of new payment, card, treasury, and digital asset products, including stablecoin-enabled solutions.
• Develop scalable legal infrastructure — templates, negotiation playbooks, contracting standards, and self-service resources.
• Advise on vendor, technology, SaaS, data, and infrastructure agreements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with compliance, regulatory, privacy, finance, and product teams.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled legal workflows, contract automation, and knowledge management tools.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience as a qualified lawyer in-house, at a top law firm, or in a government agency.
• Deep expertise in commercial contracts and building scalable legal infrastructure, ideally at high-growth companies.
• Experience in payments, fintech, banking, digital assets, treasury, card, or other regulated financial services strongly preferred.
• Highly collaborative, solutions-oriented, and biased toward action and impact.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to translate complex legal concepts into practical business advice.
• Strong proponent and adopter of technology and AI; humble, low-ego, and committed to continuous improvement.

How we measure success

• Commercial Impact: Serves as lead counsel on complex transactions, accelerates revenue generation, and consistently proposes practical solutions rather than simply identifying issues.
• Speed: Is known for responsiveness and execution. Drives negotiations forward, continuously improving turnaround times through better processes, templates, and AI-enabled tools.
• Clarity: Translates complex legal and regulatory issues into concise, actionable guidance, and creates scalable self-service resources that empower teams to move faster.
• Trust: Quickly becomes a trusted advisor to commercial, finance, compliance, treasury, and executive stakeholders through sound judgment, pragmatism, and deep product knowledge.
• Raises the Bar: Improves the quality and scalability of legal support by building durable templates, playbooks, and frameworks — and consistently leaves every process better than they found it.