Senior Counsel (Vendor)

Role Overview

Join Affirm as Senior Counsel (Vendor) in the Legal, Compliance, and Public Affairs team. You will lead and grow the Vendor Legal team, manage a high volume of vendor agreements, and partner with senior stakeholders across the organization.

Key Missions

• Lead and grow the Vendor Legal team: manage priorities, drive operational execution, and serve as a core stakeholder partner.
• Negotiate, draft, and execute a wide range of vendor agreements, including:
  • Technology services
  • Cloud services
  • SaaS
  • Data platform
  • Contractor agreements
  • Marketing/creative
  • Leases
  • Payment processing
• Build and improve legal operations assets:
  • Playbooks, contract templates, negotiation guides, and related tools to scale team efficiency.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant transactional experience in-house (tech company) or in a technology practice at a top law firm.
• Experience in fintech, payments, or financial services.
• Proven ability to build/improve legal processes and operational tools (playbooks, templates, etc.) in a high-growth environment.
• Collaborative, cross-functional approach focused on practical, win-win outcomes.
• Strong judgment and ability to make timely, business-focused decisions in ambiguous situations.
• Proactive, self-starting mindset.
• Experience supporting global/multi-jurisdictional transactions (e.g., US, Canada, UK/EU, Australia).
• Excellent communication skills; ability to translate complex legal/commercial issues into plain language.
• 2+ years of direct people management experience (hiring, developing, performance management).
• Exceptional drafting skills and ability to manage high deal volume with consistent quality.
• Strong knowledge of data protection/privacy regimes including CCPA, GDPR, APPs, PIPEDA, and GLBA.
• JD and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.

Nice-to-haves / Attributes

• Intellectual curiosity and creative problem-solving.
• Humility, integrity, and strong sense of humor.