Fintech Legal Counsel - Privacy, Compliance & Ops

Xpate; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Paid time off

Additional company benefits

Job summary

XPATE is building modern payment infrastructure and seeks a Legal Counsel with strong legal judgment and an operational mindset. You will support commercial, regulatory, and data protection matters while driving improvements in data governance and automation.

In a fast-moving fintech environment, you will help design scalable processes, maintain the legal data landscape, and collaborate with finance, risk, product, and operations to ensure compliant, efficient workflows.

Qualifications

• Legal education and fintech/regulatory experience.
• Strong contracts, data protection, and legal operations knowledge.
• Experience with NDAs, service agreements, vendor contracts, outsourcing.
• Interest in legal technology, automation, and structured data.
• Ability to translate legal requirements across departments.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice on commercial, operational, regulatory, and data protection matters.
• Maintain data protection matters with the DPO and privacy-by-design initiatives.
• Review NDAs, service agreements, vendor documentation, and marketing materials.
• Support collection and analysis of legal data for decision-making.
• Improve legal workflows, templates, registers, and processes.
• Oversee Contract Lifecycle Management system and vendors.

Skills

Contracts

Data protection

Legal operations

NDAs

Service agreements

Vendor contracts

Outsourcing

Legal tech

Automation

Cross-functional

Job description

XPATE is building modern payment infrastructure and seeks a Legal Counsel with strong legal judgment and an operational mindset. You will support commercial, regulatory, and data protection matters while driving improvements in data governance and automation.

In a fast-moving fintech environment, you will help design scalable processes, maintain the legal data landscape, and collaborate with finance, risk, product, and operations to ensure compliant, efficient workflows.