Legal Counsel

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

At xpate, we are building modern payment infrastructure for ambitious digital businesses. Our legal function works closely with teams across the company, helping xpate scale in a regulated, multi-jurisdictional environment.

We are looking for a Legal Counsel who combines strong legal judgment with a practical, operational mindset. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys not only reviewing contracts and supporting regulatory matters, but also improving legal processes, data governance, and automation.

Your role at xpate:

Legal support

You will support the legal function across a broad range of commercial, operational, regulatory, and data protection matters, including:

Maintaining data protection matters together with the DPO, including privacy engineering and privacy-by-design initiatives.

Reviewing and advising on NDAs, service agreements, vendor documentation, marketing materials, and other commercial or operational legal documents.

Supporting the collection, analysis, and structuring of legal information for internal decision-making.

Assisting payment scheme, compliance, risk, product, and operations teams with ad hoc legal input.

Providing practical legal guidance in a fast-moving fintech environment.

Legal operations

You will also play an important role in building a scalable and well-organized legal function, including:

Maintaining the Legal Single Source of Truth for multi-jurisdictional licenses, registrations, legal requirements, and related documentation.

Supporting finance, risk, compliance, and operational teams with the collection and preparation of legal data.

Overseeing the Contract Lifecycle Management system, including the vendors and outsourcing register.

Maintaining and improving legal function automation together with the IT team.

Coordinating interdepartmental communication to ensure legal data is collected, updated, and accessible.

Helping improve legal workflows, templates, registers, and internal processes.

We’re ready to meet you, if…

Legal education and relevant experience in fintech, payments, data protection, or regulatory legal work.

Strong understanding of contracts, data protection, and legal operations.

Experience with NDAs, service agreements, vendor contracts, outsourcing arrangements, and internal legal registers.

Interest in legal technology, automation, structured legal data, and scalable legal processes.

Ability to work with multiple departments and translate legal requirements into clear, practical guidance.

Strong attention to detail and ownership of documentation quality.

Structured thinking and ability to maintain reliable legal data across jurisdictions.

Ability to operate in a dynamic environment where priorities can change quickly.

Nice to have:

Experience in fintech, payments, banking, EMI/PI, SaaS, or another regulated environment.

Knowledge of GDPR, privacy engineering, outsourcing requirements, or payment scheme rules.

Understanding of multi-jurisdictional licensing or regulatory data management.

What working at xpate looks like:

A dynamic work environment with real ownership, practical challenges, and continuous learning opportunities.

The opportunity to work on real fintech infrastructure in a regulated international environment.

Flexible working hours and a hybrid working model.

Private health insurance.

Paid time off and additional company benefits.

Close collaboration with legal, compliance, risk, product, operations, finance, and IT teams.

A chance to contribute to a modern legal function supported by automation, structured data, and scalable workflows.

A collaborative team culture where initiative, curiosity, and accountability are valued.

At xpate , we value people who take ownership, improve systems, and make complex things clear. If you enjoy combining legal expertise with operational excellence and technology-driven improvements, this role is for you.

About us

xpate’s story

xpate is an all-in-one money management platform built for businesses, fintechs, and regulated industries. Born in Riga and now spreading around the globe, xpate helps digital businesses pay, get paid, and keep money flowing seamlessly and securely across borders, industries, and technologies.