Associate Commercial Legal Counsel

Feedzai; Lisbon (ME); On-site; USD 58,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

Feedzai is seeking an experienced Legal Advisor to support management and business units on contracts and regulatory matters. The role involves negotiating critical agreements, addressing complex legal issues, and promoting ethics and compliance across the organization.

Your day-to-day includes managing NDAs to termination, guiding negotiations, and collaborating with suppliers, customers, and external law firms to protect Feedzai’s interests.

Qualifications

• Law degree required and active licensure.
• 2–4 years practicing law in a professional setting.
• Experience in law firms, with secondment preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Contract, Commercial and IT law; English fluency required.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate software contracts with major customers in banking and payments.
• Manage full contract lifecycle from NDAs to termination.
• Advise on complex legal and regulatory matters affecting the business.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to resolve issues.

Skills

Contract Law

Commercial Law

IT Law

English fluency

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Ethics and integrity

Education

Law degree

2-4 years experience

Job description

At Feedzai, we're building a world of safer money. A world where financial institutions move faster than criminals. Where the payments that fund real lives through salaries, savings, and businesses are protected in real time. We use trusted AI to detect and prevent financial crime, fraud, and money laundering at scale: the world's top banks, payment networks, and acquirers trust our technology to safeguard more than one billion consumers and $9 trillion in payment volume every year.

Feedzai is a Series D company and has raised $282M to date. With a valuation of $2 billion, our technology protects 1 billion consumers and 90 billion transactions each year.

The Legal Teams' primary objective is to allow Feedzai to achieve new heights, and attain its ambitious objectives while ensuring adherence to compliance practices, rules, laws and regulations. In addition, we facilitate and enable the business by supporting Feedzaians across all teams. Finally, we partner with all business areas by providing legal instruments for an enhanced employee experience, company health, safety, and prosperity in legal parameters. We're always here to lend support and empower each other to keep reaching higher. Join Us!

You:

As one of Feedzai’s Legal Advisors, you’ll provide legal support to the company's management and business areas on legal and regulatory matters relating to contracts, helping the company to achieve long-term success and avoid legal and reputational risks. You’ll be directly involved in complex business transactions, negotiating critical contracts. In addition, you’ll drive and foster a culture of ethics and compliance throughout the organization.

Your Day to Day:

• Negotiate software contracts with major customers in the banking and payment services area
• Manage the full contract lifecycle (from NDAs to termination)
• Advise the company in complex legal and regulatory matters relating to the company’s business
• Manage complex negotiation processes with various internal and external stakeholders

You Have & You Know-how:

• Law degree
• 2-4 years experience in practicing Law
• Previous experience in law firms, with a secondment experience - Preferred
• Solid knowledge and experience of Contract Law, Commercial Law and IT Law,
• Good communication skills to ensure information is communicated effectively (both internally and externally)
• Fluency in English - written and oral communication - Required
• A high degree of professional ethics and integrity
• Critical, creative, and strategic mindset to find the best solution in a risk-aware manner
• Ability to engage and influence both internal and external stakeholders (suppliers, business customers, external law firms, public authorities, etc.), creating relations of trust
• Ability and willingness to learn and engage with multiple topics, including those that are related to technology
• Organization and management skills to handle competing requests and priorities

Location: Lisbon

*Resumes need to be in English

Your First 30-Days at Feedzai:

You will be immersed in our brand with training, connections, and one-on-one time with your manager. You may shadow your colleagues virtually or onsite at an office depending on where you work as you are supported through your Feedzai journey. In addition, you will have access to a ton of information to give you history, context, and all the knowledge you can handle about Feedzai and the team. Finally, you will start working on projects and collaborating on work currently being done. We can't wait to have you join the team!

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