Fintech Corporate Counsel - Payments & Privacy

Fullsteam Personnel, LLC; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Fullsteam seeks a Corporate Counsel to support a rapidly growing fintech software and payments business. You will partner with sales, product, engineering, information security, and compliance to identify legal risks and ensure regulatory compliance.

This role focuses on commercial agreements, privacy, and payments operations, offering an opportunity to advise on innovative product initiatives while shaping scalable legal processes.

Qualifications

• JD from an accredited law school.
• Active license and good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
• 3–5 years of legal experience in law firm or in-house.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements.
• Experience advising on payments, software, technology, or commercial transactions.
• Knowledge of contract law and risk allocation (indemnification, liability, IP, data security).
• Experience working with business stakeholders and providing practical legal advice.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a wide variety of commercial agreements (software licensing, payment processing, partnership, vendor, reseller, and customer).
• Advise on contractual risk including indemnification, limitation of liability, warranties, IP, data security, and privacy obligations.
• Support payment processing operations and provide legal guidance on card network rules, merchant acquiring, PayFac programs, PCI DSS.
• Partner with product, engineering, and security teams on legal/regulatory considerations for new products and services.
• Assist with privacy and data protection compliance efforts (CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, etc.).
• Develop and maintain contract templates, playbooks, and processes for efficiency.
• Provide day-to-day legal advice to internal stakeholders on commercial, operational, and strategic matters.
• Support governance, acquisitions, vendor management, regulatory examinations, and special projects.
• Monitor regulatory developments in software, fintech, and payments and advise on impacts.

Skills

Contract negotiation

Complex contracts

Templates & playbooks

Card network rules

PCI DSS

PayFac/merchant acquiring

AML/KYC compliance

Attention to detail

CIPP preferred

Education

Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Active state bar license

Job description

Fullsteam seeks a Corporate Counsel to support a rapidly growing fintech software and payments business. You will partner with sales, product, engineering, information security, and compliance to identify legal risks and ensure regulatory compliance.

This role focuses on commercial agreements, privacy, and payments operations, offering an opportunity to advise on innovative product initiatives while shaping scalable legal processes.