Remote Vendor Contracts Counsel

Affirm, Inc.; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 164,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer medical coverage for you

Monthly stipends for tech setup and健康

Flexible time off and holiday calendar

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Affim seeks a practical, proactive transactional attorney to join our Vendor Legal team. You will negotiate a wide range of vendor agreements, design playbooks, and partner with procurement, finance, engineering, and product to balance risk with business velocity in a high-growth environment.

You will develop scalable processes, mentor stakeholders, and help rebuild the Vendor Legal function from the ground up, while maintaining practical, business-focused decisions in complex deals.

Qualifications

• JD and active membership with at least one U.S. state bar.
• 5+ years of relevant transactional experience in-house at a technology company or in a technology practice group at a top law firm.
• Exceptional drafting skills.
• Experience in marketing tech, adtech, fintech, payments, or financial services.
• Experience supporting global or multi-jurisdictional transactions (Canada, US, UK/EU, Australia).
• Strong knowledge of data protection and privacy regimes such as CCPA, GDPR, APPs, PIPEDA, and GLBA.
• Proven ability to manage high deal volume while maintaining quality, consistency, and attention to detail.
• A track record of building or improving legal processes, playbooks, templates, or other operational tools in a high-growth environment.
• Clear, concise communication skills, with the ability to distill complex legal and commercial issues into plain language.
• Collaborative working style, with experience guiding cross-functional teams toward practical, win‑win outcomes.
• Intellectual curiosity and creative problem‑solving instincts: you learn new products and business models quickly and enjoy finding solutions to novel challenges.
• Proactive, self‑starter mentality with a bias for action.
• Excellent judgment, and ability to make timely, pragmatic, and business‑focused decisions in ambiguous situations with imperfect information.
• Humility, integrity and a sense of humor; you take your work seriously, but not yourself.

Responsibilities

• Lead negotiation, drafting, and execution of vendor agreements (marketing tech, technology services, cloud, SaaS, data platform, contractor, creative, lease, payment processing).
• Design, implement, and improve playbooks, contract templates, and negotiation guides for scalable operations.
• Work with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, Product, Finance, and Security to provide practical guidance.
• Serve as a proactive business partner to stakeholders across the organization.
• Develop and deliver training and resources to empower partners to self-serve on routine commercial matters.

Skills

Bar admission and JD

Exceptional drafting

Contract negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Privacy/data protection knowledge

High-volume deal management

Process design and playbooks

Business partner mindset

Clear communication

Problem solving in legal context

Education

JD and active US state bar

Job description

Affim seeks a practical, proactive transactional attorney to join our Vendor Legal team. You will negotiate a wide range of vendor agreements, design playbooks, and partner with procurement, finance, engineering, and product to balance risk with business velocity in a high-growth environment.

You will develop scalable processes, mentor stakeholders, and help rebuild the Vendor Legal function from the ground up, while maintaining practical, business-focused decisions in complex deals.