Senior Counsel - Vendor Agreements Leader (Remote)

Affirm; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 195,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Time off

ESPP

Job summary

Affirm seeks a practical, proactive transactional attorney to lead and grow our Vendor Legal team. Reporting to the Senior Director, you will manage a team, set priorities, drive execution, and maintain your own deal portfolio, ensuring quality, speed, and sound judgment.

You will balance risk with business velocity in a high-growth, tech-driven environment. You will build and motivate a team, develop talent, and create scalable systems and processes.

Qualifications

• JD and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
• 8+ years of relevant transactional experience in-house at a technology company or in a technology practice group at a top law firm.
• 2+ years of direct people management experience, including hiring, developing, and performance-managing attorneys or legal professionals.
• Exceptional drafting skills.
• Experience in fintech, payments, or financial services.
• Experience supporting global or multi-jurisdictional transactions (e.g., Canada, US, UK/EU, Australia).
• Strong working knowledge of data protection and privacy regimes such as CCPA, GDPR, APPs, PIPEDA, and GLBA.

Responsibilities

• Lead negotiation, drafting, and execution of a wide range of vendor agreements across technology services, cloud services, SaaS, data platforms, contractor, marketing/creative, lease, and payment processing engagements.
• Design, implement, and improve playbooks, templates, and negotiation guides to scale operations while maintaining quality.
• Collaborate with procurement, engineering, product, finance, information security, privacy, and other teams to provide practical guidance.
• Serve as a proactive business partner to senior managers across the organization.
• Develop and deliver training/resources to empower business partners to self-serve on vendor legal matters.

Skills

Transactional attorney experience

Team leadership

Drafting skills

Regulatory compliance

FinTech/payments knowledge

Privacy/data protection knowledge

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

Affirm seeks a practical, proactive transactional attorney to lead and grow our Vendor Legal team. Reporting to the Senior Director, you will manage a team, set priorities, drive execution, and maintain your own deal portfolio, ensuring quality, speed, and sound judgment.

You will balance risk with business velocity in a high-growth, tech-driven environment. You will build and motivate a team, develop talent, and create scalable systems and processes.