Senior Counsel, Vendor Transactions (Remote‑First)

Affirm, Inc.; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 164,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Monthly tech stipends

Flexible time off and holidays

ESPP - employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affim is seeking a practical, proactive transactional attorney to join the Vendor Legal team. You will negotiate and draft diverse vendor agreements, shape playbooks, and partner with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, and product teams to balance risk with business velocity in a fast-growing tech environment.

You will help rebuild the Vendor Legal function, design scalable processes, and empower partners to self-serve on routine matters, while maintaining high standards of accuracy and

Qualifications

• JD and active membership in good standing 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 (e.g., Canada, US, UK/EU, Australia).
• Strong working 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 a wide range of vendor agreements, including marketing tech, technology services, cloud services, SaaS, data platform, contractor, creative, lease, and payment processing engagements. Manage a high volume of deals with speed and sound judgment
• Design, implement, and continuously improve playbooks, contract templates, negotiation guides, and other projects that enable the team to operate efficiently at scale. Identify friction points and build solutions that reduce cycle time without sacrificing quality
• Work closely with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, Product, Finance, Information Security, Privacy, and other teams to provide clear, practical guidance
• Serve as a proactive, strategic business partner to stakeholders across the organization
• Develop and deliver training and resources that empower business partners to self-serve on routine commercial legal matters, increasing team capacity and reducing bottlenecks

Skills

Negotiation

Drafting

Cross-functional collaboration

Privacy and data protection

Tech/fintech experience

US bar admission

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

Affim is seeking a practical, proactive transactional attorney to join the Vendor Legal team. You will negotiate and draft diverse vendor agreements, shape playbooks, and partner with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, and product teams to balance risk with business velocity in a fast-growing tech environment.

You will help rebuild the Vendor Legal function, design scalable processes, and empower partners to self-serve on routine matters, while maintaining high standards of accuracy and