Senior Legal Counsel

Paddle; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Paddle, a leading fintech, seeks a Senior Legal Counsel to join the global legal and compliance team. Based in the UK but with a global remit, you will provide strategic legal guidance across regulatory, governance and commercial matters.

You will draft and negotiate key agreements, supervise legal advisory work, and lead on data protection, privacy policies, and MoR compliance to support Paddle’s growth.

Qualifications

• Senior-level legal professional with broad regulatory expertise.
• Experience negotiating commercial agreements.
• Knowledge of regulatory research for MoR business model.
• Ability to draft privacy-related agreements and policies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of lawyers across corporate, governance, and regulatory work.
• Negotiate strategic supplier and customer contracts.
• Advise on data protection agreements, privacy policies, and terms of service.
• Develop risk and compliance policies for Paddle’s global MoR model.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Contract negotiation

Data protection

Governance

Education

SRA qualification

Job description

What do we do? Paddle offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better. We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 10,000 software sellers in 245 territories globally.

The role

As Senior Legal Counsel, you will be a senior member of the Paddle legal and compliance team, reporting directly to Paddle’s Director of Legal. The Paddle legal team is well-respected and integrated into Paddle’s business. As a result, this role will require you to collaborate with other teams across the business, and advise cross-functionally, always with a view to empowering the business to achieve its goals while taking a long-term strategic view. The role itself will be broad and varied, with a core regulatory element. You will be delivering first-rate legal advice in a fast-paced dynamic environment, identifying risk and balancing common sense with your legal expertise. You will be an excellent generalist, comfortable operating in areas of ambiguity. As Senior Legal Counsel, you will consider the longer-term impacts whilst also being able to react quickly to deliver level-headed, creative and context-appropriate solutions to ensure the best possible customer experience in the ever changing tech space. The role will be based in the UK but will be global in scope.

What you’ll do

• Leadership remit: As a senior member of the team, you will work as part of a small team of lawyers in a wide range of legal work, including corporate and governance matters, administration of Paddle’s international branches and subsidiaries, negotiating commercial agreements, regulatory research and advising our product and support teams. Your duties may include supervising in-house trainee lawyers seeking their SRA qualification.
• Strategic commercial work: You will assist in the negotiation of strategic commercial contracts, including key supplier and customer agreements.
• Strategic corporate work: You will assist with the negotiation of strategic corporate contracts, including financing agreements.
• Regulatory advice (incl data protection): You will lead on the identification and analysis of evolving rules and consumer regulations relevant to Paddle’s global MoR business model. You will collaborate with the compliance function to develop and implement risk and compliance policies and procedures relevant to Paddle’s operations and the MoR business model. You will draft, negotiate, and advise on data protection agreements, terms of service, privacy policies, and other privacy-