Senior Legal Counsel (Part-Time)

Runa Network Limited; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 150,000; Part time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to lead the legal function in a part-time capacity. This role offers a unique chance to shape the legal landscape of a pioneering payment infrastructure company. You will support commercial discussions, product launches, and corporate matters while ensuring compliance in a rapidly evolving industry. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for legal frameworks and a desire to drive growth while managing risks, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a collaborative team and make a significant impact in the world of digital payments.

Qualifications

• Licensed attorney with 4+ years of post-qualification experience in the US.
• Experience in payments or financially regulated business is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Crafting and negotiating commercial agreements.
• Researching legal and compliance aspects in the payments industry.
• Legal sign-off on product releases and corporate law activities.

Skills

Commercial Law

Corporate Law

Employment Law

Data Privacy

Legal Research

Negotiation

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

Senior Legal Counsel(Part-Time)

Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail that enables the seamless, global money movement at scale. Legacy banking and payment infrastructure struggles to support the demands of today's low-volume, high-velocity payouts, leading to inefficiencies in global payouts. Businesses worldwide send over $20 trillion annually in rewards, remittances, and disbursements often incurring costs of up to 50% per transaction and subjecting recipients to lengthy delays. Runa transforms this landscape by providing a new digital payments infrastructure that empowers businesses to send digital money instantly and cost-free to anyone, anywhere. The Runa API empowers thousands of businesses to make payments to 5 billion+ consumers in 190+ countries instantly to cards, wallets, bank accounts and gift cards. Leading companies such as Sodexo, TopCashback, Perkbox, Sweatcoin, Coinbase, and Globetopper rely on Runa to facilitate instant, flexible global payouts to tens of millions of consumers.

About the role:

As the first US legal hire in the company, you’ll have an amazing opportunity to support the development of the legal function and shape the future of the business! We’re looking for a strategic, passionate, and practical attorney to support commercial discussions, product launches, corporate matters, and employment issues on a part-time basis. This role will form one half of a job share with our UK based Senior Legal Counsel.

While this is a generalist role, you should have strong experience with commercial law. This role will be key in supporting Runa’s strategic vision through a legal and compliance lens.

Below are some examples of things you’ll get to own:

• Commercial law, crafting and negotiating all commercial agreements.

• Researching industry-specific legal and/or compliance aspects as they arise, particularly in the payments and financially regulated industries.

• Legal sign-off on product releases including data privacy checks, in partnership with Security, Product, and Finance.

• Corporate law activities such as financing transactions and new entity setups.

• Employment law, options program management.

• Company secretary and governance activities.

What Excites You

• Taking part ownership of the legal function in the company. We don’t expect you to know everything, but you’re keen to broaden your exposure, roll your sleeves up, and figure it out.

• Finding that balance between driving commercial hyper-scale growth and ensuring the company is protected from the most critical and likely risks.

• Setting up usable legal frameworks, processes, and tooling that will scale with the company.

• Comfortable managing external legal partners, ensuring we receive high-quality and value-added services.

• Growth and company mindset. From fundraising to managing the employee options plan or getting business insurance sorted, no task is too big or small.

What Excites Us

• Licensed attorney with equivalent of 4+ years of post-qualification experience (PQE) in the US legal market, ideally in a payments or financially regulated business.

• A trusted legal partner who will dig in to understand the business model and product, and help us make the best decisions fit for our size company.

• Strong communicator who can translate legal speak into plain and practical language.

• Highly collaborative mindset - we’re all working towards the same goal after all.

• Creative problem solver who addresses issues with urgency and thoughtfulness.

• Experience in payments and/or financially regulated industries is advantageous.

Senior Legal Counsel (Part-Time)