Senior Vendor Legal Counsel

Affirm, Inc.; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 164,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage with dependents

Stipends for tech setup

Flexible time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affim is seeking a practical, proactive transactional attorney to join our Vendor Legal team. You will lead negotiations for vendor agreements across marketing tech, cloud services, SaaS, data platforms, and more, and build scalable processes and playbooks to accelerate deals.

You will partner with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, and product teams to balance risk with business velocity in a fast-growing tech environment.

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 vendor agreements across multiple engagements.
• Design, implement, and improve playbooks, templates, and negotiation guides to scale operations.
• Collaborate with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, and other teams to provide practical guidance.
• Serve as a proactive, strategic business partner to stakeholders across the organization.
• Develop and deliver training/resources to empower business partners to self-serve on routine commercial legal matters.

Skills

Negotiation

Drafting

Cross-functional collaboration

Privacy knowledge

Transactional experience

Pragmatic risk assessment

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Tools

Job description

Affim is seeking a practical, proactive transactional attorney to join our Vendor Legal team. You will lead negotiations for vendor agreements across marketing tech, cloud services, SaaS, data platforms, and more, and build scalable processes and playbooks to accelerate deals.

You will partner with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, and product teams to balance risk with business velocity in a fast-growing tech environment.