Senior Vendor Legal Counsel (Remote-First)

Affirm, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 164,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Monthly 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 negotiate vendor agreements across marketing tech, software services, cloud, SaaS, data platforms, contractors, leases, and payments while balancing risk with business velocity in a high-growth, tech-driven environment.

You will design playbooks, templates, and processes, partnering with Procurement, Engineering, Product, Finance, and Privacy to improve efficiency and scale the function as the

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 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, guiding cross-functional teams toward practical, win‑win outcomes.
• Intellectual curiosity and creative problem‑solving instincts: you learn new products 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 across marketing tech, technology services, cloud services, SaaS, data platform, contractor, creative, lease, and payment processing engagements.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve playbooks, contract templates, negotiation guides, and other projects to operate efficiently at scale.
• Work closely with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, Product, Finance, Information Security, Privacy, and other teams to provide 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.

Skills

Drafting skills

Negotiation

Cross-functional work

Privacy knowledge

Education

JD & State Bar

Job description

Affim is seeking a practical, proactive transactional attorney to join our Vendor Legal team. You will negotiate vendor agreements across marketing tech, software services, cloud, SaaS, data platforms, contractors, leases, and payments while balancing risk with business velocity in a high-growth, tech-driven environment.

You will design playbooks, templates, and processes, partnering with Procurement, Engineering, Product, Finance, and Privacy to improve efficiency and scale the function as the