Vendor Legal Counsel | High‑Volume Deals, Remote‑First

Affirm, Inc.; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 164,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage partial or full?

Equity rewards

Job summary

Affim is seeking a practical, proactive transactional attorney to join our Vendor Legal team. You will lead negotiations, draft and finalize a wide range of vendor agreements and build scalable processes to accelerate deal velocity.

You will partner with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, Product, and Privacy teams to deliver practical guidance while maintaining strong risk management. This remote‑first role offers broad exposure to cross‑functional collaboration and process

Qualifications

• JD and active bar 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 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

Transactional experience

Marketing tech / adtech / fintech

Cross‑functional collaboration

Clear, concise communication

Proactive, self‑starter

pragmatism in risk decisions

Education

JD and active state bar

Job description

Affim is seeking a practical, proactive transactional attorney to join our Vendor Legal team. You will lead negotiations, draft and finalize a wide range of vendor agreements and build scalable processes to accelerate deal velocity.

You will partner with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, Product, and Privacy teams to deliver practical guidance while maintaining strong risk management. This remote‑first role offers broad exposure to cross‑functional collaboration and process