Vendor Legal Counsel II — Tech Transactions (Remote)

Affirm, Inc.; Sioux Falls (SD); Remote; USD 164,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Stipends for tech setup

Generous holidays

ESP P incentive program

Job summary

Affim seeks a practical, proactive transactional attorney to join our Vendor Legal team. You will negotiate and draft a wide range of vendor agreements, including marketing tech, cloud services, SaaS, and data platform engagements, balancing risk with speed in a high-growth tech environment.

You will design playbooks, templates, and guides to scale operations, partner with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, Product, and Privacy teams, and help train business partners to self-serve

Qualifications

• JD and active U.S. state bar membership.
• 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 a wide range of vendor agreements, including 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 that enable the team to operate efficiently at scale.
• 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

Drafting skills

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Privacy/compliance knowledge

Proactive/self-starter

Education

JD + US state bar

Tools

Contract management tools

Job description

Affim seeks a practical, proactive transactional attorney to join our Vendor Legal team. You will negotiate and draft a wide range of vendor agreements, including marketing tech, cloud services, SaaS, and data platform engagements, balancing risk with speed in a high-growth tech environment.

You will design playbooks, templates, and guides to scale operations, partner with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, Product, and Privacy teams, and help train business partners to self-serve