Vendor Legal Counsel – Scale, Playbooks, Negotiations

Affirm, Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Generous time off

Health benefits

Parental leave

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a transactional attorney to join the Vendor Legal team. You will lead negotiations and drafting across a wide range of vendor engagements, including marketing tech, cloud services, SaaS, data platforms, and payments, balancing risk with business velocity.

You will build and improve playbooks, templates, and negotiation guides, and partner with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, Product, and Privacy teams to provide pragmatic legal support at scale.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of optimizing legal processes, playbooks, templates, or other tools in a fast-growing environment.
• Experience in marketing tech, adtech, fintech, payments, or financial services.
• Strong drafting skills and clear, concise legal writing.

Responsibilities

• Lead negotiation, drafting, and execution of a wide range of vendor agreements (marketing tech, tech services, cloud, SaaS, data platforms, contractors, leases, payments).
• Manage high-volume deal flow with speed and sound judgment.
• Design, implement, and improve playbooks, templates, and negotiation guides to scale the team.
• Collaborate with Procurement, Finance, Engineering, Product, Privacy, Security, and other teams to provide practical guidance.

Skills

Negotiation

Drafting

Legal analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

J.D. degree

Bar admission (US state)

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a transactional attorney to join the Vendor Legal team. You will lead negotiations and drafting across a wide range of vendor engagements, including marketing tech, cloud services, SaaS, data platforms, and payments, balancing risk with business velocity.

You will build and improve playbooks, templates, and negotiation guides, and partner with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, Product, and Privacy teams to provide pragmatic legal support at scale.