Vendor Transactions Counsel — Remote

Affirm, Inc.; Baltimore (MD); Remote; USD 164,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% health coverage for you and your

Tech stipend and health spending

Flexible time off and holidays

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affim is seeking a practical, proactive transactional attorney to join the Vendor Legal team. You will negotiate a wide range of vendor engagements, draft contracts, and help build scalable legal processes in a remote-first environment across the U.S.

You will partner with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, Product, and Privacy to balance risk with business velocity, while improving playbooks and templates to enable rapid, quality deals.

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 tech company or 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 knowledge of data protection and privacy regimes (CCPA, GDPR, APPs, PIPEDA, GLBA)
• Ability to manage high deal volume while maintaining quality and consistency
• Track record of building or improving legal processes, playbooks, templates, or other tools
• Clear, concise communication; collaborative cross-functional partnering
• Curiosity, problem-solving, and bias for action
• Humility and a sense of humor in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Lead negotiation, drafting, and execution of vendor agreements across marketing tech, tech services, cloud services, SaaS, data platforms, contractors, leases, and payments.
• Design and improve playbooks, templates, and negotiation guides to scale operations.
• Collaborate with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, Product, Finance, and Privacy to provide practical guidance.
• Act as a proactive business partner to stakeholders across the organization.
• Develop training and resources to empower partners to self-serve on routine legal matters.

Skills

Contract negotiation

Drafting

Privacy regs

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Business partnership

Clear communication

Proactive problem solving

Judgment under ambiguity

Humility and integrity

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

Affim is seeking a practical, proactive transactional attorney to join the Vendor Legal team. You will negotiate a wide range of vendor engagements, draft contracts, and help build scalable legal processes in a remote-first environment across the U.S.

You will partner with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, Product, and Privacy to balance risk with business velocity, while improving playbooks and templates to enable rapid, quality deals.