Counsel (Vendor)

Join Affirm's Legal, Compliance, and Public Affairs team as a Counsel (Vendor). In this role, you will negotiate a range of vendor transactions, manage a busy deal pipeline, and help design and improve processes that increase efficiency and deal velocity. You will work closely with various cross-functional teams and serve as a proactive, strategic business partner. The position offers a remote-first work environment, generous time off, health benefits, and opportunities for learning and development.

• Negotiate, draft, and execute a wide range of vendor agreements, including technology services, cloud services, SaaS, data platform, contractor, marketing/creative, lease, and payment processing engagements.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve playbooks, contract templates, negotiation guides, and workflows 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.
• You are pragmatic, solutions-oriented, and comfortable balancing risk with business velocity in a high-growth, technology-driven environment
• 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
• Humility, integrity and a sense of humor; you take your work seriously, but not yourself
• JD and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar
• Experience in fintech, payments, or financial services
• Collaborative working style, with experience guiding cross-functional teams toward practical, win-win outcomes
• A track record of building or improving legal processes, playbooks, templates, or other operational tools in a high-growth environment
• Exceptional drafting skills
• Clear, concise communication skills, with the ability to distill complex legal and commercial issues into plain language
• Experience supporting global or multi-jurisdictional transactions (e.g., Canada, US, UK/EU, Australia)
• 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
• 5+ years of relevant transactional experience in-house at a technology company or in a technology practice group at a top law firm
• Excellent judgment, and ability to make timely, pragmatic, and business-focused decisions in ambiguous situations with imperfect information