Senior Counsel (Vendor)

Join Affirm, a leading fintech company, as a Senior Counsel (Vendor) in our Legal, Compliance, and Public Affairs team. In this role, you will lead and grow our Vendor Legal team, manage a high volume of vendor agreements, and serve as a strategic business partner to senior managers across the organization. You will have the opportunity to rebuild the Vendor Legal team from the ground up and make a significant impact on our mission to deliver honest financial products.

• Lead and grow the Vendor Legal team, managing a team, setting priorities, driving operational execution, and serving as a key stakeholder partner across the organization.
• 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 other projects that enable the team to operate efficiently at scale.
• 8+ years of relevant transactional experience in-house at a technology company or in a technology practice group at a top law firm
• Experience in fintech, payments, or financial services
• A track record of building or improving legal processes, playbooks, templates, or other operational tools in a high-growth environment
• 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
• Excellent judgment, and ability to make timely, pragmatic, and business-focused decisions in ambiguous situations with imperfect information
• Proactive, self-starter mentality with a bias for action
• Experience supporting global or multi-jurisdictional transactions (e.g., Canada, US, UK/EU, Australia)
• Clear, concise communication skills, with the ability to distill complex legal and commercial issues into plain language
• 2+ years of direct people management experience, including hiring, developing, and performance-managing attorneys or legal professionals
• Exceptional drafting skills
• Proven ability to manage high deal volume while maintaining quality, consistency, and attention to detail
• Strong working knowledge of data protection and privacy regimes such as CCPA, GDPR, APPs, PIPEDA, and GLBA
• JD and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar
• Humility, integrity and a sense of humor; you take your work seriously, but not yourself