Senior Legal Counsel

The role

You will work across commercial contracts, payments regulation, AML, corporate governance, and fundraising. You will report to the Head of Tax & Legal and help build the infrastructure for a global trade engine.

What you will do

• Draft and negotiate commercial agreements including MSAs, merchant contracts, and partnership deals
• Build contract templates and playbooks
• Support enterprise deals and legal diligence
• Advise on regulatory posture across EMI, PSD2, and equivalent frameworks
• Ensure compliance with Visa and Mastercard scheme rules
• Work with external counsel in new jurisdictions
• Build and maintain AML policy and compliance programmes
• Support KYC/KYB processes and regulatory obligations
• Support fundraising including term sheets and investment documents
• Research legal and regulatory requirements for new market entry

Required qualifications

• In-house legal at a payments company or fintech
• Or private practice with fintech regulatory focus
• Exposure to payments regulation, commercial contracts, or AML
• Ability to draft and negotiate
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Ability to own work without waiting for instructions
• Bias for action

Nice to have

• experience with EMI/PSD2 frameworks
• exposure to fundraising or corporate governance

Benefits

• Equity and salary
• Direct access to the CEO and founding team

About the company

Outpost is building the AI global trade engine. They operate as Merchant of Record or Tax of Record across 58+ tax jurisdictions.