Senior Legal Counsel

The role

You will be a senior member of the legal and compliance team reporting to the Director of Legal. You will provide legal advice across various areas including corporate, governance, commercial contracts, and regulatory matters.

What you will do

• Support the Director of Legal in their duties
• Advise and partner with teams across the business
• Work on corporate and governance matters
• Administer international branches and subsidiaries
• Negotiate commercial agreements
• Conduct regulatory research
• Advise product and support teams
• Supervise in-house trainee lawyers seeking SRA qualification
• Negotiate strategic commercial and corporate contracts
• Lead identification and analysis of evolving rules and consumer regulations

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 8+ years of legal experience
• At least 3 years in-house at a regulated high-growth tech scale-up
• Excellent and persuasive communicator
• Commercially-minded

Nice to have

• Experience in payments, FinTech, SaaS or related sectors
• UK-qualified solicitor

Benefits

• Attractive salaries
• Stock options
• Unlimited holidays
• Enhanced parental leave
• Retirement plans
• Private healthcare
• Well-being initiatives
• Annual learning fund
• Regular internal and external training

About the company

Paddle offers digital product companies a different approach to payment infrastructure as a Merchant of Record. They serve over 10,000 software sellers in 245 territories globally.