Description:
At A Financial Services Company, our mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. There has never been a better time than now to start building the future of fintech with us. A Financial Services Company powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, and Betterment, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. A Financial Services Company's network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. #LI-RemoteCommercial Legal enables A Financial Services Company's goals by drafting and negotiating all types of commercial agreements, including: sell-side (Revenue/GTM), buy-side (Procurement), and financial data access (FA). We partner with all business levels to craft company-wide commercial strategies regarding legacy and new A Financial Services Company products, accelerating revenue while minimizing legal debt.
Responsibilities:
- Draft, negotiate, and close commercial agreements across A Financial Services Company, including: Revenue/GTM agreements (e.g., MSAs, Partnership Agreements, Product Addenda, Amendments, Order Forms/SOWs).
- Provide other commercial-legal advisory (e.g., legacy agreement assessments).
- Help evolve our team's operations, templates, and strategies.
- Maintain strong ties with business and technical stakeholders of all levels towards efficiently actualizing A Financial Services Company's commercial goals.
- Shepherd key commercial agreements from start to close.
- Directly collaborate with Legal leads, Revenue/GTM leads, and other high-level Legal and Nonlegal stakeholders.
- Represent A Financial Services Company facing counterparties of all varieties (e.g., emerging v. established organizations, tech v. finance, etc.).
- Help design and build internal- and external-facing Commercial Legal frameworks that influence the entire Fintech ecosystem.
Qualifications:
- JD
- 5+ years of commercial-legal transactions experience.
- Strong law firm and/or in-house legal experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial data-tech agreements (e.g., MSAs) directly facing both: (i) high-performance internal Sales stakeholders, and (ii) sophisticated counterparty Legal resources.
- A Financial Services Company mentality ? Growth/impact mindset; positive, collaborative attitude, low ego; desire to autonomously and ambitiously build, progress, “make it better,” and seek (i.e., generate and test) your own answers before asking others; excellent legal and business judgment (e.g., issue spotting); proven strategies for partnering with fast-paced Sales stakeholders.
- Excellent skills re: communication, relationship-building, organization, and task-management.
- Understanding of security/privacy laws and market standards regarding the handling of end user data.
- Readiness to hit the ground running.
