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Senior Legal Counsel

Paddle UK Remote senior full-time

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Description

As Senior Legal Counsel, you will be a senior member of the Paddle legal and compliance team, reporting directly to Paddle's Director of Legal.

The role will be broad and varied, with a core regulatory element. You will be delivering first-rate legal advice in a fast-paced dynamic environment, identifying risk and balancing common sense with your legal expertise.

Responsibilities:

  • Support the Director of Legal in their duties and advise and partner with every team from across the business on a wide range of matters
  • Leadership remit: work as part of a small team of lawyers in a wide range of legal work, including corporate and governance matters, administration of Paddle's international branches and subsidiaries, negotiating commercial agreements, regulatory research and advising our product and support teams
  • Strategic commercial work: assist in the negotiation of strategic commercial contracts, including key supplier and customer agreements
  • Strategic corporate work: assist with the negotiation of strategic corporate contracts, including financing agreements
  • Regulatory advice: lead on the identification and analysis of evolving rules and consumer regulations relevant to Paddle's global MoR business model, collaborate with the compliance function to develop and implement risk and compliance policies and procedures

Requirements:

  • Minimum of 8+ years of legal experience, with at least 3 years in-house at a regulated high-growth tech scale-up preferably in payments, FinTech, SaaS or related sectors
  • UK-qualified solicitor (preferably) or qualified in another common law or European jurisdiction
  • Excellent and persuasive communicator used to partnering with a range of stakeholders across the business and externally
  • Commercially-minded and able to deliver creative, helpful and practical solutions to a rapidly growing business

Benefits:

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

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

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

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