Description
At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter,giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.
The Legal, Compliance, and Public Affairs team is a group of dedicated professionals committed to helping Affirm scale, innovate, and provide outstanding products for consumers, merchants, and key partners.
Affirm seeks a practical, proactive, and people-oriented transactional attorney to join our Vendor Legal team. You are pragmatic, solutions-oriented, and comfortable balancing risk with business velocity in a high-growth, technology-driven environment.
You will partner closely with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, and other cross-functional teams to negotiate a range of vendor transactions. In addition to managing a busy deal pipeline, you will help design and improve processes, playbooks, and programs that increase efficiency so the team can scale with company growth.
This is a unique opportunity to help rebuild the Vendor Legal team from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Lead negotiation, drafting, and execution of a wide range of vendor agreements, including marketing tech, technology services, cloud services, SaaS, data platform, contractor, creative, lease, and payment processing engagements.
- Manage a high volume of deals with speed and sound judgment.
- Design, implement, and continuously improve playbooks, contract templates, negotiation guides, and other projects that enable the team to operate efficiently at scale.
- Identify friction points and build solutions that reduce cycle time without sacrificing quality.
- Work closely with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, Product, Finance, Information Security, Privacy, and other teams to provide clear, practical guidance.
- Serve as a proactive, strategic business partner to stakeholders across the organization.
- Develop and deliver training and resources that empower business partners to self-serve on routine commercial legal matters, increasing team capacity and reducing bottlenecks.
Requirements
- JD and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
- 5+ years of relevant transactional experience in-house at a technology company or in a technology practice group at a top law firm.
- Exceptional drafting skills.
- Experience in marketing tech, adtech, fintech, payments, or financial services.
- Experience supporting global or multi-jurisdictional transactions (e.g., Canada, US, UK/EU, Australia).
- Strong working knowledge of data protection and privacy regimes such as CCPA, GDPR, APPs, PIPEDA, and GLBA.
- Proven ability to manage high deal volume while maintaining quality, consistency, and attention to detail.
- A track record of building or improving legal processes, playbooks, templates, or other operational tools in a high-growth environment.
- Clear, concise communication skills, with the ability to distill complex legal and commercial issues into plain language.
- 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.
- Proactive, self-starter mentality with a bias for action.
- Excellent judgment, and ability to make timely, pragmatic, and business-focused decisions in ambiguous situations with imperfect information.
- Humility, integrity and a sense of humor; you take your work seriously, but not yourself.
Compensation
- Base Pay Grade - M
- Equity Grade - 6
- USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $185,000 - $245,000
- USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $164,000 - $224,000
Benefits
- Health coverage at no cost: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents.
- Spending stipends: Monthly stipends support your tech setup, and the ability to choose health and wellness options that are right for you.
- Time off to recharge: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to.
- Own a piece of what you build: Our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount.