# Counsel II, Commercial

**Company**: Affirm
**Location**: Remote US
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $185,000 - $245,000 (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT)
$164,000 - $224,000 (all other U.S. states)
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/affirm/jobs/8199642003?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## 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 Commercial Legal (Revenue) team. You will partner closely with Sales, Strategic Partnerships, and other cross-functional teams to negotiate and manage a range of global commercial transactions.

Responsibilities:

- Lead negotiation, drafting, and execution of a wide range of global commercial agreements, including highly complex and new markets agreements.

- 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 Revenue, Product, Finance, Risk, 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.

- Build collaborative and effective working relationships with various teams in the U.S. and internationally.

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 fintech, payments, or financial services.

- Experience supporting global or multi-jurisdictional transactions.

- Strong working knowledge of data protection and privacy regimes such as GLBA, CCPA, GDPR, APPs, and PIPEDA.

- 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.

- 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.

Benefits:

- Health coverage at no cost: 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: Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount.

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

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## Skills

### Required
- GLBA
- CCPA
- GDPR
- APPs
- PIPEDA
- fintech
- payments
- financial services

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