taptapsend - Legal Counsel
Requirements
• Legally qualified (any jurisdiction) with 4-7 years of experience, including proven track record in-house, at a high-growth startup or fintech, or comparable private practice FinTech/payments experience • Demonstrated track record in a high-volume commercial contracting function • Comfort with metrics. You think about cycle time, deviation rate, and escalation rate and you use the numbers to drive process change. • Excellent at managing external counsel globally, balancing quality with cost. • Exceptional communicator who can distill complex legal and commercial issues into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyers. • Strong problem-solver with the instinct to diagnose root causes and design pragmatic solutions. • Highly organised and autonomous, able to run multiple high-stakes deliverables in parallel without dropping balls. • Comfortable with ambiguity, energised by new challenges, and willing to step outside your lane to get things done. • Fluent in English. French and/or Spanish a strong plus. • Outgoing - you love speaking to people and enjoy building meaningful relationships • Execution Oriented - we have an ‘impact first’ philosophy and a lot to get done. You should be able to take an idea to implementation • Mission Oriented - you are passionate about working for a net positive organisation / tech for good • Organised - you have a system for how you approach your work that can keep you on track in a scrappy startup environment • Driven - you thrive in a fast-paced, target oriented company • TAPTAP VALUES https://www.taptapsend.com/our-values • Propose solutions • Be proactively candid, with yourself and others • Love the particular • Create positive energy • Maybe, even have fun
Responsibilities
• Lead drafting, review, and negotiation of Taptap’s commercial agreements end-to-end, applying a risk-balanced approach that supports growth at startup speed. • Build and run the contract playbook. Develop, maintain, and continuously improve Taptap’s commercial contract playbook: standard positions, fallbacks, escalation triggers, and approved language across the deal types we see most. • Deploy AI and legal tech in production. Build, evaluate, and operate AI-assisted contract workflows and measure their quality against human review. • Advise the business on the deals that matter. Sit at the intersection of legal and business strategy on Taptap’s most consequential commercial decisions: major partnerships, market expansion, new products. • Manage external counsel effectively. Use outside counsel selectively, hold them to quality and turnaround, and keep spend proportional to risk. • Partner cross-functionally. Build workflows with product, finance, operations, compliance, and leadership so legal is a proactive enabler on the commercial side of the business. • Cover broader legal matters as needed. Step into other legal work where business priorities require it, keeping commercial objectives aligned with compliance and risk.
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