paddle - Senior Legal Counsel

• You will 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, including the following: • Leadership remit: As a senior member of the team, you will 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. Your duties may include supervising in-house trainee lawyers seeking their SRA qualification. • Strategic commercial work: You will assist in the negotiation of strategic commercial contracts, including key supplier and customer agreements. • Strategic corporate work: You will assist with the negotiation of strategic corporate contracts, including financing agreements. • Regulatory advice (incl data protection): • You will lead on the identification and analysis of evolving rules and consumer regulations relevant to Paddle’s global MoR business model. • You will collaborate with the compliance function to develop and implement risk and compliance policies and procedures relevant to Paddle’s operations and the MoR business model. • You will draft, negotiate, and advise on data protection agreements, terms of service, privacy policies, and other privacy- and data-related contracts and disclosures, collaborating closely with the compliance function. • We'd love to hear from you if you: • You have a 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. • You are a UK-qualified solicitor (preferably) or qualified in another common law or European jurisdiction. • You enjoy leading and working with junior team members, helping them to grow and realise their potential. • You are smart, curious, keen to learn and have a proven ability to quickly get across new and complex legal concepts. • You are used to working from first principles, applying common sense, and excited about answering questions you have never dealt with before. • You are an excellent and persuasive communicator used to partnering with a range of stakeholders across the business and externally. • You are skilled at tailoring your legal advice to the recipient, whether they be senior management or a junior contributor. • You are commercially-minded and able to deliver creative, helpful and practical solutions to a rapidly growing business, often operating under pressure and in an area characterized by ambiguity. • Everyone is welcome at Paddle • At Paddle, we’re committed to removing invisible barriers, both for our customers and within our own teams. We recognise and celebrate that every Paddler is unique and we welcome every individual perspective. As an inclusive employer, we don’t care if, or where, you studied, what you look like or where you’re from. We’re more interested in your craft, curiosity, passion for learning and what you’ll add to our culture. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t match every part of the job ad, especially if you’re part of an underrepresented group. • Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to better support you through the application process and in the workplace. We will do everything we can to support any accommodations needed. We’re committed to building a diverse team where everyone feels safe to be their authentic self. Let’s grow together.