Responsibilities

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.
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
What we look for
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)

Counsel II, Vendor at Affirm · LumiJobs

Counsel II, Vendor

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