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Salary: USD 152,000 - 210,000 / annual
Chime, a fintech company, is seeking a Commercial Counsel to join its legal team. In this role, you will serve as a strategic partner to the business on general commercial matters, negotiating and drafting contracts that span from major deals to essential operational agreements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Work closely with business teams to provide strategic guidance on and negotiate, draft, and review a broad range of commercial agreements, including SaaS agreements, strategic partnership agreements, NDAs, marketing agreements (talent agreements, production services agreements, Ad-Tech agreements), technology vendor contracts, and professional services agreements
- Integrate AI tools into your daily work for drafting, contract review, research, and summarization, while applying sound legal judgment to verify and refine outputs
- Proactively streamline and improve legal processes by creating templates, developing legal trainings, and building playbooks
- Build and refine AI-enabled workflows that help the legal team and business operate faster and more efficiently
- Develop strong collaborative relationships across functions and within the legal team, including with subject matter experts in intellectual property, security, and privacy
- Escalate issues appropriately to other legal team members and collaboratively share potential risks and proposals with the executive team
You will work in a hybrid arrangement with four days per week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of Chime's offices (San Francisco, Chicago, or New York City).
Requirements:
- J.D. and active membership in at least one state bar
- 2-5 years of combined law firm, government, and/or in-house experience
- Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial agreements
- Genuine excitement about using AI to build efficient processes, with willingness to experiment, iterate, and share learnings
- Comfort using AI tools in day-to-day work and commitment to responsible use, including awareness of confidentiality, privilege, and accuracy considerations
- Practical business judgment and problem-solving skills to understand business needs, provide strategic guidance, and craft creative solutions
- Willingness to dig deep into agreement subject matter
- Track record of success handling complex business and legal issues
- Ability to work collaboratively and develop positive relationships with internal partners and external stakeholders
- Excellent organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines while maintaining a positive attitude
- Familiarity with fintech, technology, banking, or financial services companies (preferred but not required)
