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Salary: USD 164,000 - 245,000 / annual
Affirm is seeking a transactional attorney to join the Vendor Legal team, which is being rebuilt from the ground up. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on negotiating and managing a high-volume pipeline of vendor agreements across marketing tech, technology services, cloud services, SaaS, data platforms, contractor agreements, creative services, leases, and payment processing engagements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead negotiation, drafting, and execution of diverse vendor agreements while managing high deal volume with speed and sound judgment
- Design, implement, and continuously improve playbooks, contract templates, negotiation guides, and operational tools that enable the team to scale efficiently
- Identify friction points in legal processes and build solutions that reduce cycle time without sacrificing quality
- Partner closely with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, Product, Finance, Information Security, Privacy, and other cross-functional 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
The role emphasizes pragmatism, solutions-oriented thinking, and the ability to balance risk with business velocity in a high-growth, technology-driven environment. You will work in a remote-first setting with flexibility, though new hires attend an in-person onboarding experience.
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 marketing tech, adtech, fintech, payments, or financial services
- Experience supporting global or multi-jurisdictional transactions (e.g., Canada, US, UK/EU, Australia)
- Strong working knowledge of data protection and privacy regimes such as CCPA, GDPR, APPs, PIPEDA, and GLBA
- Proven ability to manage high deal volume while maintaining quality, consistency, and attention to detail
- Track record of building or improving legal processes, playbooks, templates, or other operational tools in a high-growth environment
- Clear, concise communication skills with 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; ability to learn new products and business models quickly
- Proactive, self-starter mentality with bias for action
- Excellent judgment and ability to make timely, pragmatic, business-focused decisions in ambiguous situations with imperfect information
- Humility, integrity, and sense of humor
