Commercial Counsel

Responsibilities

• Affirm’s Commercial Legal (Revenue) team is instrumental in building, scaling, and supporting the framework for global commercial transactions and GTM efforts. We focus on structuring, drafting, and negotiating commercial and strategic partnerships involving a diverse range of financial and technology products and services while navigating a complex set of regulations.
• In this role, you will be a key advisor to affirm’s fast-growing sales, partnerships, and merchant success teams.
• Structure, draft, negotiate, and review a broad range of global commercial agreements, including highly complex and novel agreements.
• Collaborate with and provide strategic and legal advice to various cross‑functional teams, including but not limited to, sales, product, finance, tax, customer ops and risk.
• Lead or participate in projects to improve internal processes and increase the efficiency and scalability of the Commercial Legal team.
• Train and help educate internal business partners.
• Manage and resolve legal issues that arise in existing domestic and international commercial relationships.
• Build and improve templates for global revenue‑generating commercial agreements.
• Build collaborative and effective working relationships with various teams in the U.S. and internationally.

Benefits

• Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote‑first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family.
• Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses.
• Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups.
• Remote‑first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country.
• Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens.
• Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs.
• Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs.
• Parental Leave: Birth and non‑birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4‑week return‑to‑work transition program, at full base pay.
• Away Days: We offer 20 company‑wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge.
• Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth.

Qualifications

• A strong work ethic, sense of ownership, accountability, and proactive willingness to jump in and do whatever needs to be done.
• Clear and concise communication skills to effectively collaborate and negotiate with both internal and external business and legal teams.
• Excellent judgment and ability to make timely, pragmatic, and business‑focused decisions in ambiguous situations with imperfect information.
• Great project management skills with the ability to organize, prioritize, and remain collected under pressure.
• Adaptability in a fast‑paced, high‑growth environment and an enthusiasm for learning.
• JD from an accredited school and current member in good standing of the bar in at least one state in the United States.
• 5+ years of complex commercial drafting and negotiation experience (ideally on revenue‑generating contracts); prior in‑house and law‑firm experience is a plus.
• Humility, integrity and a sense of humor; you take your work seriously, but not yourself.
• Ability to prioritize and advance multiple concurrent deals on tight deadlines while producing strong quality work product.
• Experience drafting and negotiating data privacy terms, including but not limited to, CCPA, GLBA and GDPR contract terms.