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Negotiates and manages complex global commercial agreements for Affirm’s Revenue team. Partners with Sales, Strategic Partnerships, Product, Finance, Risk, Privacy, and other teams to provide practical legal guidance. Builds contract playbooks, templates, negotiation guides, training, and scalable processes that improve efficiency while managing risk. Supports fintech and payments transactions across multiple jurisdictions and advises stakeholders on privacy and data protection requirements.

Supports Affirm’s global licensing and regulatory program by coordinating state and international licensing requirements, annual reports, renewals, NMLS filings, call reports, and regulatory obligations. The role partners with Legal, Compliance, Finance, Tax, Product, and senior leadership, maintains licensing repositories and workflows, identifies issues, develops efficient processes using AI, and assists with regulatory research and licensing initiatives.

Leads Affirm’s global Product, Regulatory, Innovation, Licensing, Litigation, and Enforcement legal functions. Advises executives, board members, regulators, and cross-functional leaders on consumer financial products, payments, product development, regulatory matters, litigation, enforcement, and risk mitigation. Develops strategic plans, oversees regulatory inquiries and examinations, manages legal teams and budgets, and partners with senior leadership to support business growth and organizational effectiveness.

Counsel II will negotiate and execute diverse vendor agreements, including technology, cloud, SaaS, marketing technology, data platform, contractor, lease, and payment processing contracts. The role partners with Procurement, Finance, Engineering, Product, Information Security, Privacy, and other teams; develops legal playbooks, templates, and training; improves contracting processes; manages high deal volume; and provides practical guidance on privacy, data protection, and commercial legal matters.

Manage commercial and vendor agreements, amendments, NDAs, legal intake, contract approvals, and cross-functional reviews. Maintain templates, playbooks, training materials, and knowledge resources while communicating contract risks and requirements to business partners. Identify process improvements, meet internal service-level agreements, manage competing priorities, and partner with Legal Operations, Finance, Procurement, and other teams. The role independently handles routine and moderately complex matters and supports attorneys with strategic negotiations.