Head of Legal – Payments, Fintech

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🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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SUNDAZE Digital

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

🤝 B2B

🎯 Recruiter

☁️ SaaS

B2B • Recruitment • SaaS

SUNDAZE Digital is a staffing services company that specializes in connecting businesses with qualified talent globally and affordably. With a promise to deliver the first candidates within 48 hours, SUNDAZE implements personalized hiring strategies to meet diverse client needs across various market domains. Their services encompass talent recruitment, team extension, and exclusive staffing solutions, all aimed at saving time and ensuring budget efficiency while maintaining high quality.

📋 Description

• Own and further develop the company's legal function, policies and legal processes • Act as a strategic legal partner to founders and senior management • Build a scalable legal framework supporting the company's growth across different markets • Identify legal risks and provide practical, business-oriented solutions • Coordinate external legal counsel where required • Provide legal support across the company's payment operations and recurring payment model • Advise on applicable payment services, fintech and financial-services regulation • Support relationships and contractual frameworks with acquiring banks, PSPs, payment partners and other financial institutions • Work closely with Compliance and Risk teams on regulatory requirements, AML/KYC-related matters and internal policies • Support licensing, regulatory applications and expansion into new jurisdictions where applicable • Monitor regulatory developments relevant to the business and translate them into actionable requirements • Draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements with merchants, partners, vendors and technology providers • Manage agreements with PSPs, acquirers, banks and other payment ecosystem partners • Develop and standardise contract templates and contracting processes • Support Sales and Account Management teams during negotiations with strategic clients • Advise the business on contractual liability, termination, pricing structures, SLAs, disputes and other commercial matters • Provide legal guidance around subscription-based business models and recurring billing • Support the development of customer terms, merchant agreements and payment-related policies • Advise on consumer protection, cancellation and refund requirements, chargebacks and recurring payment authorisation • Work with Product and Commercial teams to ensure new payment flows and products are legally compliant and commercially scalable • Advise on GDPR, privacy, data processing and data-sharing arrangements • Review new products, integrations and features from a legal and regulatory perspective • Work closely with Product and Tech teams to embed legal requirements into product development rather than addressing them only after launch • Support corporate governance and internal legal documentation • Manage legal aspects of corporate structuring and international expansion • Support shareholder, investment, financing and M&A-related matters when required • Establish effective legal risk management and reporting processes

🎯 Requirements

• Strong legal background with significant experience in fintech, payments, PSP, acquiring, payment gateways or financial services • Solid understanding of the European payments regulatory environment • Experience working with commercial contracts in an international B2B environment • Understanding of recurring payments and subscription-based business models is a strong advantage • Good knowledge of GDPR, consumer protection and digital services regulation • Ability to work directly with founders and senior leadership • Strong commercial judgement — able to explain not only what the legal risk is, but how the business can move forward safely • Comfortable operating in a fast-changing environment with a high degree of ownership • Experience building or scaling a legal function would be a strong advantage • Fluent English