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Senior Legal Counsel

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🔥 2 minutes ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Posted on Paddle's careers page, not through a job board

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Paddle

201 - 500 employees

☁️ SaaS

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

💰 Debt Financing on 2022-05

SaaS • Fintech • B2B

Paddle is a comprehensive merchant of record and payment solution specifically designed for SaaS businesses. It provides a complete suite of products and services including billing, subscription management, pricing strategies, tax compliance, fraud protection, and more. Paddle helps software companies manage payments, streamline billing, and enhance customer retention with tools like ProfitWell Metrics and Price Intelligently. By handling sales taxes, fraud liability, and all aspects of the billing process, Paddle enables SaaS businesses to focus on growth without worrying about the complexities of global compliance.

📋 Description

• Support the Director of Legal in their duties • Advise and partner with teams across the business on a wide range of legal matters • Work as part of a small legal team on corporate and governance matters • Administer Paddle’s international branches and subsidiaries • Negotiate commercial agreements, including strategic supplier and customer agreements • Negotiate strategic corporate contracts, including financing agreements • Conduct regulatory research and advise product and support teams • Supervise in-house trainee lawyers seeking their SRA qualification • Identify and analyze evolving rules and consumer regulations relevant to Paddle’s global Merchant of Record business model • Collaborate with compliance to develop and implement risk and compliance policies and procedures • Draft, negotiate, and advise on data protection agreements, terms of service, privacy policies, and other privacy- and data-related contracts and disclosures • Deliver legal advice and context-appropriate solutions supporting customer experience and business goals

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 8+ years of legal experience • At least 3 years in-house at a regulated high-growth tech scale-up, preferably in payments, FinTech, SaaS or related sectors • UK-qualified solicitor (preferably) or qualified in another common law or European jurisdiction • Ability to lead and work with junior team members • Proven ability to quickly understand new and complex legal concepts • Ability to work from first principles and apply common sense • Excellent and persuasive communication skills • Experience partnering with stakeholders across the business and externally • Ability to tailor legal advice to senior management and junior contributors • Commercial mindset and ability to deliver creative, helpful and practical solutions under pressure and ambiguity • Experience or knowledge of corporate and governance matters, international branches and subsidiaries, commercial agreements, regulatory research, consumer regulations, data protection, privacy policies, and compliance policies and procedures

🏖️ Benefits

• Attractive salary • Stock options • Unlimited holidays • Enhanced parental leave • Retirement plans • Private healthcare • Well-being initiatives • Annual learning fund • Regular internal and external training • Freedom to choose where, when and how to work within hub locations • Trust and autonomy in working arrangements • Global hubs for focused collaboration

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