Counsel (Vendor)

Join Affirm's Legal, Compliance, and Public Affairs team as a Counsel (Vendor). In this role, you will lead the negotiation, drafting, and execution of various vendor agreements, manage a high volume of deals, and design and improve processes to increase efficiency. You will work closely with cross-functional teams and serve as a strategic business partner. This is a unique opportunity to help rebuild the Vendor Legal team from the ground up.

• Lead negotiation, drafting, and execution of a wide range of vendor agreements, including marketing tech, technology services, cloud services, SaaS, data platform, contractor, creative, lease, and payment processing engagements.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve playbooks, contract templates, negotiation guides, and other projects that enable the team to operate efficiently at scale.
• Work closely with Procurement, Financial Partnerships, Engineering, Product, Finance, Information Security, Privacy, and other teams to provide clear, practical guidance.

• Affirm seeks a practical, proactive, and people-oriented transactional attorney to join our Vendor Legal team
• Proactive, self-starter mentality with a bias for action
• Intellectual curiosity and creative problem-solving instincts: you learn new products and business models quickly and enjoy finding solutions to novel challenges
• Collaborative working style, with experience guiding cross-functional teams toward practical, win-win outcomes
• A track record of building or improving legal processes, playbooks, templates, or other operational tools in a high-growth environment
• Experience in marketing tech, adtech, fintech, payments, or financial services
• Proven ability to manage high deal volume while maintaining quality, consistency, and attention to detail
• JD and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar
• Excellent judgment, and ability to make timely, pragmatic, and business-focused decisions in ambiguous situations with imperfect information
• Clear, concise communication skills, with the ability to distill complex legal and commercial issues into plain language
• Humility, integrity and a sense of humor; you take your work seriously, but not yourself
• 5+ years of relevant transactional experience in-house at a technology company or in a technology practice group at a top law firm
• Experience supporting global or multi-jurisdictional transactions (e.g., Canada, US, UK/EU, Australia)
• Exceptional drafting skills
• Strong working knowledge of data protection and privacy regimes such as CCPA, GDPR, APPs, PIPEDA, and GLBA