[Hiring] Corporate Legal Counsel @NMI

Role Description

NMI is looking for a dynamic and motivated Corporate Counsel to join our legal team! This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading Fintech company, advising on a wide range of commercial agreements and corporate issues within a fast-growing and supportive environment.

As Corporate Counsel you will work across a diverse scope of legal matters:

• Drafting and negotiating agreements that support our UK and US-based sales teams.
• Handling data protection requests and compliance matters.
• Providing business-minded legal advice to teammates across NMI.
• Negotiating vendor agreements and advising on contracting models, product design, compliance, corporate governance, and other legal issues.
• Maintaining and developing the business's template agreements, contract review guidebooks, and responding to NMI's evolving legal needs.

This is a remote role reporting to the Associate General Counsel.

Qualifications

• 2+ years PQE, whether in private practice or in-house.
• Qualified solicitor or barrister in England and Wales, with a current practising certificate.
• Ability to provide practical, business-oriented legal and commercial contract advice directly to colleagues at all levels.
• Creative and strategic thinker who can create and improve upon processes to drive efficiencies.
• Experience with, or willingness to, work on corporate and commercial matters in both the UK and the US.
• Quick learner who is comfortable navigating new and unfamiliar matters.
• Thrives while working in a fast-paced environment.
• Operates independently and can act decisively.

Requirements

• Experience in-house at a fast-growing technology company or advising FinTechs at a law firm.
• Strong interest in and awareness of the payment industry sector, and SaaS contracting models.
• Payment industry or account-to-account payment experience is a plus (but not required).
• Privacy expertise, including familiarity with the GDPR. CIPP/E or CIPP/M certification is a plus (but not required).

Benefits

• Annual bonus scheme dependent on individual and company performance.
• Annual salary of £65,000—£95,000 GBP.
• 25 days holiday each year (+ bank holidays + 1 day after each year of service with up to a max. of 30 days).
• Workplace pension scheme.
• Private medical insurance (upon 30 days of employment).
• 7 hours per day, 35 hours per week.
• A remote first culture.
• Great work-life balance with our Flexi-time policy.
• Family Friendly policies (Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay and Shared Parental Leave).
• A chance to develop with an allocated company training budget.
• Bike2Work Scheme.
• Lifeworks, an Employee Assistance Programme which offers wellbeing, family and financial support services.
• A strong commitment to employee wellbeing including mental health first aiders.
• Employee referral scheme with generous financial reward.
• Bonusly colleague reward scheme.