[Hiring] Counsel II @Affirm

Role Description

Affirm’s Commercial Legal (Revenue) team is instrumental in building, scaling, and supporting the framework for global commercial transactions and GTM efforts. In this role, you will be a key advisor to Affirm’s fast-growing sales, partnerships, and merchant success teams.

• Structure, draft, negotiate, and review a broad range of global commercial agreements, including highly complex and novel agreements.
• Collaborate with and provide strategic and legal advice to various cross-functional teams, including but not limited to, sales, product, finance, tax, customer ops, and risk.
• Lead or participate in projects to improve internal processes and increase the efficiency and scalability of the Commercial Legal team.
• Train and help educate internal business partners.
• Manage and resolve legal issues that arise in existing domestic and international commercial relationships.
• Build and improve templates for global revenue-generating commercial agreements.
• Build collaborative and effective working relationships with various teams in the U.S. and internationally.

Qualifications

• JD from an accredited school and current member in good standing of the bar in at least one state in the United States.
• 5+ years of complex commercial drafting and negotiation experience (ideally on revenue-generating contracts); prior in-house and law-firm experience is a plus.
• Great project management skills with the ability to organize, prioritize, and remain collected under pressure.
• Ability to prioritize and advance multiple concurrent deals on tight deadlines while producing strong quality work product.
• Excellent judgment, and ability to make timely, pragmatic, and business-focused decisions in ambiguous situations with imperfect information.
• A strong work ethic, sense of ownership, accountability, and proactive willingness to jump in and do whatever needs to be done.
• Experience drafting and negotiating data privacy terms, including but not limited to, CCPA, GLBA, and GDPR contract terms.
• Clear and concise communication skills to effectively collaborate and negotiate with both internal and external business and legal teams.
• Adaptability in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and an enthusiasm for learning.
• Humility, integrity, and a sense of humor; you take your work seriously, but not yourself.

Requirements

• Pay Grade - M
• Equity Grade - 6
• Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range.
• Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents).
• USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $180,000 - $230,000.
• USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $160,000 - $210,000.

Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses.
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge.
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.