[Hiring] Manager, Legal @Qore Technologies Limited

Role Description

Lead the review, drafting, negotiation and management of commercial agreements across Qore’s business lines, including:

• Platform agreements
• Technology contracts
• Vendor agreements
• Partnership arrangements
• NDAs
• Service agreements
• Data processing agreements
• Other commercial documentation

Provide legal advisory support to business teams on:

• Commercial decisions
• Product structures
• Operational matters
• Employment-adjacent issues
• Regulatory-adjacent questions
• Other matters with legal implications

Manage the contract lifecycle, including:

• Intake
• Review
• Negotiation
• Execution
• Filing
• Renewal tracking
• Expiry tracking
• Repository discipline

Ensure contracts and legal documents are reviewed within agreed SLAs and through the approved task management system.

Identify, assess and escalate legal risks, including:

• Risks connected to the PSSP licence process
• Regulatory engagement
• Market expansion
• Commercial transactions
• Customer commitments
• Partner relationships

Coordinate with Regulatory Affairs, Compliance, Risk, Privacy and Corporate Governance leads on matters with cross-domain legal implications.

Support the Chief LRCC Officer on:

• Board-facing legal matters
• Shareholder and equity matters
• Corporate structure questions
• Investor-related legal documentation
• Governance-adjacent legal work

Maintain and improve Qore’s legal documentation infrastructure, including:

• Templates
• Standard terms
• Clause libraries
• Precedent records
• Legal playbooks

Brief, instruct and supervise external counsel on matters referred externally, and manage associated costs within approved parameters.

Review AI-assisted legal outputs before they are treated as legal positions, used in external communications, escalated to management, or submitted to the Board, regulators or counterparties.

Provide occasional cross-functional support to other LRCC teams in crisis or high-priority matters, where legal judgement or generalist LRCC experience is required.

Qualifications

• Nigerian-qualified lawyer with LLB and BL
• Minimum of 6–8 years’ post-call experience
• Experience in a reputable commercial law firm and an in-house / industry role within a regulated business, financial services institution, fintech, payments company, technology company or similarly complex environment
• Strong commercial legal drafting, negotiation and advisory experience
• Strong understanding of Nigerian and African commercial law, corporate law, contract fundamentals, technology contracting and the legal environment for fintech, payments or digital financial services
• Experience advising on commercial contracts, regulatory-adjacent legal issues, product or technology matters, data protection clauses, vendor risk and business expansion
• Good generalist legal range across commercial contracts, regulatory-adjacent advisory, corporate governance, dispute support, employment-adjacent legal issues and legal risk management
• Experience managing multiple workstreams simultaneously with structured, documented output and strong SLA discipline
• Experience working with or managing external counsel
• Strong written communication, sound judgement under pressure and the ability to explain legal risk clearly to non-lawyers
• Comfort working in a lean, high-accountability, AI-enabled legal and governance environment

Requirements

• Advantageous experience in fintech, payments, banking infrastructure, lending automation, financial technology, SaaS or regulated technology businesses
• Experience supporting Board-facing, investor-facing or regulator-facing legal matters
• LLM, compliance, governance, technology law, data protection or financial services qualification

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a commercially grounded lawyer who can move between detail and judgement quickly. They are:

• Precise with documents
• Practical with advice
• Disciplined with timelines
• Mature enough to know when a matter can be resolved at Legal level and when it must be escalated
• Comfortable operating in a growing function where structure is being deliberately built
• Able to enable speed without compromising defensibility

Benefits

• Very Competitive & Rewarding Pay
• Flexible work option (i.e., Remote)
• Paid Lunch (i.e., if working onsite)
• Lifelong Learnings