Senior Legal Counsel

• Join Paddle as Senior Legal Counsel, working fully remotely from the UK. • Work as a senior member of the legal and compliance team, reporting directly to the Director of Legal. • Deliver first-rate legal advice in a fast-paced environment with a core regulatory element and global scope. • Partner with teams across the business to help it reach its goals while taking a long-term strategic view. • Act as a broad generalist, comfortable with ambiguity and creative, practical problem-solving. • Support the growth of junior lawyers, which may include supervising in-house trainees seeking their SRA qualification.

• Bring at least 8 years of legal experience, including at least 3 years in-house at a regulated high-growth tech scale-up, ideally in payments, FinTech or SaaS. • Hold UK solicitor qualification, or qualification in another common law or European jurisdiction. • Show the ability to learn new and complex legal concepts quickly and to work from first principles. • Communicate persuasively with stakeholders across the business and externally. • Tailor legal advice to the audience, from senior management to junior contributors. • Deliver commercially minded, practical solutions under pressure in an ambiguous environment. • Enjoy leading and developing junior team members.

• Have experience in payments, FinTech, SaaS or related sectors. • Hold UK solicitor qualification rather than another jurisdiction's. • Have experience supervising trainee lawyers. • Have experience with regulatory research and data protection matters.

• Support the Director of Legal and advise every team across the business on a wide range of matters. • Handle corporate and governance matters and administer Paddle's international branches and subsidiaries. • Assist in negotiating strategic commercial contracts, including key supplier and customer agreements. • Assist in negotiating strategic corporate contracts, including financing agreements. • Lead on identifying and analysing evolving rules and consumer regulations relevant to Paddle's global Merchant of Record model. • Work with the compliance function to develop and implement risk and compliance policies and procedures. • Draft, negotiate and advise on data protection agreements, terms of service, privacy policies and related disclosures. • Advise product and support teams and supervise in-house trainee lawyers where needed.

• Work remotely from the UK with the freedom to choose where, when and how you work. • Receive an attractive salary and stock options. • Enjoy unlimited holidays and enhanced parental leave. • Benefit from retirement plans, private healthcare and well-being initiatives. • Grow with an annual learning fund and regular internal and external training. • Join a transparent, collaborative and inclusive culture with access to global hubs.

Paddle is a Merchant of Record that gives digital product companies a simpler alternative to managing a fragmented payments stack. It serves over 10,000 software sellers in 245 territories globally. Paddle is backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion and 83North.