Legal Counsel

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London, Greater London, England, GBR
Hybrid
Mid level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
Legal Counsel will draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts, including services agreements, NDAs, DPAs, and SaaS licenses. The role also advises on privacy, labor, and general corporate matters while partnering with sales, product, marketing, finance, and payments teams. The counsel will use AI-assisted tools for contract review, legal research, risk analysis, document drafting, and workflow efficiency while maintaining confidentiality, accuracy, compliance, and professional judgment.
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Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with a mission to revolutionize the payroll and payments industry. With over $400M raised from top-tier investors, our innovative technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, from hiring and onboarding to managing and paying employees in over 160 countries.

As part of our continued growth, we’re expanding our in-house Legal Team and are now looking for another Legal Counsel to join us. Our ideal candidate is an experienced High-Tech/technology lawyer. As a commercial lawyer, you will be working on a wide variety of commercial contracts, including services agreements and vendor agreements, privacy matters, as well as other general corporate, labor and privacy law advice.

You will:

  • Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of legal contracts with clients, partners, vendors, and third parties (services agreements, NDAs, DPAs, SaaS license agreements).
  • Assist with labor law and privacy issues.
  • Interact and work with the company's departments (sales, product, marketing, finance, payments) on diverse legal issues.
  • Perform and provide other general corporate law advice as needed.
  • Leverage AI-powered tools to support contract review, clause analysis, risk identification, and drafting efficiency while ensuring full legal accuracy and compliance.
  • Use AI-assisted workflows to improve the speed and consistency of reviewing commercial agreements, privacy documentation, and corporate legal materials.
  • Apply AI tools to assist in legal research, summarization of complex legal materials, and preparation of first-draft legal documents, while maintaining full professional legal judgment and oversight.
Requirements
  • EU-qualified attorney/lawyer with 3–5 years of experience in a High-Tech/Commercial department within a law firm or in-house legal team.
  • Fluent English (written and oral).
  • Attention to detail.
  • Strong organizational and time-management skills.
  • Self-motivated and persistent.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Hands on experience to effectively leverage AI tools to enhance legal drafting, contract review, risk analysis, and legal workflow efficiency.
  • Practical experience using AI-assisted tools to support commercial legal work while maintaining high standards of accuracy, confidentiality, and professional judgment.

Skills Required

  • EU-qualified attorney or lawyer
  • 3–5 years of experience in a high-tech or commercial legal department at a law firm or in-house legal team
  • Fluent English, written and oral
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Strong organizational and time-management skills
  • Self-motivated and persistent
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Hands-on experience using AI tools for legal drafting, contract review, risk analysis, and legal workflow efficiency
  • Practical experience using AI-assisted tools in commercial legal work while maintaining accuracy, confidentiality, and professional judgment
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
807 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Imagine controlling all your global payroll and payments from a single place, supported by certified experts who keep you compliant in every country, even when laws change. No more juggling third parties. No more foreign bank accounts. No more repetitive manual work. Finally, there’s one platform that gives you total control of your global operations, from creating local contracts automatically to paying workers in the local currency of 160+ countries. It’s called Papaya Global, and we’d love to show it to you. Papaya Global: How the world gets paid

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