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Senior Commercial Counsel I

Nium

Senior Commercial Counsel I

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London, Greater London, England, GBR

Hybrid

Senior level

Blockchain • Fintech • Payments • Cryptocurrency

The Role

Provide commercial legal support for payments, card, treasury, and digital-asset products. Lead drafting and negotiation of complex agreements, build scalable templates and playbooks, enable AI-enabled legal workflows, and partner cross-functionally to support strategic transactions and product launches.

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About Nium

Nium is the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments. We were founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. Our platform enables banks, fintechs, and global businesses to move money instantly, everywhere.

Co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore with offices in 14 markets worldwide, we are entering one of the most exciting chapters in our journey. In July 2025, we delivered the largest month in our 10-year history with record revenue, record volumes, and EBITDA profitability. Today, Nium moves nearly $50B in payments annually, almost entirely for enterprises, while continuing to strengthen an already healthy balance sheet.

It is an incredible time to join us, and we are only just getting started.

Our payout network spans 190+ countries and 100 currencies, with 100 corridors in real time. We power seamless transfers to accounts, wallets, and cards, support local collections in 35 markets, and run a card issuance business live in 34 countries. Backed by regulatory licenses in more than 40 markets, we make it simple for our partners to onboard, integrate, and scale globally. This scale and innovation have earned us recognition as one of CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025, winner of Best Cross-Border Payments Solution at the PayTech Awards, and inclusion in FXC Intelligence’s Top 100 Cross-Border Payments Companies list.

In 2024, we raised US$50 million in Series E funding at a US$1.4 billion valuation to accelerate network expansion, product innovation, and talent growth. With the B2B payments market projected to hit US$175 trillion by 2030, Nium offers ambitious builders the chance to shape the future of global money movement with the scale of a leader and the energy of a high-growth company.

About the Role

We are looking for a commercially minded, execution-oriented Senior Commercial Counsel I to support Nium’s next phase of global growth. You will serve as a trusted legal partner to our commercial, partnership, treasury, compliance, and executive teams, leading complex transactions across payments, card issuance, treasury, and digital asset and stablecoin-enabled solutions. Success requires exceptional commercial judgment, a pragmatic mindset, and the ability to deliver clear, business-focused advice at speed.

Our Legal Team

We are known for Speed, Clarity, and Trust. We move quickly without sacrificing judgment, give practical advice that helps teams act with confidence, and focus on enabling growth and navigating complexity. The best candidates are commercially minded, highly responsive, intellectually curious, and energised by complex problems.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the drafting, negotiation, and execution of complex commercial agreements with enterprise customers, financial institutions, fintechs, marketplaces, and strategic partners globally.
Own the company’s most strategic transactions end-to-end with minimal supervision.
Support the launch and scaling of new payment, card, treasury, and digital asset products, including stablecoin-enabled solutions.
Develop scalable legal infrastructure — templates, negotiation playbooks, contracting standards, and self-service resources.
Advise on vendor, technology, SaaS, data, and infrastructure agreements.
Collaborate cross-functionally with compliance, regulatory, privacy, finance, and product teams.
Drive adoption of AI-enabled legal workflows, contract automation, and knowledge management tools.

Requirements

5+ years’ experience as a qualified lawyer in-house, at a top law firm, or in a government agency.
Deep expertise in commercial contracts and building scalable legal infrastructure, ideally at high-growth companies.
Experience in payments, fintech, banking, digital assets, treasury, card, or other regulated financial services strongly preferred.
Highly collaborative, solutions-oriented, and biased toward action and impact.
Exceptional communication skills and the ability to translate complex legal concepts into practical business advice.
Strong proponent and adopter of technology and AI; humble, low-ego, and committed to continuous improvement.

How we measure success

Commercial Impact: Serves as lead counsel on complex transactions, accelerates revenue generation, and consistently proposes practical solutions rather than simply identifying issues.
Speed: Is known for responsiveness and execution. Drives negotiations forward, continuously improving turnaround times through better processes, templates, and AI-enabled tools.
Clarity: Translates complex legal and regulatory issues into concise, actionable guidance, and creates scalable self-service resources that empower teams to move faster.
Trust: Quickly becomes a trusted advisor to commercial, finance, compliance, treasury, and executive stakeholders through sound judgment, pragmatism, and deep product knowledge.
Raises the Bar: Improves the quality and scalability of legal support by building durable templates, playbooks, and frameworks — and consistently leaves every process better than they found it.

What we offer at Nium

We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.

We Care: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).

We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend.

We Constantly Innovate: Since our inception, Nium has received constant recognition and awards for how we approach both our business and talent opportunities. Check out CNBC World’s Top Fintech Companies 2024.

We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!

We Thrive With Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.

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This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Nium expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

Skills Required

5+ years' experience as a qualified lawyer in-house, at a top law firm, or in a government agency.
Deep expertise in commercial contracts and building scalable legal infrastructure (templates, playbooks, contracting standards).
Experience in payments, fintech, banking, digital assets, treasury, card, or other regulated financial services.
Exceptional communication skills and ability to translate complex legal and regulatory issues into practical business advice.
Highly collaborative, solutions-oriented, and biased toward action and impact.
Strong proponent and adopter of technology and AI; committed to continuous improvement and AI-enabled legal workflows.

Nium Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nium and has not been reviewed or approved by Nium.

Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered market-competitive in certain tech and sales roles and higher‑paying geographies, with upside evident for specific functions and seniority. Signals of strong totals in U.S. engineering/product and top‑end sales support a generally favorable footing.
Healthcare Strength — Company materials and external listings describe comprehensive health coverage and 24×7 assistance support aligned with a modern fintech package. These elements are positioned as core parts of the global offering.
Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous parental leave, standard PTO, and a company‑wide year‑end shutdown expand time‑off support beyond basics. Public career materials and job ads consistently reference these components.

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The Company

713 Employees

Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Nium is an advanced payments platform redefining the way consumers and businesses send, spend, and receive funds across borders. Nium’s goal is to make the movement of money seamless through being a universal plug for financial services. The company uses agile, elegant, and modular solutions for complex business problems. Be it an Individual, new-age digital bank, or a traditional industry behemoth, Nium prides itself on creating financial infrastructure for every level of sophistication. Nium’s key solutions: • Pay-ins • Pay-outs • Card issuance • Banking-as-a-service • Crypto-as-a-service We are a global leader in B2B modern money movement • Launched the world’s first global platform for crypto-as-a-service • $280M Funding • Series D • $2B Valuation o 130+M End customers o 190+ Payout markets o 100+ Supported currencies • Named on CB Insight’s Fintech 250 List • Financial Times’ List of Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies 2021 • Fintech Employer of the Year’ at the 2021 Singapore Fintech Festival • Best B2B Payment Platform’ at the 2021 Future Digital Awards

Why Work With Us

We, at Nium, are on a mission to transform modern money movement. We are driven by our co-created values of "seek the simple", "make it better" and "win it together". These aren't just buzzwords; they're how we do business every day and owned by each and every employee at Nium. We create new rules and new possibilities for a world of open money.