The Role
Lead legal and regulatory work for cashless and wallet product launches across jurisdictions; draft, review, and audit PSP and payments contracts; advise tax, product, finance, and labor teams; manage outside counsel; and establish contract best practices.
Summary Generated by Built In
We're looking for a Senior Fintech Legal Counsel to lead the legal and regulatory side of our payments agenda — from launching cashless and wallet products across multiple jurisdictions to negotiating contracts with PSPs and partnering with tax, product, and LBP teams to keep launches compliant and commercially sound. The role suits someone with deep payments and fintech regulatory expertise who's comfortable owning complex, cross-border questions end-to-end.
Key Responsibilities
- Regulatory analysis for implementation of hard / light cashless.
- Review of contracts with PSPs for launch of hard / light cashless.
- Work with the tax team to ensure tax efficiency of cashless schemes.
- Work with LBP teams to ensure no labour law risks with cashless launches.
- Regulatory analysis and legal support of wallet launches.
- Audit of existing contracts with PSPs.
- Elaborate best practices for contracts with PSPs.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- 4–7 years PQE, with at least 3 years focused on payments / fintech / financial services regulation, in a law firm and/or in-house at a global business.
- Working knowledge of payments and e-money regulation across multiple regions.
- Hands-on experience drafting and negotiating core payments contracts, including with PSPs, acquirers, and payout/disbursement partners.
- Experience with marketplace payment flows.
- Proven ability to advise business, product, finance, and tax stakeholders on new product launches and market entries, and to manage outside counsel across jurisdictions.
- Strong commercial judgment and clear, risk-weighted advice; pragmatic, high-ownership, and comfortable with ambiguity.
- Full professional fluency in Russian and English.
- Law degree and admission to practice in at least one jurisdiction.
Why join us
- Help us challenge injustice by creating fair choices for millions of people across 48 countries.
- Develop your professional skills with access to mentoring, career consulting, and learning programs.
- Collaborate with teams around the world and gain international experience through our Global Talent Exchange Program.
- Engage in company-wide challenges, awards, sports activities, employee-led social impact and volunteering projects.
- Work alongside people who take initiative, speak openly, and challenge themselves to grow.
- Improve your language skills through co-financed courses and internal speaking clubs.
Final benefits may vary depending on the location.
About
inDrive is a global tech company on a mission to challenge injustice through fair choices. We started in 2012 in the coldest city on Earth, when a group of friends created a way for people to agree on fair ride prices. That idea grew into one of the world’s top ride-hailing apps, now with 400M installs across 48 countries.Today, we offer more than rides: from freight and delivery to intercity travel and financial services, all designed to put people first. We are committed to having a positive impact on people’s lives both through our core business, which supports local communities via a fair pricing model; and through the work of our impact programs. Ready to ignite your inner drive?
Skills Required
- 4-7 years PQE, with at least 3 years focused on payments / fintech / financial services regulation, in a law firm and/or in-house at a global business.
- Working knowledge of payments and e-money regulation across multiple regions.
- Hands-on experience drafting and negotiating core payments contracts, including with PSPs, acquirers, and payout/disbursement partners.
- Experience with marketplace payment flows.
- Proven ability to advise business, product, finance, and tax stakeholders on new product launches and market entries, and to manage outside counsel across jurisdictions.
- Strong commercial judgment and clear, risk-weighted advice; pragmatic, high-ownership, and comfortable with ambiguity.
- Full professional fluency in Russian and English.
- Law degree and admission to practice in at least one jurisdiction.
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The Company
What We Do
inDrive is a global IT and transportation platform inDrive is one of the world’s fastest growing online ride-hailing services. Its services are available in over 749 cities in 46 countries throughout the world. The Company’s app has been downloaded over 150 million times. inDrive offers other services, including intercity transportation, freight and cargo services, as well as delivery services in different markets of operations. inDrive is based in Mountain View, California, and operates regional hubs in the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the countries of the CIS, and employs over 2,000 people. In early 2021, inDrive achieved unicorn status after closing a $140m investment round with Insight Partners, General Catalyst, and Bond Capital, which valued the company at $1.23 billion.
