Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with an ambitious mission to revolutionize the payroll & payments industry. With over $400M raised from multiple tier-one investors, our innovative technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, encompassing everything from hiring and onboarding to managing and paying employees in over 160 countries.
We are seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to join our growing Legal team.
Our ideal candidate is an experienced High-Tech/technology and payments lawyer. As a commercial lawyer, you will be working on a wide variety of commercial contracts, including services agreements and vendor agreements, privacy issues and payments matters, as well as other general corporate 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 agreements).
- Advise on payments laws and work closely with the product and payments teams to ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and payments licenses.
- Keep up to date and analyze global privacy regulations to ensure continued alignment of the company’s products and data processing to such regulations.
- Interact and work with the company's departments (sales, product, marketing, finance) on diverse legal issues.
- Perform and provide other general corporate law advice as needed.
Salary Range: $160,000- $180,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications.
This role is based in New York (hybrid)
Requirements- A New York licensed attorney with minimum 4 years experience as in-house counsel for a Hi-Tech/Fintech company or prominent law firm.
- Proven legal experience in the field of payments and privacy.
- Fluent English (written and oral).
- Attention to detail.
- Good organizational and time-management skills.
- Multi tasker, self-motivated and persistent.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
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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
