Senior Legal Counsel

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.

Nice to have