Senior Legal Counsel (Fintech)

Location: UK; remote workplace. The role is global in scope and hiring is focused within hirify.global hubs.

Company

hirify.global provides Merchant of Record payment infrastructure for digital product companies, serving more than 10,000 software sellers across 245 territories.

What you will do

• Advise teams across the business on corporate, governance, subsidiary administration, commercial, regulatory, privacy, and data-related matters.
• Support the Director of Legal and contribute to a broad range of legal work within a small team.
• Negotiate strategic supplier, customer, corporate, financing, and other commercial agreements.
• Lead the identification and analysis of evolving rules and consumer regulations affecting the global Merchant of Record business model.
• Collaborate with compliance to develop and implement risk and compliance policies and procedures.
• Draft and negotiate data protection agreements, terms of service, privacy policies, and related contracts and disclosures; supervise trainee lawyers where needed.

Requirements

• Minimum 8+ years of legal experience, including at least 3 years in-house at a regulated, high-growth technology scale-up; payments, FinTech, SaaS, or related-sector experience is preferred.
• UK-qualified solicitor preferred; qualification in another common-law or European jurisdiction is also considered.
• Experience leading and supporting junior team members, with an interest in helping them develop and pursue SRA qualification.
• Ability to learn quickly and understand new and complex legal concepts, including through first-principles analysis.
• Excellent, persuasive communication and stakeholder-partnering skills across internal teams and external parties.
• Ability to tailor legal advice to senior management and junior contributors.
• Commercial judgment and the ability to provide creative, practical solutions in a rapidly growing, ambiguous, and pressured environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Transparent, collaborative, respectful, and inclusive culture focused on removing barriers and supporting individual perspectives.
• Digital-first working model with autonomy over where, when, and how to work within hub locations.
• Attractive salary, stock options, unlimited holidays, enhanced parental leave, retirement plans, private healthcare, and well-being initiatives.
• Annual learning fund, regular internal and external training, and ongoing exposure to new challenges.
• Global hubs in the UK, Portugal, the Netherlands, Ireland, the United States, Canada, and Singapore.