Senior Legal Counsel (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Legal Counsel (Fintech): Leading the negotiation, drafting, and execution of complex commercial agreements and providing senior-level legal counsel on IP, data protection, cybersecurity, and regulatory matters. Focus on evolving vendor legal governance, ensuring legal alignment with product development, and designing scalable legal processes for operational efficiency and risk visibility.

Location: Flexible working hours and a hybrid work format. Relocation support is available.

Company

hirify.global is the world’s largest financial analysis platform with 100M+ users across 180+ countries, building tools for traders and investors.

What you will do

• Lead negotiation, drafting, and execution of complex commercial agreements with technology partners and service providers.
• Provide senior-level legal counsel on intellectual property, data protection, cybersecurity, commercial risk, and regulatory exposure.
• Own and evolve vendor legal governance, advising on contract status, liability, and risk mitigation.
• Partner with Security, Engineering, Product, Compliance, and HR to ensure legal alignment on platform security and data protection.
• Lead legal strategy for global intellectual property protection, enforcement, and commercialisation.
• Design, implement, and scale legal processes and contract management frameworks to improve operational efficiency.
• Advise on data protection and privacy obligations (including GDPR and global frameworks).
• Identify, assess, monitor, manage, and report on legal and compliance risks associated with company products and operations.
• Develop and maintain policies, playbooks, and training to strengthen legal, IP, security, and data governance.
• Support strategic initiatives, regulatory readiness, and special projects.

Requirements

• 5-8 years of PQE with strong experience in commercial technology, intellectual property, data protection, and vendor contracting.
• Proven experience supporting a global technology, fintech, or SaaS business; exposure to regulated environments is advantageous.
• Deep expertise in negotiating complex commercial, technology, SaaS, cloud, data processing, and vendor agreements.
• Demonstrated knowledge of intellectual property strategy and protection, including software, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, and licensing.
• Solid understanding of data protection, privacy, and cybersecurity frameworks (including GDPR), and experience advising on data risk.
• High level of independence, sound judgement, and ownership, with the ability to lead matters end-to-end.
• Excellent stakeholder management, executive communication, and influencing skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-growth, and product-driven environment.

Nice to have

• Experience in finance or trading domain.
• Familiarity with hirify.global as a product.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours and a hybrid work format.
• Well-equipped offices for focused and collaborative work.
• A global, distributed team of 500+ professionals.
• Learning, mentorship, and long-term career growth.
• Relocation support and private health insurance.
• Performance-based bonuses.
• hirify.global Premium access.
• Regular team events and company-wide meetups.