Director of Legal Affairs

Papaya Global
NY, United States
Full-time

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 Director of Legal Affairs, U.S 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).
  • Act as a site manager for the US legal team.
  • 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.

Requirements :

  • A New York licensed attorney with 5+ 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
  • 4 days ago
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