Legal Counsel

We're looking for a sharp, commercially-minded lawyer ready to take real ownership across our legal function, not just execute on it. This is a hands-on role: you'll run a heavy contract flow across payout partners, banking partners, vendors, and customer/partnership agreements. You will contribute to and help build the playbook and tooling that make the function fast and consistent. This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role with meaningful scope to grow into broader leadership.,

• Lead drafting, review, and negotiation of Taptap's commercial agreements end-to-end, applying a risk-balanced approach that supports growth at startup speed.
• Build and run the contract playbook. Develop, maintain, and continuously improve Taptap's commercial contract playbook: standard positions, fallbacks, escalation triggers, and approved language across the deal types we see most.
• Deploy AI and legal tech in production. Build, evaluate, and operate AI-assisted contract workflows and measure their quality against human review.
• Advise the business on the deals that matter. Sit at the intersection of legal and business strategy on Taptap's most consequential commercial decisions: major partnerships, market expansion, new products.
• Manage external counsel effectively. Use outside counsel selectively, hold them to quality and turnaround, and keep spend proportional to risk.
• Partner cross-functionally. Build workflows with product, finance, operations, compliance, and leadership so legal is a proactive enabler on the commercial side of the business.
• Cover broader legal matters as needed. Step into other legal work where business priorities require it, keeping commercial objectives aligned with compliance and risk.
  
  Legally qualified (any jurisdiction) with 4-7 years of experience, including proven track record in-house, at a high-growth startup or fintech, or comparable private practice FinTech/payments experience
• Demonstrated track record in a high-volume commercial contracting function
• Comfort with metrics. You think about cycle time, deviation rate, and escalation rate and you use the numbers to drive process change.
• Excellent at managing external counsel globally, balancing quality with cost.
• Exceptional communicator who can distill complex legal and commercial issues into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyers.
• Strong problem-solver with the instinct to diagnose root causes and design pragmatic solutions.
• Highly organised and autonomous, able to run multiple high-stakes deliverables in parallel without dropping balls.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, energised by new challenges, and willing to step outside your lane to get things done.
• Fluent in English. French and/or Spanish a strong plus.
Also you are
• Outgoing - you love speaking to people and enjoy building meaningful relationships
• Execution Oriented - we have an 'impact first' philosophy and a lot to get done. You should be able to take an idea to implementation
• Mission Oriented - you are passionate about working for a net positive organisation / tech for good
• Organised - you have a system for how you approach your work that can keep you on track in a scrappy startup environment
• Driven - you thrive in a fast-paced, target oriented company
  
  We're building the world's leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets - empowering families, fueling local economies, and changing how millions access financial services.
Since our launch in 2019, we have transformed how money moves across borders with our operations spanning 6 out of 7 continents and covering both the busiest and most underserved (remittance) corridors. We tapped into a massive shift - from banks to phones - bringing digital finance to places where traditional systems never reached. The next stage of growth will fuel a network of services and products especially designed to make money more accessible to diaspora communities including local cards, and additional savings and payments features. We're growing fast, backed by world-class investors, and scaling a product that blends real world impact with cutting edge fintech innovation. Here's a little more:
• Founded by Harvard grads and 3-time founders who previously built Segovia (acquired) and GiveDirectly (>$300M revenue, fastest-growing NGO in the world)
• Backed by top investors including Spark Capital, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital, Unbound, Wamda, and more
• Built by global top performers from Bain, Google, McKinsey, Uber, Checkout, Bolt, and beyond - we move fast, stay humble, and care deeply about our mission
• Truly global team - 250+ people, 50+ nationalities, 50+ languages
• Guided by our values - ownership, impact, humility, and heart - in deed, not just word