Senior Legal Counsel, Paddle
Regulatory
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Payments, tax, and subscriptions solution for SaaS
Job no longer available
Payments, tax, and subscriptions solution for SaaS
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
Stock options available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help SaaS companies navigate the revenue journey at every stage.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5 + years of legal experience as a practising solicitor
- You have in-house exposure within scaling Tech businesses preferably within the payments sector
- You have demonstrable learning agility and bags of common sense and are not afraid of picking up matters you have never dealt with before
- You’re excited by the prospect of owning your own projects, while also happy to help pitch in when the team needs you
- You will be driven, able to work independently and a pleasure to work with
- You are an excellent and persuasive communicator whose advice is actively sought out and heeded
- You are skilled at tailoring your legal advice to the recipient, whether they be senior management or a junior contributor
- You are commercially minded and able to deliver creative, helpful and practical solutions to a rapidly growing business under pressure and operating within ambiguity
What the job involves
- As Senior Legal Counsel you will report to our General Counsel and be a member of our Legal Team
- The Legal team is intrinsically integrated into Paddle’s business and you will be required to collaborate and advise cross functionally, empowering the business to achieve its goals
- The role itself will be extremely varied with a particular focus on global regulatory matters impacting Paddle’s operating model
- You will be delivering first-rate legal advice in a fast-paced dynamic environment, identifying risk and balancing common sense with legal expertise
- You will be an excellent generalist and not afraid of operating within ambiguity
- As Senior Legal Counsel, you will consider the longer-term impacts whilst also being able to react quickly to deliver level headed, creative and context appropriate solutions to ensure the best possible customer experience in the ever changing tech space
- The role will be based in the UK; however this role will be global in scope
- Support the General Counsel in her duties and advise and partner with every team from across the business on a wide range of matters
- Advise the business on legislation, regulations and rules impacting Paddle’s operating model as a Merchant, including, without limitation, the Card Network Rules, financial regulations, consumer legislation, AML and Sanctions
- Advise on global data privacy regulations and draft, negotiate, and advise on data protection agreements, terms of service, privacy policies, and other contracts and disclosures
- Risk-spot and proactively identify legal solutions that will eliminate or mitigate risk
- Work with the business to assess the legal implications of growth opportunities in different jurisdictions
- Support the People team with employment related matters
- Support with corporate and governance related matters
Our take
Software as a service (SaaS) is becoming the dominant way for new companies to sell their products. However, there are a number of interlinked tasks to build a great business. For example, setting up trials and licences, insights and analysis, payment gateways, taxes, and internationalisation.
Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure so that fast growth companies don't need to deal with this complicated puzzle. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, it acts as a Merchant of Record for customers, taking away the pain of payments fragmentation.
Now serving over 4,000 customers, and having entered the unicorn club in 2022, the company has clearly found its share of success. However, the assumption that pandemic-era growth could be sustained, coupled with runaway operational costs, has seen Paddle recently layoff a number of its staff. With this move, it hopes to control and reduce its spend, so as to face the effects of the economic downturn in stronger shape and sustain its future.
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41% female employees
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Autonomy
"Paddlers are shown a lot of trust to get the job done. I've never experienced micro-management and have always been free to decide how to advance a..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2022
$200m
SERIES D
Nov 2020
$68m
SERIES C
Total funding: $291.4m
Company benefits
- Share options
- Private healthcare and mental health support
- Flexible time off
- Generous learning and development budget
- 17 weeks of fully paid parental leave for both moms and dads
- Work up to 45 days a year from a different country
- Discount annual train ticket/cycle to work scheme
- Home workstation budget
Company values
- Exceptional Together
- Better than Yesterday
- Execute with Impact
Company HQ
London, UK
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Founders
Christian Owens
(Co-Founder & Executive Chairman)Founded Paddle after finishing school. A fellow of the Thiel Foundation, which gives $100,000 to young people to build businesses instead of going to university.
Harrison Rose
(Co-Founder)Founded Paddle at age 17, after finishing school, and has been both CSO and CCO at the company. Co-Founder and CEO of GoodFit.io.
People progressing
Joined as Event Manager and was promoted to Brand & Event Manager after 1 year. Bianca is now Head of Brand.
Diversity & Inclusion at Paddle
- We want to increase the opportunities for under-represented Paddlers - we are going to partner with third parties to widen our talent pools, and how we create opportunities internally for when new Padders join to give access to further careers and growth
- We’re already proud of the strides we’ve made around gender balance, especially at manager/leadership level and have a rich population of non British employees. Like most companies in our sector there is still much work to be done, but we’re ready and excited to bring about positive change
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