Commercial Counsel, Contract Infrastructure

About the role

Build the commercial legal infrastructure that lets finmid contract at the speed its product ships. You'll be the main legal point of contact for our commercial and product teams, the operator behind every platform, borrower, and supplier contract, and the architect of the systems that make this work repeatable.

What you'll do

• Own finmid's contract stack end-to-end across platform-facing, borrower-facing, and supplier-facing agreements. Negotiate independently with counterparties once you've internalised our positions, redline against playbook, and bring back the genuinely hard calls for collective decision.
• Sit alongside product leads as new features take shape. Translate roadmap into legal frameworks: term sheets, customer-facing T&Cs, partner schedules, and the contractual scaffolding that lets a feature ship without rewriting the agreement every time a parameter changes.
• Build the operating system for commercial legal at finmid. That means a redline review workflow that runs on AI assistance from first pass to negotiation, a clause library and playbook that update themselves as our positions evolve, and version control that nobody has to babysit.
• Run the negotiation of third-party supplier agreements, from cloud and data providers through to outsourced services. Hold the line on liability, IP, data, and exit terms.
• Make sure our commercial paper does the work our regulators expect of it. That includes DORA-grade resilience and ICT third-party requirements, GDPR and sub-processor architecture, outsourcing rules under EU and national supervisory regimes, and vendor risk standards that survive audit.
• Choose and integrate the AI tooling stack. Run real experiments, switch off what doesn't work, and integrate what does into daily practice.

What you'll need

• Graduate of a top-tier EU, UK, or US law school, qualified or qualifying in a relevant jurisdiction.
• At least one year of experience in Big Law or in-house at a technology company, fintech, SaaS business, or financial institution.
• Direct exposure to commercial contract drafting and negotiation. You should be able to walk into a redline conversation and hold your ground on the substance.
• You think in systems. When you see a recurring contract problem, your instinct is to design a workflow that prevents it rather than to draft around it case by case.
• You think algorithmically and can decompose a contracting process into decision trees, branching logic, and checkpoints.
• You treat contracts as product. You understand that a well-designed agreement is a reusable component, and that the difference between a function handling 50 deals a quarter and one handling 500 is almost entirely a question of process design.

Nice to have

• Experience working on finance, regulated product, or any setting where commercial contracting has had to coexist with supervisory expectation.
• Practically curious about AI tooling and willing to get hands-on.

What they offer

• Work closely with the General Counsel, Head of Commercial, and product leads across Europe with significant autonomy.
• A deeply cross-functional role embedded with the people building, selling, and integrating the product.