Legal Associate (Contract Operations)

Company: Afterpay
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: November 22, 2021

Job Description:

Join a movement in which everyone can win. We started a movement in which everyone can win - shoppers, retailers, society and every person on our team. To play fair, trust people and reward them for doing the right thing. We are obsessed with our product. We see and feel the impact of our work as more and more people gain financial freedom and retailers grow across the globe.

Afterpay is offered by more than 55,000 of the world's best retailers and has more than 10 million active customers globally. In the U.S. more than 5 million customers use Afterpay and is offered by more than 15,000 of the top fashion and beauty retailers across the country - including Anthropologie, Forever 21, DSW, GAP Inc, Finish Line, Levi's, Lululemon, Ray-Ban and many others. Our U.S. headquarters are located at the heart of the retail and business district in San Francisco, California.

Afterpay is on a mission to power an economy in which everyone wins.

The Opportunity

As a Legal Associate, you will work on a collaborative team in a fast-paced, high volume environment. We are looking for someone to make an immediate impact and be driven to help align internal and external stakeholders on business needs.

We are much more than our job descriptions - we are our energy, our ideas, our everyday drive. Here's where you will begin...

- Review, draft, and manage commercial agreements and related documentation, and assist lawyers with contract drafting, managing templates, and project managing contract issuances.

- Provide support to sales stakeholders by putting deal terms together in the contract.

- Take initiative by reaching out to business teams to understand deal terms, deal structure, and flesh out non-standard commercial and legal terms.

- Respond to legal requests from business teams by summarizing and communicating legal concepts and procedures.

- Support legal team in streamlining and scaling the team's processes and procedures.

- Manage and maintain internal trackers, training materials, templates, and other documentation.

- Organize and manage legal team institutional knowledge through creation of centralized knowledge management repository by standardizing processes, policies, and templates.

- Collect, document, and analyze relevant data to improve legal operations

- Manage and oversee the review and negotiation of NDAs Assist with or lead legal operational projects internally and externally.

Who are you?

Like us, you'll be obsessed with our product. You'll get a kick out of seeing and feeling the impact of your work as more and more people gain financial freedom and retailers grow across the globe.

You will have...

- Experience working as a contracts manager, paralegal, or legal assistant

- Experience working with agreements, including drafting and preparing simple amendments to standard templates

- Ability to work with a wide range of contract types including service agreements, amendments, addendums, schedules and statements of work.

- Experience supporting a legal team in a fast-paced and high volume environment

- Experience with project management, building process design, and analytics and metrics

- Experience with legal software solutions (e.g., contract lifecycle management, workflow automation, etc.)

- Prioritizing and managing numerous responsibilities concurrently

- Detail oriented & strong interpersonal and organizational skills

- Bachelor's Degree preferred or equivalent practical experience

- Previous tech industry and Salesforce experience a plus

We play fair and reward you for doing the right thing. We pride ourselves on fairness and offer equitable and competitive compensation. You will receive medical, vision and dental insurance - 100% covered. Once we are back in the office you will enjoy working from our beautiful office space in the US and feel trusted to work flexibly, remaining connected to smart people in all our locations. We are proud to support working parents of all genders in every country with a market-leading, equitable parental leave program including access to paid leave.

When you're built from the ground up, there's always room for growth. To challenge each other and shape a legacy built on real purpose, talent, and grit.

How to Apply: We don't know what the future holds. That's the exciting part; we show up and make it happen. If you're brave, if you're committed to doing the right thing and excited by this opportunity, click apply now!

Afterpay is continuing to hire for all open roles with all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19. All new team members, in addition to current staff, will temporarily work from home until it is safe to return to our offices

Keywords: Afterpay, San Francisco , Legal Associate (Contract Operations), Legal , San Francisco, California