Legal Counsel

About Payoneer

Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Commercial Legal Counsel, Gurugram, Haryana (Work from Office)

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Payoneer's mission is to empower businesses to go beyond – beyond borders, limits and expectations. In today's digital world, Payoneer enables any business of any size from anywhere to access new economic opportunities by making it possible to transact as easily globally as they do locally.

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If you’re the kind of person that loves to get stuff done, collaborate with colleagues all over the world and is interested in joining a fast-growing global company that is trusted by the world’s top digital brands and truly cares for its customers, join us at Payoneer!

We’re looking for a highly talented commercial lawyer to join our global Legal team. The Commercial Legal Counsel provides legal and commercial support for Payoneer’s variety of engagements with its global suppliers and business partners. The position is based in Gurugram, Haryana.

What You’ll Do

• Support and provide advice on global commercial transactions.

• Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts, including master service agreements, agreements for the purchase of goods and services, SaaS agreements, professional services agreements, consulting agreements, partnership agreements, software licenses, IT and hardware agreements.

• Partner closely and support Procurement and other business teams with commercial, business, legal and risk guidance, to align legal support with business goals.

• Collaborate with business, operations, finance, tech and other teams within Payoneer to achieve execution.

• Support dispute resolution and legal & business risk assessments.

• Develop scalable legal processes and support the continuous creation and improvement of standard form agreements and templates.

• Conduct legal training and enablement for internal stakeholders.

• Contribute to legal infrastructure for new product launches and market expansion.

• Assist with ad hoc projects and initiatives needed to support evolving business and legal priorities.

• Stay up to date with applicable laws, regulations and industry guidance that impact Payoneer’s commercial agreements.

What You’ll Bring

• Qualified lawyer with 3-5 years of meaningful relevant experience at global organizations or leading law firms.

• Law degree (LLB or JD) from a leading academic institution with active bar membership.

• Strong commercial/business orientation and outstanding interpersonal and negotiation skills, and ‘can-do’ attitude.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to draft and negotiate contracts.

• Excellent English professional language skills.

• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team environment, with flexibility to work across different time zones.

• Ability to effectively manage and prioritize a large number and variety of mission-critical projects and work quickly under deadlines, in a fast-paced environment.

• Knowledge of data protection regulations – an advantage.

• Experience in the financial services, payments, or global workforce solutions industry – an advantage.

A few words about us

In today's digital world, Payoneer's platform streamlines global commerce for millions of small businesses, marketplaces and enterprises from 200 countries and territories. Leveraging its robust technology, compliance, and banking infrastructure, Payoneer delivers a suite of services that includes cross-border payments, working capital, tax solutions, merchant services and risk management. Powering growth for entrepreneurs in emerging markets through to the world's leading digital brands like Airbnb, Amazon, Google and Upwork, Payoneer makes global commerce easy and secure.

Payoneer - one world, one platform, endless opportunity.

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The Payoneer Ways of Working

Act as our customer’s partner on the inside
Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further.

Do it. Own it.
Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do.

Continuously improve
Always striving for a higher standard than our last.

Build each other up
Helping each other grow, as professionals and people.

If this sounds like a business, a community, and a mission you want to be part of, apply today.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. Payoneer is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment no matter your race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please speak to the recruiter managing the role for any adjustments. Decisions about requests for reasonable accommodation are made on a case-by-case basis.