Corporate Legal Counsel
NMI is looking for a dynamic and motivated Corporate Counsel to join our legal team! This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading Fintech company, advising on a wide range of commercial agreements and corporate issues within a fast-growing and supportive environment.
As Corporate Counsel you will work across a diverse scope of legal matters — from drafting and negotiating agreements that support our UK and US-based sales teams, to handling data protection requests and compliance matters. You will play an integral role providing business-minded legal advice to teammates across NMI by negotiating vendor agreements, advising on contracting models, product design, compliance, corporate governance, and other legal issues. You will also help maintain and develop the business's template agreements, contract review guidebooks, and respond to NMI 's evolving legal needs.
This is a remote role reporting to the Associate General Counsel.
About NMI
NMI , a global leader in payment technologies, allows software and sales professionals to deliver payment innovations to their clients without having to build payment expertise in house. NMI enables our partners with choice, and challenges the one-size-fits-all approach to payments. You've probably used NMI in the last 24 hours without even realizing it. We're the platform that powers success for innovative tech created by SMBs, entrepreneurs and fintech startups. We're creative problem solvers who help visionaries smash through boundaries and think beyond what's possible so they can think about what's next. But we're not just built for the tech savvy. We democratize the latest payments technology so that everyone can realize the benefits of easy payments across the full spectrum of commerce. Our mission is to use our expertise to enable more payments, in more ways and more places. We provide ISOs, Fintech Innovators and Technologists the freedom to focus on what they do best, liberating them from restricted payment solutions and giving them access to the latest payment technology now and in the future.
How We Work - Our Core Values
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Be a Good Person, It's Simple. We treat everyone fairly and with respect. We lead with kindness, humility and integrity. We take the time to understand each other and our customers. And we serve with care, because customers are never a transaction, and always our focus
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Align, Trust & Go. We debate openly, listen carefully and challenge thoughtfully. Once we decide, we move forward together - holding ourselves accountable to our commitments, and focusing on what matters most to our customers. That alignment creates momentum.
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Raise the Bar. Good enough isn't enough. We stay curious, measure everything, stay honest about progress and keep pushing ourselves to think creatively. We drive change, again and again. And leave things better than we found them. When we raise the bar, our customers feel it too.
Key Responsibilities:
- Draft and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements to support NMI 's UK and US-based sales teams, including customer proposals and NDAs.
- Provide practical, business-oriented legal and commercial contract advice directly to colleagues at all levels of the organisation.
- Support data protection requests and assist in handling and managing various data compliance matters across the business.
- Negotiate vendor agreements and advise on contracting models, product design, compliance, corporate governance, and other legal issues.
- Maintain and develop the business's template agreements, contract review guidebooks, and other legal resources to meet NMI 's evolving needs.
- Identify opportunities to create and improve upon legal processes to drive efficiencies across the team.
Essential Skills and Experience:
- 2+ years PQE, whether in private practice or in-house.
- Qualified solicitor or barrister in England and Wales, with a current practising certificate.
- Ability to provide practical, business-orien