Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Virtual Incentives is a digital incentives and payments technology company helping businesses deliver rewards, incentives, and payouts globally. The Legal Associate will support commercial contracting, compliance, regulatory, corporate, privacy, intellectual property, payments, and legal operations matters while developing scalable legal processes for the growing fintech business.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, vendor agreements, partner agreements, NDAs, DPAs, and other customer contracts
- Support the CLO on more complex or higher-risk agreements
- Partner with Sales, Client Success, Finance, Product, and Operations to move agreements forward efficiently
- Identify recurring contracting issues and develop templates, playbooks, fallback language, and processes
- Increase self-service and automation in routine contracting while maintaining appropriate legal controls
- Maintain and improve contract management processes and documentation
- Support the maintenance and improvement of VI’s legal and compliance programs
- Assist with policy development, risk assessments, monitoring, documentation, training, and compliance processes
- Research federal and state laws and regulations affecting payments, prepaid products, rewards, gift cards, money movement, consumer protection, privacy, and related areas
- Develop a working understanding of unclaimed property laws and requirements, including their application to gift cards, incentives, rewards, and other applicable products
- Assist with unclaimed property research, compliance activities, reporting, and related operational processes
- Provide legal review of new products, product enhancements, customer use cases, and business initiatives
- Work cross-functionally to identify legal and regulatory considerations early
- Monitor relevant legal, regulatory, card-network, and industry developments
- Assist with regulatory, banking partner, processor, network, and third-party diligence requests
- Help translate legal and regulatory requirements into practical, scalable business processes
- Support corporate governance, entity management, board materials, corporate records, and other corporate matters
- Support intellectual property, privacy, data protection, and information security matters
- Assist with employment-related legal matters in partnership with People/HR and the CLO
- Support litigation, disputes, claims, and other legal matters, including coordination with outside counsel
- Conduct legal research and prepare concise analyses, memoranda, and recommendations
- Create and maintain scalable legal processes, templates, checklists, playbooks, and self-service resources
- Maintain highly organized legal files, matter documentation, compliance records, and other legal information
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive work, simplify processes, and increase self-service
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, Technology, and business teams to implement tools and workflows that improve visibility, consistency, speed, and efficiency
- Continuously ask: “Is there a better, faster, or more scalable way to do this?”
Skills
- Experience: 3–5 years
- 3–5 years of experience
- • J.D. from an accredited law school
- • Admission to at least one U.S. state bar in good standing
- • 3–5 years of legal experience , ideally including meaningful commercial contracting and/or in-house experience
- • Experience drafting and reviewing commercial contracts
- • Strong legal research, writing, analytical, and communication skills
- • Excellent organizational skills and strong follow-through
- • Ability to manage multiple matters, deadlines, and priorities with accuracy
- • Strong judgment and ability to distinguish what can be handled independently from what should be escalated
- • Comfortable working directly with non-legal stakeholders and translating legal concepts into practical business guidance
- • Trustworthiness and discretion when handling confidential and commercially sensitive information
- • Ability to work independently in a remote environment while remaining highly collaborative
- This is a fully remote U.S. position . Candidates should be able to work primarily during East Coast business hours, approximately 9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. ET
- Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States
- • Fintech, payments, financial services, or technology
- • Prepaid cards, gift cards, incentives, rewards, or money movement
- • Payments processing or payment networks
- • Financial services regulatory matters
- • Privacy and data protection
- • SaaS or technology contracting
- • Unclaimed property laws and compliance
- • Compliance program support
- • Commercial transactions or corporate governance
- • Working with banks, processors, card networks, or financial services partners
Benefits
- This position is also eligible for an annual performance-based bonus.
- Benefits.
- Fully remote U.S. position.
- Work directly with experienced legal leadership and gain broad in-house experience.
- Develop expertise in a rapidly evolving payments environment.
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