Senior Legal Counsel
Zip Co
Senior Legal Counsel
Senior Legal Counsel needed for Zip's AU Legal team, providing pragmatic legal advice on product development, commercial transactions, and regulatory matters in the fintech sector. Requires 7-10+ years of legal experience, strong expertise in Australian consumer credit and financial services regulation, and commercial contracting capability. Remote role with flexibility to work from Sydney or Melbourne office.
Senior Legal Counsel
Senior Legal Counsel needed for Zip's AU Legal team, providing pragmatic legal advice on product development, commercial transactions, and regulatory matters in the fintech sector. Requires 7-10+ years of legal experience, strong expertise in Australian consumer credit and financial services regulation, and commercial contracting capability. Remote role with flexibility to work from Sydney or Melbourne office.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with teams throughout the product development lifecycle, advising on product design, new features and launches and helping teams understand and address applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
- Provide practical advice across relevant Australian laws and regulations, including consumer credit, privacy and other regulatory frameworks relevant to Zip's products and operations.
- Build trusted relationships with Product and Commercial teams, developing a strong understanding of their objectives and helping structure commercially sound solutions that can be effectively implemented.
- Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial arrangements, including strategic partnerships, merchant arrangements, marketing agreements, promotional terms and service provider agreements.
- Help translate legal and regulatory requirements into practical considerations for product design and commercial arrangements, supporting ongoing compliance once solutions are operationalised.
- Develop a deep understanding of Zip's products, customers, commercial priorities and regulatory environment to provide advice that considers the bigger picture.
- Identify legal and regulatory risks early, communicate them clearly and constructively challenge where needed while helping stakeholders find practical paths forward.
- Partner with external law firms where specialist advice is required, ensuring external support is focused, effective and commercially valuable.
- Contribute your expertise to strategic initiatives across Zip, collaborating with colleagues across Legal, Compliance and the wider business to solve complex and interesting challenges.