Legal Counsel - Remote

Overview

Papaya Global is a rapidly growing, award-winning B2B tech unicorn with an ambitious mission to revolutionize the payroll & payments industry. With over $400M raised from multiple tier-one investors, our innovative technology provides a comprehensive solution for managing global workforces, encompassing everything from hiring and onboarding to managing and paying employees in over 160 countries.

We are looking for an in-house commercial lawyer to join our Legal Team.

Our ideal candidate is an experienced High-Tech/technology lawyer. As a commercial lawyer, you will be working on a wide variety of commercial contracts, including services agreements and vendor agreements, privacy issues and employment matters, as well as other general corporate law advice.

In Short

• Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of legal contracts with clients, partners, vendors, and third parties (services agreements, NDAs, DPAs, SaaS license agreements).
• Keep up to date and analyze global privacy regulations to ensure continued alignment of the company’s products and data processing to such regulations.
• Interact and work with the company's departments (sales, HR, product, marketing finance) on diverse legal issues.
• Perform and provide other general corporate law advice as needed. 

Requirements

• A licensed US attorney with 2-4 years' experience in a High-Tech/Commercial department of a law firm or in-house legal counsel.
• Proven legal experience in privacy & data protection regulations and Labor Law.
• Fluent English (written and oral).
• Attention to detail.
• Good organizational and time-management skills.
• Self-motivated and persistent.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Advantage: experience working for global companies.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
• Hybrid work model (based in New York or remote from Miami).