Job Description

This is a high-impact commercial legal role supporting the Wise Platform business that powers international payments for banks, financial institutions and enterprise partners around the world. Enterprise partners range from large regulated banks to embedded-payments and technology providers.

Your mission is to enable, protect and empower Wise Platform, providing first-rate commercial legal advice while improving and applying processes, templates and ways of working that let Legal scale in a rapidly-growing, fast paced environment. You'll be a trusted partner to Business Development, Product, Pricing and Compliance, bringing structure and predictability to how deals are run and the judgement to move quickly where it matters most.

To achieve this, you'll be:

Part of the core team of lawyers owning all aspects of the contract lifecycle with bank partners, online platforms and enterprise customers;
Building and embedding a process as well establish clear guardrails and expectations for when and how Legal engages;
Applying a prioritisation framework to allocate legal resource appropriately;
Owning template and playbook management, including annual reviews and clear communication on template updates;
Driving effective communication and change management;
Drafting, reviewing and negotiating agreements across a wide range of legal matters and ad hoc issues, including financial regulation, payments, banking and partnerships;
Working closely with Product, Product Compliance and Pricing to ensure agreements reflect approved positions;
Identifying and implementing tooling and technology solutions that streamline workflows and increase scalability;
Understanding the real risks to the business and advising on the operational impact and practicalities of those risks; and
Mentoring and upskilling other members of the Legal team and the wider business, making life simple and easy.