Senior Commercial Counsel - APAC
Singapore
Legal & Regulatory – Legal Counsel /
Full-time /
Hybrid
Nium, the Leader in Real-Time Global Payments
At Nium, we operate at the intersection of an increasingly interconnected world, where the traditional finance industry has been disrupted, and on-demand is in demand. Our payments infrastructure is leading a transformation in payments, enabling anyone, anywhere to make and receive payments instantly, regardless of the location or currency. We currently support:
-Regulatory Licenses and Authorizations in 40+ Countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance
-190+ Pay Out Markets – 100+ in real time
-35+ Pay In Markets
-30+ Card Issuance Markets
-100+ Supported Currencies
Today, Nium is the leader in real-time global payments and the fastest way to send money across borders. We are co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with regional offices in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lithuania, London, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, and UAE.
Where do you come into the picture?
Nium’s Global Legal Team works at the intersection of financial technology and regulatory frameworks. Our work helps Nium build delightful and innovative products, understand and manage risks, and creatively navigate complexity and challenges, both external and internal.
We’re looking for a fast-learning and dynamic Senior Commercial Counsel, based out of our Singapore office, to help accelerate Nium’s rapid growth by structuring and negotiating complex commercial agreements with our largest customers and partners, and scaling our commercial legal infrastructure.
As our Senior Commercial Counsel in APAC, you’ll work with the sales and GTM teams in APAC and globally, product, finance, legal, compliance, and other teams. You’ll be leading on a range of high impact commercial matters including deals with our largest customers, financial partners, and vendors, as well as building scalable commercial legal infrastructure such as form agreements, online terms, and playbooks.
What will a day @ Nium look like?
- You’ll work with Nium sales and GTM teams to structure and negotiate complex agreements for the provision of cutting edge payments solutions to customers across industry verticals including banking and fintech, global payroll, expense and AR/AP management, travel, online marketplaces, and others.
- You’ll partner with sales, product, engineering, compliance, and other legal team members to build commercial legal infrastructure to deliver our products and services to our customers efficiently and at scale, including form agreements, online terms, and playbooks.
- You’ll help to improve how Nium engages with its customers by creating great legal experiences for them and continuing to iterate and improve on legal aspects of Nium’s products and services.
- You’ll support Nium’s product and infrastructure development by working with our procurement, product, and other teams in negotiating a range of business-critical vendor agreements.
- You’ll actively collaborate with a wide variety of other teams at Nium, including marketing, finance, HR, compliance, and others on a range of issues to enable Nium’s continued global expansion.
- You’ll proactively identify other areas at Nium where you can add value and determine how to execute on those priorities.
Which skills and experiences will make you successful?
- You will have 6+ years of experience as a qualified lawyer in an in-house legal team, top law firm, and/or government agency.
- You have deep expertise in commercial contracts (and building related commercial legal infrastructure) developed working at, or with, high growth companies.
- You’re highly collaborative, inquisitive, and solutions-oriented.
- You’re biased towards action and impact, and no task is too big or too small for you; you can roll up your sleeves and get things done.
- You have exceptional verbal and interpersonal communication skills, can build strong relationships with business colleagues, and can simplify legal concepts and communicate them in easy-to-understand language.
- You are curious, passionate about your work and innovative technology, and enjoy a fast-paced working environment.
- You’re humble and low ego, have a strong desire to grow and learn, and have a deep commitment to your teammates.
What we offer at Nium
We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, uncapped sales commissions and robust performance reviews, we ensure that all employees are rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.
We Care for Our Employees: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. In addition to many other benefits, we offer medical coverage, 24/7 employee assistance program, generous time off policies, and a year-end shut down. We also provide a hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).
We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, always want to learn more and upskill ourselves. As well as role-specific training, we also offer a global learning stipend.
We Constantly Innovate: Nium continues to be globally recognized for its constant innovations, growth, and employee-centric mindset since our inception:
We Celebrate Together: Work is also about having fun with your colleagues and forging deep relationships. We host company-wide social events onsite and virtually, provide team morale budget and bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!
We Thrive with Diversity: Across 33 nationalities and 18+ countries, our diverse and multicultural team embodies our commitment to a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.
What it’s like to be a Nium'er
At Nium we center our way of work around 3 core values globally:
#KeepItSimple: We cut through complexity, simplify at speed and operate with scale in mind.
#MakeItBetter: We build innovative solutions that make our customers' lives better.
#WinItTogether: We win in this competitive market by collaborating as one team.
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