As Legal Counsel, you will be a member of the Paddle Legal and Compliance team, reporting directly to Paddle’s Senior Legal Counsel. The Paddle legal team is well-respected and integrated into Paddle’s business. As a result, this role will require you to collaborate with other teams across the business, and advise cross-functionally, always with a view to empowering the business to achieve its goals while taking a long-term strategic view.

You will support the Senior Legal Counsel in their duties and advise and partner with every team from across the business on a wide range of matters, including the following: You are highly independent and will lead the negotiation of bespoke customer agreements, third‑party supplier contracts, and other commercial agreements. You will maintain and improve contract templates and checklists, work with the commercial team to optimise the contracting process and promote automation and self‑service and collaborate. You will own the contract lifecycle management strategy and collaborate with other teams across Paddle to map key contractual obligations into business processes and controls.

Regulatory advice: You will lead on the identification, interpretation and analysis of evolving regulations across the consumer, financial services, digital services, AI and fintech sectors relevant to Paddle’s global MoR business model. You will collaborate with the Compliance function to counsel on regulatory issues and legal requirements across various projects, as well as develop and implement policies and procedures relevant to Paddle’s operations and the MoR business mode.

Corporate: You will manage regulatory filings and registration requirements across the various Paddle entities.

Data protection: You will assist the Data Protection Officer in implementing the global data protection programme,



providing data protection advice and ensuring both the documentation and proper controls are in place and effectively monitored. You will support colleagues in resolving legal or pre‑litigation disputes by applying your legal skills and thorough understanding of contractual commitments with a view towards a favourable resolution and de‑escalation. You are a mid‑level legal counsel with around 4 years of legal experience, about 2 years of which were as an in‑house lawyer at a regulated high‑growth tech scale‑up preferably in consumer, FinTech, SaaS or related sectors.

You have worked extensively with consumer protection, content, financial services, AI, technology, and data regulations. You are preferably qualified in the UK, US or Canada or otherwise qualified in another common law or European jurisdiction. You are smart, curious, keen to learn and have a proven ability to quickly understand new and complex legal concepts, and apply them with a commercial, practical and creative mindset to Paddle’s business.

At Paddle, we’re committed to removing invisible barriers, both for our customers and within our own teams. We’re committed to building a diverse team where everyone feels safe to be their authentic self.

We offer a full suite of advantages, including attractive salaries, stock options, retirement plans, private healthcare and wellbeing initiatives. We are a ‘digital‑first’ company, which means you can work remotely, from one of our stylish hubs, or even a bit of both!

We offer all team members unlimited holidays and 4 months paid family leave regardless of gender. We invest in learning and will help you with your personal development via constant exposure to new challenges, an annual learning fund, and regular internal and external training. Mid‑Senior level Full‑time Legal Software Development #

📌 Medical-Legal Consultant (Toronto)
🏢 Paddle
📍 Toronto