Legal Counsel

Description

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

As part of our continued growth, we’re expanding our in-house Legal Team and are now looking for another Legal Counsel to join us. 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 matters, as well as other general corporate, labor and privacy law advice. 

You will: 

• Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of legal contracts with clients, partners, vendors, and third parties (services agreements, NDAs, DPAs, SaaS license agreements). 
• Assist with labor law and privacy issues. 
• Interact and work with the company's departments (sales, product, marketing, finance, payments) on diverse legal issues. 
• Perform and provide other general corporate law advice as needed. 
• Leverage AI-powered tools to support contract review, clause analysis, risk identification, and drafting efficiency while ensuring full legal accuracy and compliance. 
• Use AI-assisted workflows to improve the speed and consistency of reviewing commercial agreements, privacy documentation, and corporate legal materials. 
• Apply AI tools to assist in legal research, summarization of complex legal materials, and preparation of first-draft legal documents, while maintaining full professional legal judgment and oversight. 

Requirements

• EU-qualified attorney/lawyer with 3–5 years of experience in a High-Tech/Commercial department within a law firm or in-house legal team. 
• Fluent English (written and oral). 
• Attention to detail. 
• Strong organizational and time-management skills. 
• Self-motivated and persistent. 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. 
• Hands on experience to effectively leverage AI tools to enhance legal drafting, contract review, risk analysis, and legal workflow efficiency. 
• Practical experience using AI-assisted tools to support commercial legal work while maintaining high standards of accuracy, confidentiality, and professional judgment.