Corporate Legal Counsel

NMI is looking for a dynamic and motivated Corporate Counsel to join our legal team! This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading Fintech company, advising on a wide range of commercial agreements and corporate issues within a fast-growing and supportive environment. As Corporate Counsel you will work across a diverse scope of legal matters — from drafting and negotiating agreements that support our UK and US-based sales teams, to handling data protection requests and compliance matters. You will play an integral role providing business-minded legal advice to teammates across NMI by negotiating vendor agreements, advising on contracting models, product design, compliance, corporate governance, and other legal issues. You will also help maintain and develop the business's template agreements, contract review guidebooks, and respond to NMI's evolving legal needs. This is a remote role reporting to the Associate General Counsel.

Key Responsibilities:

• Draft and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements to support NMI's UK and US-based sales teams, including customer proposals and NDAs.
• Provide practical, business-oriented legal and commercial contract advice directly to colleagues at all levels of the organisation.
• Support data protection requests and assist in handling and managing various data compliance matters across the business.
• Negotiate vendor agreements and advise on contracting models, product design, compliance, corporate governance, and other legal issues.
• Maintain and develop the business's template agreements, contract review guidebooks, and other legal resources to meet NMI's evolving needs.
• Identify opportunities to create and improve upon legal processes to drive efficiencies across the team.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• 2+ years PQE, whether in private practice or in-house.
• Qualified solicitor or barrister in England and Wales, with a current practising certificate.
• Ability to provide practical, business-oriented legal and commercial contract advice directly to colleagues at all levels.
• Creative and strategic thinker who can create and improve upon processes to drive efficiencies.
• Experience with, or willingness to, work on corporate and commercial matters in both the UK and the US.
• Quick learner who is comfortable navigating new and unfamiliar matters.
• Thrives while working in a fast-paced environment.
• Operates independently and can act decisively.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in-house at a fast-growing technology company or advising FinTechs at a law firm.
• Strong interest in and awareness of the payment industry sector, and SaaS contracting models.
• Payment industry or account-to-account payment experience is a plus (but not required).
• Privacy expertise, including familiarity with the GDPR.
• CIPP/E or CIPP/M certification is a plus (but not required).

As well as being a part of something exciting every day, you will also receive the following benefits:

• Annual bonus scheme dependent on individual and company performance.
• Annual salary of £65,000—£95,000 GBP.
• 25 days holiday each year (+ bank holidays + 1 day after each year of service with up to a max. of 30 days).
• Workplace pension scheme.
• Private medical insurance (upon 30 days of employment).
• 7 hours per day, 35 hours per week.
• A remote first culture.
• Great work-life balance with our Flexi-time policy.
• Family Friendly policies (Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay and Shared Parental Leave).
• A chance to develop with an allocated company training budget.
• Bike2Work Scheme.
• Lifeworks, an Employee Assistance Programme which offers wellbeing, family and financial support services.
• A strong commitment to employee wellbeing including mental health first aiders.
• Employee referral scheme with generous financial reward.
• Bonusly colleague reward scheme.

NMI is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation or sexual identity, genetic information, citizen status, disability, military service, service member, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.