Legal Counsel

Taptap Send
London
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 4-7 yearsSkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Collaboration","Attention to detail"]

Hands-on legal role leading drafting, review, and negotiation of commercial agreements; builds and runs a contract playbook; deploys AI-powered contract workflows; advises on major commercial decisions; manages external counsel and partners cross-functionally to enable growth in a fast‑paced fintech environment.

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Taptap Send
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4 months ago

Legal Counsel

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Job Summary

Hands-on legal role leading drafting, review, and negotiation of commercial agreements; builds and runs a contract playbook; deploys AI-powered contract workflows; advises on major commercial decisions; manages external counsel and partners cross-functionally to enable growth in a fast‑paced fintech environment.
Location: London
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead drafting, review, and negotiation of commercial agreements end-to-end, applying a risk-balanced approach that supports growth at startup speed.
  • •Build, maintain, and continuously improve a contract playbook with standard language, fallbacks, escalation triggers, and approved terms across common deal types.
  • •Deploy AI-assisted contract workflows and measure quality against human review to improve efficiency.
  • •Advise the business on high-impact commercial decisions, including major partnerships, market expansion, and new products.
  • •Manage external counsel effectively, ensuring quality, turnaround, and cost proportionality, while partnering with product, finance, operations, and leadership to enable commercial growth.

Key Requirements

  • •4-7 years of in-house, startup, fintech, or comparable private practice FinTech/payments experience; proven track record in a high-volume commercial contracting function
  • •Comfort with metrics (cycle time, deviation rate, escalation rate) and using data to drive process changes
  • •Excellent at managing external counsel globally, balancing quality with cost
  • •Exceptional communicator who can distill complex legal and commercial issues into clear guidance for non-lawyers
  • •Highly organized, autonomous, and able to manage multiple high-stakes deliverables in parallel
Experience:4-7 yearsFintechPayments
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingCollaborationAttention to detail
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AIContract management

Company Brief

Taptap Send
Taptap Send is a digital remittance platform that enables fast, low-cost international money transfers to underserved corridors using mobile wallets and bank payouts, focused on improving financial access for migrants and their families.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2018
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