Paralegal, Checkout.com
Commercial Team
3 days a week in office
Payment services to power performance
Be an early applicant
Payment services to power performance
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses thrive in the digital economy.
Role
Who you are
- Paralegal certificate and/or Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
- 2 years+ prior in-house experience as a legal professional (e.g. paralegal, legal assistant, contract manager), working in private practice or in-house
- Experience working internationally (prior experience in a high-growth Fintech, Technology company or another fast-paced, dynamic environment would be a plus)
- Demonstrated experience of using enterprise AI tools to support provision of legal advice and increased efficiency
- Excellent time management skills and the ability to handle a high workload
- Ability to work autonomously and independently with minimal supervision
- High level of written and interpersonal communication skills
- Excellent level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Be open-minded and willing to accept new challenges
- Be a systemic thinker with proven abilities for process improvement and simplification
- Experience or interest in Legal Operations
What the job involves
- Checkout.com is seeking a dedicated Commercial Paralegal to join our Legal Team to support its rapid business growth
- You’ll be part of our global Commercial Legal team, a dynamic and innovative team of commercial lawyers with deep payments and technology expertise
- You will partner with stakeholders across the business on a broad range of commercial matters globally
- Contract Negotiation - negotiating commercial agreements (merchant, supplier and partner) and amendments/accessions, defending Checkout’s playbook positions and collaborating with our team of expert Legal Counsels to accommodate deviations
- Commercial Advisory: providing creative and commercially-focussed advisory support to stakeholders across Checkout’s range of commercial matters globally (e.g. Sales, Account Management, Financial Partnerships, Procurement)
- Strategic Projects: contributing to Checkout’s strategic expansion projects, building new products and advancing into new territories
- Use of Legal Technology: Adopt and utilise our rapidly developing Legal AI stack (Ironclad, Legora, Glean, Gemini) to support both lawyers and the business team with agent-enabled legal support
- Knowledge Management and Legal Optimisation: Lead on projects to automate, improve and manage team knowledge, playbooks and external legal content. Develop and improve processes/training to enable Legal and business teams to move faster. Utilise Jira/Confluence for efficient team work allocation
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The payments industry has exploded in the last decade as eCommerce continues to grow as the use of cash falls. Checkout.com is building the go-to platform for all things related to payments, such as accepting transactions, processing them and detecting fraud. Its secured a steady stream of funding from top investors like Tiger Global Management, and is the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Patreon, Dashlane, Udacity, Wise, Sony Electronics, and Klarna.
It focuses on large merchants and try to make its product as customisable as possible, so that companies integrate Checkout.com as an infrastructure partner in their product. This increases the stickiness of the product and creates many opportunities for the company to generate revenue.
Checkout.com has high quality proprietary technology (its platform has been designed from the outset so it can easily deliver incremental services as it expands its offering) and claim to offer the most comprehensive cross-border payment solution for digital commerce.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
People of all backgrounds are welcomed
"DEIB is where Checkout.com takes it to the next level. This company is excellent at building a sense of belonging and celebrating people from all..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$1bn
SERIES D
Jan 2021
$450m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.8bn
Company values
- Aspire: With big dreams and a long-term focus, we embrace ambition, driving our Aspire value
- Excel: By constantly pushing ourselves and each other to do our best work, we embody the spirit of Excel
- Unite: We come together as one team, rallying to make wins happen, forming the foundation of our Unite value
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Guillaume Pousaz
(Founder & CEO)Previously founded NetMerchant, which sold European currencies to US merchants. Background in mathematical engineering.
People progressing
First joined as a Software Engineer, was promoted to Senior Software Engineer after 1.5 years and was then promoted to Engineering Lead 6 months later. Ignas is now a Senior Engineering Manager.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Checkout.com
- Our IT Infrastructure Engineer, Sheryl Lingachetti, spoke to Zoë Schulz from myGwork - LGBTQ+ professionals & allies about trans rights in Mauritius, allyship and the support she has found in her workplace community 🏳️⚧️👇 https://www.attitude.co.uk/life/business/it-engineer-sheryl-on-coming-out-at-work-support-improves-productivity-for-everyone-442696/
- CTRL-ALT-CONNECT is Tech's latest community 🔥 We've partnered with our friends at Wise to create an inclusive community for people in tech to connect over conversation, networking and drinks. Last week we hosted our first panel discussion in our London office, which centred on the topic of Growth. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/checkout_tech-community-activity-7071841326060720129-qDOt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
- Our Pride Community provides a safe and welcoming space for our LGBTQIA+ colleagues and allies to connect, learn, and advocate for change. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/checkout_lifeatcheckout-activity-7074738991102611457-u7v5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
- Our Pride Community spoke with Adel Naamneh, VP of Solutions Engineering to learn about their experiences of being a member of LGBTQIA+ community and the importance of having corporate responsibility on hiring a diverse work force: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0e9WUmNdVk&t=561s
- Read an interview hosted by The Black Young Professionals Network with the leaders of our Black Community: https://byp-network.com/news/314821
- Read more about the 'FinTech for all' charter, of which we were a founding signatory. The charter aims to create a speak up culture across FinTech, eliminating harassment and bullying: https://fintech.inchorus.org/
- Read this inspiring interview hosted by SheCanCode and one of our female QA Engineers: https://shecancode.io/blog/victoria-santiago-qa-engineer
- Our Principal Product Manager Yasmin, also sat down with SheCanCode on two inspiring articles: https://shecancode.io/blog/meet-yasmin-christie-checkout-principal-product-manager-an-inspirational-tech-career-journey and https://shecancode.io/blog/14-pieces-of-practical-product-management-guidance-from-checkout-part-2
- Plus, our Senior Engineering Manager Marina tells her story with SheCanCode: https://www.shecancode.io/blog/how-to-get-the-best-from-your-team-and-your-own-career-from-one-of-checkouts-engineering-leads
- And finally, our Graduates share some insights too: https://www.shecancode.io/blog/grad-programme-insider-tips-from-checkout
- Find out more information at our Diversity and Inclusion webpage: https://www.checkout.com/diversity-and-inclusion
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