Legal Counsel, dLocal
Emerging markets payments platform
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Emerging markets payments platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable global merchants to connect seamlessly with billions of emerging market users.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified lawyer (EU, UK, or APAC) with 3–5 years of professional experience at a law firm and/or in-house within financial services, fintech, or tech-enabled businesses
- Strong experience drafting and negotiating cross‑border commercial contracts in fast‑paced environments
- Solid grounding in general commercial, contractual, and compliance issues; ability to translate legal risk into actionable business guidance
- Working familiarity with payments/financial services/fintech is desirable; comfort with online platform/e‑commerce contracting is advantageous
- Practical knowledge of GDPR/data protection in a contracting context (DPAs, data transfer, security annexes)
- Tech‑savvy: comfortable with CLM/e‑signature/CRM, collaboration suites, contract redlining platforms, and basic data/AI tools; able to learn new systems quickly
- Proven ability to proactively spot issues, design pragmatic remediations, and tailor advice to audience and risk profile
- Excellent communication skills; capable of crisp writing and structured, outcome‑oriented negotiation
- A motivated self‑starter who exercises sound judgement and thrives in international, cross‑functional teams across multiple time zones
- Fluency in English (written and spoken) is required; Spanish or another European language is a plus
What the job involves
- This is a hands-on, business‑facing role for a commercial legal counsel partnering closely with our commercial teams while supporting the wider business on a range of legal matters. The successful candidate will be a flexible self‑starter with a global outlook, strong stakeholder management, and a collaborative working style
- Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, amendments, vendor/procurement agreements, NDAs, DPAs, novations, referral/partnership agreements, terminations, guarantees, and ancillary schedules
- Act as a key point of contact for commercial deal work, providing clear risk‑based advice and pragmatic alternatives to accelerate safe, high‑quality outcomes
- Create, maintain, and continuously improve templates, clause libraries, playbooks, and negotiation guidance to drive consistency and speed
- Partner with Product, Commercial, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and InfoSec on go‑to‑market initiatives, ensuring contract terms reflect operational realities and regulatory requirements
- Lead on data and privacy contracting topics (e.g., DPAs, data transfer mechanisms, sub‑processor and security schedules) in coordination with Privacy and Security
- Embed regulatory considerations (e.g., payments/fintech frameworks, consumer protection) into commercial terms; coordinate with Compliance on AML/sanctions and other mandatory provisions
- Help design and iterate contracting processes and tooling (e.g., CLM, e‑signature), define SLAs/metrics, and champion automation and enablement for business partners
- Contribute to training and enablement for go‑to‑market teams, improving commercial readiness and contract hygiene across regions
Our take
It is clearly evident that there is a massive payments gap between developed countries and emerging economies, with consumers in many countries having little or no access to modern payment options. dLocal was established in Uruguay to address this gap, which it aims to close not only for its neighbouring countries but across the globe.
Through its unique "One dLocal" concept (one direct API, one platform, and one contract), global companies can accept payments, send pay-outs and settle funds globally without separately managing pay-in and pay-out processors. The company also supplies a defense suite and local issuing for virtual and physical pre-paid cards in Latin America, as well as tools for building payments infrastructure for platforms and marketplaces.
Since founding, the company has expanded across Uruguay, the USA, Israel, Brazil and Europe. The company has seen significant growth while remaining confident and committed to its original mission. A notable achievement is dLocal becoming a certified Payment Initiation Service Provider in Brazil, which means it can eliminate unnecessary steps for users in the region.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2021
$150m
LATE VC
Sep 2020
$200m
SERIES A
Total funding: $357m
Company HQ
Tres Cruces, Montevideo, Montevideo Department
Leadership
Sergio Fogel
(Co-Founder & CSO)Co-founded multiple companies, such as AstroPay, and is an Official Member of the Forbes Finance Council.
Pedro Arnt
(CEO)Member of the Board of Directors at Allegro who advises at several firms. Previously EVP and CFO at MercadoLibre.com.
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