Contracts Manager / Counsel

Summary

The Contracts Manager/Counsel oversees all contracting aspects of our business. You will safeguard our reputation by guaranteeing that the company strictly follows legal guidelines, and give legal advice to management about all relevant issues.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review and solidify agreements, contracts and other legal documents to ensure the company’s full legal rights
• Communicate and negotiate with internal stakeholders and external parties (regulators, external counsel, public authority etc.) alike, creating relations of trust
• Deal with complex matters with multiple stakeholders and forces
• Provide clarification on legal language or specifications to everyone in the organization
• Organization skills handling updating online terms and conditions, contract templates, handling contact filing and management
• Give accurate and timely advice on a variety of contract topics 
• Research and evaluate different risk factors regarding business decisions and operations
• Apply effective risk management techniques and offer proactive advice on possible contractual issues
• Conduct your work with integrity and responsibility
• Working knowledge of data privacy and issues surrounding technology agreements
• If hired into Contracts Counsel role, it is desirable that you have an interest in expanding into other legal functional areas as well.

Requirements and skills

• Proven experience as 
• Legal Counsel with 1-2 years of experience
• Contracts Manager with 3-5 years experience
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of contracting including but not limited to contract management, negotiation, drafting and interpretation
• High degree of professional ethics and integrity
• Sound judgment and ability to analyze situations and information
• Outstanding communication skills
• Minimum Education
• Bachelors degree for Contracts Manager
• J.D. degree for Contracts Counsel
• If hired into Contracts Counsel, must demonstrate current licensure.

We know that no one candidate is likely to fit each part of this job description right away, and that’s ok! If you have good overlap with the above list already–and the ability and desire to catch up quickly, on-your-feet during your first few weeks and months–we encourage you to apply. 

About Sezzle:

Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company whose long-standing mission is to financially empower the next generation. Only one in three millennials own a credit card, and the vast majority of millennials possess a subprime credit score or no score at all. To address these problems, Sezzle has built a payment platform that increases purchasing power for consumers by offering interest-free installment plans at online stores. This increase in purchasing power for consumers leads to increased sales and basket sizes for the numerous eCommerce merchants that currently work with Sezzle.

As the first and only B-Corp in the payments space, Sezzle’s goal is to help everyone pursue financial freedom, and to invest in social good and ethical initiatives that shape a better world. 

At Sezzle, we’re committed to putting purpose alongside profitability. We work hard to maintain rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency to build a better world. The employees at Sezzle lean into significant societal and cultural shifts, ensuring internal and external focus on positive impacts that benefit our community.

About You: 

• A+ character. We are team-first here at Sezzle. 
• A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build. 
• An excellent communicator. 
• Ownership. You aren’t afraid to take on new responsibilities and you act like an owner in everything you do.
• A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things. 
• Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others. 

Perks & Benefits: 

• Competitive salary and RSUs
• Generous paid time off, sick time and volunteer hours 
• Life, STD/LTD, medical, dental and vision insurance 
• Highly discounted LifeTime gym membership
• Work From Home stipend 
• 401k with match
• Collaborative fun workspace
• The opportunity to join a high profile Minneapolis startup alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals 

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome? 

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire. 

Sezzle provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran or military status, status regarding public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.