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YouLend is the preferred embedded financing platform for many of the world’s leading providers in e-commerce, payments, and tech: eBay, Shopify, Mastercard, Mollie, Google, Just Eat Takeaway, and many more.

Our software platform and APIs enable our partners to extend their value proposition by offering flexible financing products in their desired branding to their merchant base without necessarily putting capital at risk.

With YouLend's data-backed credit risk assessment solutions, more merchants and SMEs than ever can receive fast, flexible and affordable funding.

We have offices in London, UK, and Atlanta, Georgia, and we operate across Europe and the United States. To find out more about how we create value for our partners and their customers, visit www.youlend.com or get in touch with a member of our team.

Finance

YouLend

Enabling e-commerce and payment platforms to support their merchants with fast, flexible embedded finance solutions

You need 3+ years in legal/compliance ops, Jira expertise, data-driven mindset, project management skills, and experience with legal tech tools. Strong collaboration, attention to detail, and problem-solving are key.

You will lead legal tech integration, optimize workflows, support contract management, train teams, create reports, and improve operational efficiency in legal and compliance processes.

Legal

London

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 About Us
 YouLend is the preferred global embedded financing platform for many of the world’s leading e-commerce sites, tech companies and payment services providers such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Mollie, Dojo, Paysafe, Just Eat Takeaway and Takepayments. Our software platform and APIs enable our partners to offer flexible financing products, in their desired branding, to their merchant base. With YouLend's AI-driven credit risk assessment solutions, more merchants and SMEs than ever can receive fast, flexible and affordable funding. We operate in 9+ geographies across the UK, EU and the US.
 We believe that the future of financial services will be delivered by customer-oriented tech companies that embed financing in their customer journeys, and we are building the solutions that will power that future.
 Why join YouLend?
 <ul>
 <ul>
 <li>Award-Winning Team: Our Legal team recently won "In-House Banking &amp; Financial Services Team of the Year" at The Lawyer Awards, showcasing our commitment to excellence and industry leadership</li>
 <li>Award-Winning Workplace: YouLend has been recognised as one of the "Best Places to Work 2024" by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace</li>
 <li>Award-Winning Fintech: YouLend has been recognised as a "Top 250 Fintech Worldwide" company by CNBC</li>
 </ul>
 </ul>
 The Role:
 We are looking for a highly organized and tech-savvy Legal &amp; Compliance Operations &amp; Transformation to join our growing legal and compliance team. This role will focus on optimizing and transforming our legal and compliance functions through technology, automation and process improvement. You will work closely with stakeholders across the business to ensure that our legal tech stack—including Jira and Juro—is integrated seamlessly into daily operations, driving efficiency and performance. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in legal and compliance operations, project management, and data-driven decision-making, along with a proven track record of implementing legal technology and automating workflows, while having a strong understanding of relevant department metrics and data analysis to support decision-making.
 
 Key Responsibilities:
 Legal Tech Implementation:
 <ul>
 <ul>
 <li>Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of existing and new legal tech tools to improve workflows, automate processes, and drive efficiency.</li>
 <li>Collaborate with IT, legal, and compliance teams to ensure the smooth integration of new and existing legal technologies, including Juro for contract management and Jira for service desk and work management. Assessing new technologies and provide ongoing support and optimization of legal tech tools, ensuring they are fully leveraged by the team.</li>
 </ul>
 </ul>
 Process Automation &amp; Workflow Management:
 <ul>
 <ul>
 <li>Design, implement, and maintain automated processes for legal and compliance tasks, including checklists, workflows, and reporting.</li>
 <li>Lead the enhancement of Jira as a service desk and work management tool to streamline task allocation, monitor progress, and create efficient workflows.</li>
 <li>Develop and implement SLAs in Jira to track and ensure timely resolution of legal and compliance requests.</li>
 <li>Continuously identify opportunities to optimize workflows, reduce manual intervention, and increase efficiency in daily operations.</li>
 </ul>
 </ul>
 Legal Metrics &amp; Reporting:
 <ul>
 <ul>
 <li>Create, track, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics that measure the legal team’s workload, efficiency, and performance, including building reports on Jira.</li>
 <li>Develop dashboards and reports for legal department leadership to provide insights into ongoing legal and compliance projects, including tracking key milestones, deliverables and requests on Jira.</li>
 <li>Use data analysis to assess the legal team’s workload, identify bottlenecks, and recommend areas for improvement.</li>
 </ul>
 </ul>
 Knowledge Hub Management:
 <ul>
 <ul>
 <li>Maintain and develop the legal and compliance knowledge hub, ensuring that all resources, templates, policies, and documentation are up-to-date, well-organized, and easily accessible to the team and stakeholders. Oversee the maintenance of YouLend’s contract playbooks and other guides around legal processes, and keeping these up to date.</li>
 </ul>
 </ul>
 Contract Management Support:
 <ul>
 <ul>
 <li>Provide day-to-day support with Juro, our contract management platform, including onboarding new users, troubleshooting issues, and optimizing contract workflow.</li>
 <li>Work with internal stakeholders to ensure efficient contract drafting, approval, and execution processes.</li>
 </ul>
 </ul>
 Cross-Functional Collaboration &amp; Training::
 <ul>
 <ul>
 <li>Collaborate with other departments such as IT, Finance, and Operations to ensure that legal processes are aligned with broader business systems and objectives.</li>
 <li>Lead training sessions for the legal and compliance teams on new tools and processes, ensuring they are well-equipped to use the tech stack effectively.</li>
 <li>Develop educational programs and materials to improve company-wide understanding of legal and compliance operations, including best practices and compliance obligations</li>
 </ul>
 </ul>
 Data-Driven Decision-Making &amp; Reporting:
 <ul>
 <ul>
 <li>Track and report on key legal and compliance metrics such as contract cycle times, SLA adherence, legal spend, and workload distribution to drive informed decision-making and improve operational efficiency.</li>
 <li>Create dashboards and reports for the legal and compliance leadership, providing insights into ongoing projects, tasks, and overall department performance.</li>
 <li>Use data to identify bottlenecks and recommend improvements in processes and resource allocation.</li>
 </ul>
 </ul>
 
 Requirements
 
 <ul>
 <li>3+ years of experience in legal operations, compliance operations, or project management, ideally within a fintech or tech-driven environment.</li>
 <li>Strong knowledge of Jira for service desk, ticketing systems, and work management, with experience in automating legal processes and workflows to increase efficiency, creating reports, SLAs, and tracking legal and compliance requests. Understanding of SQL (for Metabase) would be a plus.</li>
 <li>Data-driven mindset with the ability to track and report on legal department metrics, such as contract cycle times, legal spend, and operational efficiency, and experience in using data to measure and optimize team performance and inform decision-making.</li>
 <li>Experience with implementing legal tech tools and AI, and monitoring benefits and risks on an ongoing basis would be a plus.</li>
 <li>Familiarity with knowledge management systems and maintaining legal documentation.</li>
 <li>Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.</li>
 <li>Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across different teams and functions.</li>
 <li>Detail-oriented with a problem-solving mindset and a proactive approach to identifying operational improvements.</li>
 <li>Demonstrated ability to independently manage projects and lead cross-functional initiatives.</li>
 </ul>
 
 This role offers an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of legal operations in a fast-paced, innovative fintech environment. If you are passionate about leveraging technology to improve legal processes, we would love to hear from you.
 Benefits
 We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
 <ul>
 <li>Stock Options</li>
 <li>Private Medical insurance via Vitality</li>
 <li>EAP with Health Assured</li>
 <li>Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave</li>
 <li>Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London</li>
 <li>Free Gym in office building in Holborn</li>
 <li>Subsidised Lunch via Feedr</li>
 <li>Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office</li>
 <li>Monthly in office Masseuse</li>
 <li>Team and Company Socials</li>
 <li>Football Power League / Squash Club</li>
 </ul>
 
 At YouLend, we champion diversity and embrace equal opportunity employment practices. Our hiring, transfer, and promotion decisions are exclusively based on qualifications, merit, and business requirements, free from any discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, religion, nationality, or any other protected basis under applicable law.
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 About Us
 YouLend is the preferred global embedded financing platform for many of the world’s leading e-commerce sites, tech companies and payment services providers such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Mollie, Dojo, Paysafe, Just Eat Takeaway and Takepayments. Our software platform and APIs enable our partners to offer flexible financing products, in their desired branding, to their merchant base. With YouLend's AI-driven credit risk assessment solutions, more merchants and SMEs than ever can receive fast, flexible and affordable funding. We operate in 9+ geographies across the UK, EU and the US.
 We believe that the future of financial services will be delivered by customer-oriented tech companies that embed financing in their customer journeys, and we are building the solutions that will power that future.
  Why join YouLend?
 
  
   Award-Winning Team: Our Legal team recently won "In-House Banking & Financial Services Team of the Year" at The Lawyer Awards, showcasing our commitment to excellence and industry leadership
   Award-Winning Workplace: YouLend has been recognised as one of the "Best Places to Work 2024" by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace
   Award-Winning Fintech: YouLend has been recognised as a "Top 250 Fintech Worldwide" company by CNBC
  
 
 The Role:
 We are looking for a highly organized and tech-savvy Legal & Compliance Operations & Transformation to join our growing legal and compliance team. This role will focus on optimizing and transforming our legal and compliance functions through technology, automation and process improvement. You will work closely with stakeholders across the business to ensure that our legal tech stack—including Jira and Juro—is integrated seamlessly into daily operations, driving efficiency and performance. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in legal and compliance operations, project management, and data-driven decision-making, along with a proven track record of implementing legal technology and automating workflows, while having a strong understanding of relevant department metrics and data analysis to support decision-making.
 
  Key Responsibilities:
  Legal Tech Implementation:
 
  
   Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of existing and new legal tech tools to improve workflows, automate processes, and drive efficiency.
   Collaborate with IT, legal, and compliance teams to ensure the smooth integration of new and existing legal technologies, including Juro for contract management and Jira for service desk and work management. Assessing new technologies and provide ongoing support and optimization of legal tech tools, ensuring they are fully leveraged by the team.
  
 
 Process Automation & Workflow Management:
 
  
   Design, implement, and maintain automated processes for legal and compliance tasks, including checklists, workflows, and reporting.
   Lead the enhancement of Jira as a service desk and work management tool to streamline task allocation, monitor progress, and create efficient workflows.
   Develop and implement SLAs in Jira to track and ensure timely resolution of legal and compliance requests.
   Continuously identify opportunities to optimize workflows, reduce manual intervention, and increase efficiency in daily operations.
  
 
 Legal Metrics & Reporting:
 
  
   Create, track, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics that measure the legal team’s workload, efficiency, and performance, including building reports on Jira.
   Develop dashboards and reports for legal department leadership to provide insights into ongoing legal and compliance projects, including tracking key milestones, deliverables and requests on Jira.
   Use data analysis to assess the legal team’s workload, identify bottlenecks, and recommend areas for improvement.
  
 
 Knowledge Hub Management:
 
  
   Maintain and develop the legal and compliance knowledge hub, ensuring that all resources, templates, policies, and documentation are up-to-date, well-organized, and easily accessible to the team and stakeholders. Oversee the maintenance of YouLend’s contract playbooks and other guides around legal processes, and keeping these up to date.
  
 
  Contract Management Support:
 
  
   Provide day-to-day support with Juro, our contract management platform, including onboarding new users, troubleshooting issues, and optimizing contract workflow.
   Work with internal stakeholders to ensure efficient contract drafting, approval, and execution processes.
  
 
 Cross-Functional Collaboration & Training::
 
  
   Collaborate with other departments such as IT, Finance, and Operations to ensure that legal processes are aligned with broader business systems and objectives.
   Lead training sessions for the legal and compliance teams on new tools and processes, ensuring they are well-equipped to use the tech stack effectively.
   Develop educational programs and materials to improve company-wide understanding of legal and compliance operations, including best practices and compliance obligations
  
 
 Data-Driven Decision-Making & Reporting:
 
  
   Track and report on key legal and compliance metrics such as contract cycle times, SLA adherence, legal spend, and workload distribution to drive informed decision-making and improve operational efficiency.
   Create dashboards and reports for the legal and compliance leadership, providing insights into ongoing projects, tasks, and overall department performance.
   Use data to identify bottlenecks and recommend improvements in processes and resource allocation.
  
 
 
 Requirements
 
 
  3+ years of experience in legal operations, compliance operations, or project management, ideally within a fintech or tech-driven environment.
  Strong knowledge of Jira for service desk, ticketing systems, and work management, with experience in automating legal processes and workflows to increase efficiency, creating reports, SLAs, and tracking legal and compliance requests. Understanding of SQL (for Metabase) would be a plus.
  Data-driven mindset with the ability to track and report on legal department metrics, such as contract cycle times, legal spend, and operational efficiency, and experience in using data to measure and optimize team performance and inform decision-making.
  Experience with implementing legal tech tools and AI, and monitoring benefits and risks on an ongoing basis would be a plus.
  Familiarity with knowledge management systems and maintaining legal documentation.
  Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across different teams and functions.
  Detail-oriented with a problem-solving mindset and a proactive approach to identifying operational improvements.
  Demonstrated ability to independently manage projects and lead cross-functional initiatives.
 
 
 This role offers an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of legal operations in a fast-paced, innovative fintech environment. If you are passionate about leveraging technology to improve legal processes, we would love to hear from you.
  Benefits
  We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
 
  Stock Options
  Private Medical insurance via Vitality
  EAP with Health Assured
  Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
  Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London
  Free Gym in office building in Holborn
  Subsidised Lunch via Feedr
  Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office
  Monthly in office Masseuse
  Team and Company Socials
  Football Power League / Squash Club
 
 
 At YouLend, we champion diversity and embrace equal opportunity employment practices. Our hiring, transfer, and promotion decisions are exclusively based on qualifications, merit, and business requirements, free from any discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, religion, nationality, or any other protected basis under applicable law.


Legal & Compliance Operations / Transformation Lead - YouLend

Legal & Compliance Operations / Transformation Lead

You need 5+ years in compliance within financial services, KYC, transaction monitoring experience, FCA regulations knowledge, strong process development, and skills in analysis and report writing.

You will support compliance monitoring, conduct thematic reviews, assess regulatory risks, track action closures, provide oversight on consumer duty, and recommend improvements to policies and processes.

<div>
 About Us
 YouLend is the preferred global embedded financing platform for many of the world’s leading e-commerce sites, tech companies and payment services providers such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Mollie, Dojo, Paysafe, Just Eat Takeaway and Takepayments. Our software platform and APIs enable our partners to offer flexible financing products, in their desired branding, to their merchant base. With YouLend's AI-driven credit risk assessment solutions, more merchants and SMEs than ever can receive fast, flexible and affordable funding. We operate in 9+ geographies across the UK, EU and the US.
 We believe that the future of financial services will be delivered by customer-oriented tech companies that embed financing in their customer journeys, and we are building the solutions that will power that future.
 
 The Role:
 The Compliance Conduct Officer will play a crucial role in assisting with the implementation of an effective Compliance Monitoring and Testing Programme. Helping to provide oversight of policies, frameworks, tools, techniques, and support to enable risk and compliance to be managed in the first line, conduct monitoring to assess effectiveness and help ensure consistency in regulatory risk management (including the areas of Governance, BWRA, Transaction Monitoring, Information Security, Complaints, Commercial, Safeguarding, etc).
 Requirements
 <ul>
 <li>Assist and support the Global Head of Compliance with the overall design and delivery of a proportionate, risk-based Monitoring and Testing programme including a Compliance Risk Assessment in conjunction with other team members, to continually identify the key regulatory risks applicable to You Lend.</li>
 <li>Assist with the embedding of a customer outcomes mind-set, ensuring monitoring is focused on the identification of and enhancements to customer outcomes for all You Lend customers and partners.</li>
 <li>Perform thematic testing reviews and escalate findings to key stakeholders, working with team leaders to address and mitigate any concerns identified.</li>
 <li>Perform ongoing monitoring of key processes, ensuring key regulatory risks are identified and regularly assessed.</li>
 <li>Perform ‘check the checker’ testing on the 1st line control framework and provide challenge and feedback to help strengthen/enhance, as appropriate.</li>
 <li>Ensure actions are tracked to closure (including post closure testing/monitoring where appropriate).</li>
 <li>Track, monitor and report on progress of the annual monitoring programme, updating it on a continuous basis to adapt to the changing environment and risks within the business.</li>
 <li>Provide Compliance oversight with our consumer duty requirements, supporting areas of the business with their assessments on outsourcing, product governance, complaints, conflicts of interest etc.,).</li>
 <li>Assist with the identification and assessment of current and future regulatory risks across key areas in compliance monitoring and flag/escalate issues in a timely manner. Where appropriate make recommendations to mitigate those risks.</li>
 <li>Make recommendations to improve policies, processes, and rules to improve the effectiveness of the controls, identify non-compliance with regulations or policies, identifying gaps in systems and processes.</li>
 </ul>
 
 Essential Skills:
 <ul>
 <li>A minimum of 5 years experience in a compliance role within the financial services industry, payment institution or a similar regulated entity.</li>
 <li>Experience in the Oversight Supervision of Partners with strong foundational knowledge of key elements including Customer Due Diligence (KYC/KYB/ Onboarding), Transaction Monitoring, mitigating risks.</li>
 <li>Experience within a Compliance function and/or controls environment, ideally within a corporate lending business.</li>
 <li>Knowledge of reviewing, interpretation of and implementation of FCA regulatory requirements (FCA Handbook), Payment Services Regulation, JMLSG, etc.</li>
 <li>Proven experience of initiating and implementing process development.</li>
 <li>Delivery of high quality reviews and assessments.</li>
 <li>Factual analysis and report writing skills.</li>
 </ul>
 Benefits
 Why join YouLend?
 <ul>
 <li>Award-Winning Workplace: YouLend has been recognised as one of the “Best Places to Work 2024” by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace.</li>
 <li>Award-Winning Fintech: YouLend has been recognised as a “Top 250 Fintech Worldwide” company by CNBC.</li>
 </ul>
 
 We offer comprehensive benefits package that includes:
 <ul>
 <li>Stock Options</li>
 <li>Private Medical insurance via Vitality</li>
 <li>EAP with Health Assured</li>
 <li>Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave</li>
 <li>Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London</li>
 <li>Free Gym in office building in Holborn</li>
 <li>Subsidised Lunch via Feedr</li>
 <li>Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office</li>
 <li>Monthly in office Masseuse</li>
 <li>Team and Company Socials</li>
 <li>Football Power League / Squash Club</li>
 </ul>
 
 At YouLend, we champion diversity and embrace equal opportunity employment practices. Our hiring, transfer, and promotion decisions are exclusively based on qualifications, merit, and business requirements, free from any discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, religion, nationality, or any other protected basis under applicable law.
 
 Salary range: £55,000 - 75,000 + Annual bonus
</div>


 About Us
 YouLend is the preferred global embedded financing platform for many of the world’s leading e-commerce sites, tech companies and payment services providers such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Mollie, Dojo, Paysafe, Just Eat Takeaway and Takepayments. Our software platform and APIs enable our partners to offer flexible financing products, in their desired branding, to their merchant base. With YouLend's AI-driven credit risk assessment solutions, more merchants and SMEs than ever can receive fast, flexible and affordable funding. We operate in 9+ geographies across the UK, EU and the US.
 We believe that the future of financial services will be delivered by customer-oriented tech companies that embed financing in their customer journeys, and we are building the solutions that will power that future.
 
  The Role:
 The Compliance Conduct Officer will play a crucial role in assisting with the implementation of an effective Compliance Monitoring and Testing Programme. Helping to provide oversight of policies, frameworks, tools, techniques, and support to enable risk and compliance to be managed in the first line, conduct monitoring to assess effectiveness and help ensure consistency in regulatory risk management (including the areas of Governance, BWRA, Transaction Monitoring, Information Security, Complaints, Commercial, Safeguarding, etc).
  Requirements
 
  Assist and support the Global Head of Compliance with the overall design and delivery of a proportionate, risk-based Monitoring and Testing programme including a Compliance Risk Assessment in conjunction with other team members, to continually identify the key regulatory risks applicable to You Lend.
  Assist with the embedding of a customer outcomes mind-set, ensuring monitoring is focused on the identification of and enhancements to customer outcomes for all You Lend customers and partners.
  Perform thematic testing reviews and escalate findings to key stakeholders, working with team leaders to address and mitigate any concerns identified.
  Perform ongoing monitoring of key processes, ensuring key regulatory risks are identified and regularly assessed.
  Perform ‘check the checker’ testing on the 1st line control framework and provide challenge and feedback to help strengthen/enhance, as appropriate.
  Ensure actions are tracked to closure (including post closure testing/monitoring where appropriate).
  Track, monitor and report on progress of the annual monitoring programme, updating it on a continuous basis to adapt to the changing environment and risks within the business.
  Provide Compliance oversight with our consumer duty requirements, supporting areas of the business with their assessments on outsourcing, product governance, complaints, conflicts of interest etc.,).
  Assist with the identification and assessment of current and future regulatory risks across key areas in compliance monitoring and flag/escalate issues in a timely manner. Where appropriate make recommendations to mitigate those risks.
  Make recommendations to improve policies, processes, and rules to improve the effectiveness of the controls, identify non-compliance with regulations or policies, identifying gaps in systems and processes.
 
 
 Essential Skills:
 
  A minimum of 5 years experience in a compliance role within the financial services industry, payment institution or a similar regulated entity.
  Experience in the Oversight Supervision of Partners with strong foundational knowledge of key elements including Customer Due Diligence (KYC/KYB/ Onboarding), Transaction Monitoring, mitigating risks.
  Experience within a Compliance function and/or controls environment, ideally within a corporate lending business.
  Knowledge of reviewing, interpretation of and implementation of FCA regulatory requirements (FCA Handbook), Payment Services Regulation, JMLSG, etc.
  Proven experience of initiating and implementing process development.
  Delivery of high quality reviews and assessments.
  Factual analysis and report writing skills.
 
 Benefits
  Why join YouLend?
 
  Award-Winning Workplace: YouLend has been recognised as one of the “Best Places to Work 2024” by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace.
  Award-Winning Fintech: YouLend has been recognised as a “Top 250 Fintech Worldwide” company by CNBC.
 
 
 We offer comprehensive benefits package that includes:
 
  Stock Options
  Private Medical insurance via Vitality
  EAP with Health Assured
  Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
  Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London
  Free Gym in office building in Holborn
  Subsidised Lunch via Feedr
  Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office
  Monthly in office Masseuse
  Team and Company Socials
  Football Power League / Squash Club
 
 
 At YouLend, we champion diversity and embrace equal opportunity employment practices. Our hiring, transfer, and promotion decisions are exclusively based on qualifications, merit, and business requirements, free from any discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, religion, nationality, or any other protected basis under applicable law.
 
  Salary range: £55,000 - 75,000 + Annual bonus


Compliance Conduct Officer - YouLend

Compliance Conduct Officer

You need 3+ years of relevant legal experience, UK/US/EU qualification, fintech interest, project management skills, and a proactive, adaptable approach to diverse legal challenges.

You will support legal processes, negotiate partnerships, draft agreements, respond to queries, mentor juniors, ensure compliance, and provide strategic advice.

<div>
 About Us
 YouLend is the preferred global embedded financing platform for many of the world’s leading e-commerce sites, tech companies and payment services providers such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Mollie, Dojo, Paysafe, Just Eat Takeaway and Takepayments. Our software platform and APIs enable our partners to offer flexible financing products, in their desired branding, to their merchant base. With YouLend's AI-driven credit risk assessment solutions, more merchants and SMEs than ever can receive fast, flexible and affordable funding. We operate in 9+ geographies across the UK, EU and the US.
 We believe that the future of financial services will be delivered by customer-oriented tech companies that embed financing in their customer journeys, and we are building the solutions that will power that future.
 
 The Role:
 We are seeking a top-performing, smart and motivated individual to join our legal team in London. You will work with the legal team and the wider company to deliver growth against ambitious targets (&gt;doubling each year), support YouLend’s business in the UK, US and Europe. If you have 3+ years of PQE with experience in commercial, finance, corporate and/or fintech practice and are looking for an opportunity to grow within a supportive and knowledgeable team environment, this could be a great opportunity for you. The role is varied and will require you to develop capabilities across product, tech, commercial negotiation, investor relations (debt and equity), regulatory, project management and stakeholder management. This position offers the opportunity to make the role your own, career progression, a mature culture and a team with extensive experience and credibility in the market at all levels.
 Requirements
 You will:
 <ul>
 <li>Work closely with the legal team and business to find innovative and business friendly solutions, e.g., ensuring swift merchant onboarding, developing legal processes across geographies as well as contributing and driving legal product development</li>
 </ul>
 <ul>
 <li>Support the sales and partnership teams negotiating major partnerships for YouLend, including participating in the RFP / term sheet process and drafting/updating bespoke agreements. Some of YouLend’s partners include Amazon, Dojo, eBay, Mollie, Paysafe, and Shopify.</li>
 <li>Support the capital markets teams on existing and new capital mandates</li>
 <li>Support the product team on YouLend' s existing products and the development of new products</li>
 <li>Draft, review and negotiate agreements, contracts, amendments and other legal documents</li>
 <li>Respond to ad hoc legal queries from the business, providing appropriate legal solutions</li>
 <li>Develop and deliver legal trainings across various teams in the organisation</li>
 <li>Help supervise and mentor junior members of the legal team</li>
 <li>Ensure successful go live with partners</li>
 <li>Ensure successful roll-out in new geographies</li>
 <li>Work with external counsel across jurisdictions to ensure YouLend’s regulatory compliance and manage counsel effectively where they are engaged in connection with specific projects, while establishing your own strong domain expertise.</li>
 <li>Provide expert and strategic legal advice to the General Counsel and executive management</li>
 </ul>
 
 You have:
 <ul>
 <li>3+ years of relevant post-qualification experience either in-house or in private practice, with a focus on commercial, finance, corporate and/or fintech practice</li>
 <li>UK, US or EU-qualified lawyer in good standing with experience working in the UK, US and/or EU</li>
 <li>A keen interest in Fintech and YouLend’s products</li>
 <li>Knowledge and understanding of commercial transactions, corporate law and cross-border transactions</li>
 <li>Ability to manage complex projects involving coordination across multiple time zones, challenging legal issues and tight deadlines</li>
 <li>Ability to exercise initiative and drive effective internal decision making across complex workstreams to enable Youlend to meet its long-term goals</li>
 <li>Highly driven and proactive. Must be keen to create process and structure and strive for continuous improvement</li>
 <li>Must be flexible, able to multitask, detail-oriented, and enjoy fast paced and high-intensity work, bias to action and “get things done fast”-mentality</li>
 <li>Exposure to a broad range of commercial and technology law issues and experience across a range of commercial contracts and the ability to analyse and identify the core legal issues</li>
 <li>Adaptability and willingness to roll sleeves up and get involved with all parts of the business is a key requirement</li>
 <li>Desire for a broad variety of work and willingness to learn rather than focus in a specific area of law</li>
 <li>A fast, self-driven learner who can gain rapid familiarity with complex products, solutions and legal frameworks and maintain knowledge of those changing products, solutions and legal frameworks</li>
 <li>Solutions orientated with excellent time management, planning and organisational skill</li>
 </ul>
 
 The following would be useful:
 <ul>
 <li>Experience in business finance/ fintech / high-growth tech or working in a scale-up business / fintech</li>
 </ul>
 Benefits
 Why join YouLend?
 <ul>
 <li>Award-Winning Team: Our Legal team recently won "In-House Banking &amp; Financial Services Team of the Year" at The Lawyer Awards, showcasing our commitment to excellence and industry leadership.</li>
 <li>Award-Winning Workplace: YouLend has been recognised as one of the “Best Places to Work 2024” by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace.</li>
 <li>Award-Winning Fintech: YouLend has been recognised as a “Top 250 Fintech Worldwide” company by CNBC.</li>
 </ul>
 
 We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
 <ul>
 <li>Stock Options</li>
 <li>Private Medical insurance via Vitality</li>
 <li>EAP with Health Assured</li>
 <li>Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave</li>
 <li>Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London</li>
 <li>Free Gym in office building in Holborn</li>
 <li>Subsidised Lunch via Feedr</li>
 <li>Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office</li>
 <li>Monthly in office Masseuse</li>
 <li>Team and Company Socials</li>
 <li>Football Power League / Squash Club</li>
 </ul>
 
 At YouLend, we champion diversity and embrace equal opportunity employment practices. Our hiring, transfer, and promotion decisions are exclusively based on qualifications, merit, and business requirements, free from any discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, religion, nationality, or any other protected basis under applicable law.
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 About Us
 YouLend is the preferred global embedded financing platform for many of the world’s leading e-commerce sites, tech companies and payment services providers such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Mollie, Dojo, Paysafe, Just Eat Takeaway and Takepayments. Our software platform and APIs enable our partners to offer flexible financing products, in their desired branding, to their merchant base. With YouLend's AI-driven credit risk assessment solutions, more merchants and SMEs than ever can receive fast, flexible and affordable funding. We operate in 9+ geographies across the UK, EU and the US.
 We believe that the future of financial services will be delivered by customer-oriented tech companies that embed financing in their customer journeys, and we are building the solutions that will power that future.
 
  The Role:
 We are seeking a top-performing, smart and motivated individual to join our legal team in London. You will work with the legal team and the wider company to deliver growth against ambitious targets (>doubling each year), support YouLend’s business in the UK, US and Europe. If you have 3+ years of PQE with experience in commercial, finance, corporate and/or fintech practice and are looking for an opportunity to grow within a supportive and knowledgeable team environment, this could be a great opportunity for you. The role is varied and will require you to develop capabilities across product, tech, commercial negotiation, investor relations (debt and equity), regulatory, project management and stakeholder management. This position offers the opportunity to make the role your own, career progression, a mature culture and a team with extensive experience and credibility in the market at all levels.
  Requirements
  You will:
 
  Work closely with the legal team and business to find innovative and business friendly solutions, e.g., ensuring swift merchant onboarding, developing legal processes across geographies as well as contributing and driving legal product development
 
 
  Support the sales and partnership teams negotiating major partnerships for YouLend, including participating in the RFP / term sheet process and drafting/updating bespoke agreements. Some of YouLend’s partners include Amazon, Dojo, eBay, Mollie, Paysafe, and Shopify.
  Support the capital markets teams on existing and new capital mandates
  Support the product team on YouLend' s existing products and the development of new products
  Draft, review and negotiate agreements, contracts, amendments and other legal documents
  Respond to ad hoc legal queries from the business, providing appropriate legal solutions
  Develop and deliver legal trainings across various teams in the organisation
  Help supervise and mentor junior members of the legal team
  Ensure successful go live with partners
  Ensure successful roll-out in new geographies
  Work with external counsel across jurisdictions to ensure YouLend’s regulatory compliance and manage counsel effectively where they are engaged in connection with specific projects, while establishing your own strong domain expertise.
  Provide expert and strategic legal advice to the General Counsel and executive management
 
 
 You have:
 
  3+ years of relevant post-qualification experience either in-house or in private practice, with a focus on commercial, finance, corporate and/or fintech practice
  UK, US or EU-qualified lawyer in good standing with experience working in the UK, US and/or EU
  A keen interest in Fintech and YouLend’s products
  Knowledge and understanding of commercial transactions, corporate law and cross-border transactions
  Ability to manage complex projects involving coordination across multiple time zones, challenging legal issues and tight deadlines
  Ability to exercise initiative and drive effective internal decision making across complex workstreams to enable Youlend to meet its long-term goals
  Highly driven and proactive. Must be keen to create process and structure and strive for continuous improvement
  Must be flexible, able to multitask, detail-oriented, and enjoy fast paced and high-intensity work, bias to action and “get things done fast”-mentality
  Exposure to a broad range of commercial and technology law issues and experience across a range of commercial contracts and the ability to analyse and identify the core legal issues
  Adaptability and willingness to roll sleeves up and get involved with all parts of the business is a key requirement
  Desire for a broad variety of work and willingness to learn rather than focus in a specific area of law
  A fast, self-driven learner who can gain rapid familiarity with complex products, solutions and legal frameworks and maintain knowledge of those changing products, solutions and legal frameworks
  Solutions orientated with excellent time management, planning and organisational skill
 
 
 The following would be useful:
 
  Experience in business finance/ fintech / high-growth tech or working in a scale-up business / fintech
 
  Benefits
  Why join YouLend?
 
  Award-Winning Team: Our Legal team recently won "In-House Banking & Financial Services Team of the Year" at The Lawyer Awards, showcasing our commitment to excellence and industry leadership.
  Award-Winning Workplace: YouLend has been recognised as one of the “Best Places to Work 2024” by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace.
  Award-Winning Fintech: YouLend has been recognised as a “Top 250 Fintech Worldwide” company by CNBC.
 
 
 We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
 
  Stock Options
  Private Medical insurance via Vitality
  EAP with Health Assured
  Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
  Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London
  Free Gym in office building in Holborn
  Subsidised Lunch via Feedr
  Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office
  Monthly in office Masseuse
  Team and Company Socials
  Football Power League / Squash Club
 
 
 At YouLend, we champion diversity and embrace equal opportunity employment practices. Our hiring, transfer, and promotion decisions are exclusively based on qualifications, merit, and business requirements, free from any discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, religion, nationality, or any other protected basis under applicable law.


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