Junior Associate Counsel, Commercial Transactions

Sezzle

3d • Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a talented and motivated Junior Associate Counsel, Commercial Transactions, who is best-in-class, with a high IQ and a high EQ. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement. This is an early-career role on Sezzle's Legal team, working alongside our Senior Counsel, Commercial Transactions on the vendor contracts we buy under and the merchant agreements we sell under. Nearly all of this work is governed by US law and negotiated in English with US counterparties. You will build real transactional skills fast: drafting, negotiating, and closing agreements with growing independence, using our playbooks and Claude-enabled contract workflows. We are looking for someone who is business-first and practical, who wants to learn how to find the path to “yes” rather than lead with “no.”

Requirements

• Law degree and admission to practice in LATAM (tarjeta profesional) or a US jurisdiction.
• 1 to 2 years of commercial, corporate, or transactional experience at a law firm or in-house, including internships, prácticas, or judicatura.
• Full professional fluency in written and spoken English, enough to read, draft, and discuss US-law governed contracts directly with US counterparties, plus native or fluent Spanish.
• Some hands-on exposure to drafting or reviewing commercial contracts in English.
• Regular, hands-on use of AI tools such as Claude in your academic or professional work, and real interest in building better legal workflows with them.
• Strong attention to detail and the organization to handle a high volume of contracts with accurate, reliable turnaround.
• A business-first mindset: you want to understand the deal, not just the clause, and you can explain risk and opportunity in plain language.
• Availability to work with full overlap with US Central business hours.
• Demonstrated experience working with Claude or equivalent large language model tools is required; candidates must be comfortable leveraging AI to enhance productivity, research, and communication.

Nice To Haves

• Coursework or an LL.M. in US law
• Interest or experience in fintech, payments, banking, or e-commerce
• Exposure to data privacy terms, SaaS procurement, or contract lifecycle tools

Responsibilities

• Review and negotiate NDAs, order forms, SOWs, and standard SaaS, services, data, and marketing agreements on Sezzle paper and counterparty paper, working from our playbooks and escalating non-standard terms.
• Prepare first drafts of merchant agreements, amendments, and onboarding terms, and turn counterparty redlines with guidance from senior lawyers on the team.
• Identify the terms that carry real exposure (limitation of liability, indemnities, IP, data privacy and security, audit rights, termination, service levels) and summarize them in plain English for deal teams and senior counsel.
• Answer day-to-day contract questions from Sales, Partnerships, Procurement, Finance, Product, and Engineering with fast, practical guidance that starts from what the business is trying to achieve.
• Run contracts through our Claude-enabled review workflows, check the output critically, and help improve review playbooks and prompts as templates and positions change.
• Manage matters through our intake queue and contract lifecycle platform, run pre-signature checks on parties, exhibits, and signature authority, and keep renewals, amendments, and key obligations tracked.
• Help maintain contract templates, fallback positions, and a precedent library so the next deal moves faster.
• Work with Compliance and Procurement to confirm vendor and partner agreements include the third-party risk management and bank-partner oversight terms we require.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed