Legal Counsel

Join Zepz: Breaking Down Borders, Together

We look for mission-driven builders who thrive in a fast-paced environment connected to a true purpose. We’re an always developing team of experts that enjoy problem solving and bring clarity to tough challenges. At Zepz, we are Relentless Learners, always seeking feedback, and Responsible Owners, treating company resources like your own. We depend on Transparent Communicators who keep the team aligned through open, honest talk.

• Integrity: We always do the right thing. It’s simple, but it’s the foundation of everything we build for our customers and each other.
• Outcomes: We work for our customers. Their success and prosperity are the results we focus on delivering.
• Velocity: We are fast! We maintain high energy levels and make smart decisions quickly, keeping us nimble and ahead of the curve.

We believe in empowering colleagues because we genuinely trust our team. Our culture is founded on this high trust, which naturally encourages the high ownership that drives us to meet our shared high expectations and deliver high performance. While we have all the tools to work remotely, we value the purpose and benefits of in-person connections so we expect our teams to come to the office on a regular basis, and therefore be within a comfortable commutable distance from our London office. Alongside a great office environment, think unlimited annual leave , great healthcare benefits, and employee discounts. We want you to thrive and focus entirely on making your biggest impact! In turn, we expect you to bring high ownership and commitment to your work. This is a place where we value trust and high performance, and we'll provide the environment and support needed for you to excel

• Qualified Solicitor: You are a qualified solicitor in England and Wales (or hold an equivalent common law qualification) with a valid practising certificate and, as a guide, two to five years’ post-qualification experience.
• High-Volume Commercial Contracting: You have strong commercial drafting and negotiation skills and a proven ability to manage a heavy caseload of agreements at pace without sacrificing quality. You are comfortable running a negotiation from first draft to signature, prioritising against the needs of the business and knowing when a point is worth fighting for.
• Payments or Fintech Experience: You have worked with payments, e-money, remittance or broader fintech businesses, whether in-house, in private practice or on secondment. You understand how a regulated payments business makes money and where its legal risk sits.
• Regulatory Experience: You have advised on financial services regulation in practice, with familiarity with frameworks such as the Payment Services Regulations, the Electronic Money Regulations, safeguarding and consumer protection. Experience of anti-money laundering, data protection or crypto-asset regulation is an advantage.
• Legal Technology Proficiency: You are proficient in at least one major legal technology platform, such as Ironclad, Juro, LawVu or an equivalent contract lifecycle management system, and you are comfortable working within workflow and ticketing tools such as Jira and DocuSign. You see a repetitive task as a process to be improved rather than a chore to be endured.
• Judgement and Clarity: You give advice the business can act on, you know the difference between a legal risk and a commercial preference and you are not afraid to say so when a proposed course of action is wrong.
• Attention to Detail & Organisation: You have strong attention to detail and strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise competing workstreams in line with the needs of the Legal team and wider business.
• Collaboration: You have strong interpersonal and communication skills. You build strong working relationships at every level, internally and externally, communicate progress proactively and share what you learn with the rest of the team.

• Draft, review and negotiate a high volume of commercial agreements across the group, including supplier and SaaS agreements, payout partner and banking arrangements, marketing and affiliate agreements and NDAs.
• Own the maintenance and improvement of our commercial templates, fallback positions and negotiation playbooks so that routine agreements can be concluded quickly and consistently.
• Act as the first point of contact for commercial legal queries from Marketing, Business Development, Procurement, Partnerships and Product, triaging what can be resolved directly and what requires escalation.
• Manage the lifecycle of contracts in our contract management system, ensuring key terms, renewals and obligations are captured and tracked.

• Work with Compliance, Marketing, Product and Engineering to assess the legal implications of new products, features and market launches within an FCA-regulated payments environment.
• Support the legal workstreams arising from regulatory change, including the Payment Services Regulations, safeguarding, consumer protection and crypto-asset regulation, under the direction of senior lawyers.
• Assist with data protection matters that touch commercial arrangements, including data processing agreements and the review of data flows with vendors and partners.
• Help coordinate advice from external counsel in international markets and translate it into clear guidance for the business.

• Use our legal technology platforms to their full extent and contribute to the design and roll-out of improved workflows, self-service resources and training for the business.
• Support the wider Group Legal team on ad hoc matters, including brand protection, disputes and project work, as the needs of the business require.

• A genuine curiosity about AI and how it can be applied in your area of work — from accelerating analysis and insight generation, to improving how we design and deliver processes and communications.
• Practical experience using AI tools in a professional context — whether to connect information, draft content, build frameworks, or create insights from data. We want people who actively use AI to increase productivity, not those who are waiting to be told to.
• Strong AI literacy — an understanding of what AI assistants can and cannot do, how to prompt effectively, and how to critically evaluate AI-generated output before using it.
• Awareness of the ethical considerations and responsible use of AI in the workplace, particularly in the context of sensitive data, customer experience, and compliance.
• Prior experience using Claude (Anthropic) is a nice-to-have but not essential — what matters most is that you are genuinely engaged with AI as a tool, comfortable experimenting, and eager to share what works with your wider team