About the RoleWe're hiring our first Senior Counsel: the General Counsel's first hire and the second lawyer at the company. Because Félix is a regulated fintech, Legal is part of every major decision! You'll be brought in early and work with our VPs and C-suite on the company's most important commercial deals, from structuring and negotiation strategy through signing, so your advice will directly shape how we build and grow.
As we expand from remittances into credit, yield, and wallet products, you'll own our commercial contracting and lead on Latin American legal matters. It's a senior, independent role, and the impact goes beyond the deals themselves: you'll use top-tier legal skills to serve the Latino community, helping build financial products for people the traditional system has overlooked.
Responsibilities- Lead negotiation and drafting of commercial agreements across our fintech stack. That includes payout partners across Latin America, liquidity providers, payment and card networks, stablecoin issuers and crypto infrastructure providers, yield providers, and banking-as-a-service platforms.
- Negotiate technology agreements: master services agreements, API and platform integrations, and data-sharing arrangements. You'll turn what business needs from a partner into enforceable contract terms, including consumer data protection.
- Bring commercial contract review in-house. You'll review complex agreements independently and reduce our reliance on outside counsel.
- Own Latin American legal matters: employment and contractor arrangements for our teams across the region, FX and marketing rules, and the regulations that govern how we operate in each market.
- Build our contract review playbooks and run them on AI-powered legal tech, so Legal can scale efficiently.
- Handle the range of legal questions that come up in a fast-moving business. This is a generalist role in a legal function that is still being built, and the work won't stay inside the commercial lane.
- Help build the processes and templates a growing legal department runs on.
Areas of law you'll encounterThe commercial work sits at the intersection of several regulated areas. You will not be the subject-matter expert in all of them, but you should be able to spot the issues, engage credibly with specialists, and know when a deal point carries regulatory consequences:
- Financial services and technology commercial contracting
- Data privacy
- Money transmission
- Securities
- Intellectual property
- Consumer lending
- Latin American law - employment, regulatory, commercial
Requirements- US-qualified attorney, admitted and in good standing, and allowed to practice in the state where you live.
- Strong academic credentials. A JD or LLM from a leading US law school is preferred.
- Qualified to practice in at least one Latin American country, with experience coordinating legal work across several countries in the region.
- 7+ years of legal experience. Ideally, that's several years at a top-tier international law firm (US or Latin American office) followed by at least two years in-house doing commercial work at a fintech, bank, or financial services company.
- Hands-on experience with technology deals: MSAs, API integrations, data privacy, and the contracting involved in launching a new technology partner.
- Comfort with the financial side: you understand FX rates, liquidity providers, credit, and yield products, payment rails, and how a deal term affects pricing and the customer experience.
- Proven ability to run complex commercial negotiations independently and reach commercially sound outcomes.
- Experience building contract review playbooks and using AI or legal tech to automate or speed up review.
- Real curiosity about the business. You can explain what makes a product work and why it wins, not just what its contracts say.
- Spanish fluency, both conversational and legal. You can review Spanish-language agreements and read Spanish-language statutes and regulations without translation.
- These are the applicable requirements, although equivalent competencies in any of the above will also be considered.
What We Offer- Competitive salary
- Initial stock options grant
- Annual performance bonus
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Hybrid work setup
- Health, dental, and vision plans
- 401(k) with employer matching, for US-based employees
- Continuous learning opportunities
- Empowering opportunities for growth in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment
The starting base salary for this role typically ranges between $200,000 and $225,000 USD, tailored to experience and skill set. Because we are all owners of Félix, equity is a core component of our total compensation package. Your recruiter will walk you through our complete benefits, health coverage, equity structure, and total compensation details during your first call.
