A hybrid Legal role at Nium.
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We are looking for a commercially minded, execution-oriented Senior Commercial Counsel I to support Nium’s next phase of global growth. You will serve as a trusted legal partner to our commercial, partnership, treasury, compliance, and executive teams, leading complex transactions across payments, card issuance, treasury, and digital asset and stablecoin-enabled solutions. Success requires exceptional commercial judgment, a pragmatic mindset, and the ability to deliver clear, business-focused advice at speed.
Our Legal Team
We are known for Speed, Clarity, and Trust. We move quickly without sacrificing judgment, give practical advice that helps teams act with confidence, and focus on enabling growth and navigating complexity. The best candidates are commercially minded, highly responsive, intellectually curious, and energised by complex problems.
Lead the drafting, negotiation, and execution of complex commercial agreements with enterprise customers, financial institutions, fintechs, marketplaces, and strategic partners globally.
Own the company’s most strategic transactions end-to-end with minimal supervision.
Support the launch and scaling of new payment, card, treasury, and digital asset products, including stablecoin-enabled solutions.
Develop scalable legal infrastructure — templates, negotiation playbooks, contracting standards, and self-service resources.
Advise on vendor, technology, SaaS, data, and infrastructure agreements.
Collaborate cross-functionally with compliance, regulatory, privacy, finance, and product teams.
Drive adoption of AI-enabled legal workflows, contract automation, and knowledge management tools.
5+ years’ experience as a qualified lawyer in-house, at a top law firm, or in a government agency.
Deep expertise in commercial contracts and building scalable legal infrastructure, ideally at high-growth companies.
Experience in payments, fintech, banking, digital assets, treasury, card, or other regulated financial services strongly preferred.
Highly collaborative, solutions-oriented, and biased toward action and impact.
Exceptional communication skills and the ability to translate complex legal concepts into practical business advice.
Strong proponent and adopter of technology and AI; humble, low-ego, and committed to continuous improvement.
How we measure success
Commercial Impact: Serves as lead counsel on complex transactions, accelerates revenue generation, and consistently proposes practical solutions rather than simply identifying issues.
Speed: Is known for responsiveness and execution. Drives negotiations forward, continuously improving turnaround times through better processes, templates, and AI-enabled tools.
Clarity: Translates complex legal and regulatory issues into concise, actionable guidance, and creates scalable self-service resources that empower teams to move faster.
Trust: Quickly becomes a trusted advisor to commercial, finance, compliance, treasury, and executive stakeholders through sound judgment, pragmatism, and deep product knowledge.
Raises the Bar: Improves the quality and scalability of legal support by building durable templates, playbooks, and frameworks — and consistently leaves every process better than they found it.
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Nium is a Singapore-headquartered cross-border payments company. Initially founded by Prajit Nanu and Michael Bermingham, and launched as a consumer-remittance platform Instarem in 2014. In 2016, the company introduced its B2B payments platform and rebranded as Nium in 2019, subsequently elevating Pratik Gandhi to co-founder in 2021. However, Gandhi left Nium in October 2023, around the time Nium's Chief Product Officer also left the company and Nium announced a layoff of over 10% of its global staff.
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