Senior Legal Lead

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Legal Lead

Job Opening ID: 263
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Maintain and improve Qore’s legal documentation infrastructure, including templates, standard terms, clause libraries, precedent records and legal playbooks.
• Provide legal advisory support to business teams on commercial decisions, product structures, operational matters, employment-adjacent issues, regulatory-adjacent questions and other matters with legal implications.
• Support the Chief LRCC Officer on Board-facing legal matters, shareholder and equity matters, corporate structure questions, investor-related legal documentation and governance-adjacent legal work.
• Identify, assess and escalate legal risks, including risks connected to the PSSP licence process, regulatory engagement, market expansion, commercial transactions, customer commitments and partner relationships.
• Lead the review, drafting, negotiation and management of commercial agreements across Qore’s business lines, including platform agreements, technology contracts, vendor agreements, partnership arrangements, NDAs, service agreements, data processing agreements and other commercial documentation.
• Brief, instruct and supervise external counsel on matters referred externally, and manage associated costs within approved parameters.
• Provide occasional cross-functional support to other LRCC teams in crisis or high-priority matters, where legal judgement or generalist LRCC experience is required.
• Manage the contract lifecycle, including intake, review, negotiation, execution, filing, renewal tracking, expiry tracking and repository discipline.
• Ensure contracts and legal documents are reviewed within agreed SLAs and through the approved task management system.
• Review AI-assisted legal outputs before they are treated as legal positions, used in external communications, escalated to management, or submitted to the Board, regulators or counterparties.
• Coordinate with Regulatory Affairs, Compliance, Risk, Privacy and Corporate Governance leads on matters with cross-domain legal implications.

Requirements

• Strong written communication, sound judgement under pressure and the ability to explain legal risk clearly to non-lawyers.
• Minimum of 6–8 years’ post-call experience.
• Good generalist legal range across commercial contracts, regulatory-adjacent advisory, corporate governance, dispute support, employment-adjacent legal issues and legal risk management.
• Experience advising on commercial contracts, regulatory-adjacent legal issues, product or technology matters, data protection clauses, vendor risk and business expansion.
• Comfort working in a lean, high-accountability, AI-enabled legal and governance environment.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams simultaneously with structured, documented output and strong SLA discipline.
• Nigerian-qualified lawyer with LLB and BL.
• Experience in a reputable commercial law firm and an in-house / industry role within a regulated business, financial services institution, fintech, payments company, technology company or similarly complex environment.
• Strong understanding of Nigerian and African commercial law, corporate law, contract fundamentals, technology contracting and the legal environment for fintech, payments or digital financial services.
• Strong commercial legal drafting, negotiation and advisory experience.
• Experience working with or managing external counsel.

Advantageous:

• Experience supporting Board-facing, investor-facing or regulator-facing legal matters.
• LLM, compliance, governance, technology law, data protection or financial services qualification.
• Experience in fintech, payments, banking infrastructure, lending automation, financial technology, SaaS or regulated technology businesses.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• The ideal candidate is a commercially grounded lawyer who can move between detail and judgement quickly.
• They are precise with documents, practical with advice, disciplined with timelines, and mature enough to know when a matter can be resolved at Legal level and when it must be escalated.
• They must be comfortable operating in a growing function where structure is being deliberately built and where legal support must enable speed without compromising defensibility.

Benefits
Qore provides the rare opportunity to make history in the financial space for Africa by Africans, while working with the smartest, brightest & coolest minds in Africa. Our people & culture team continuously thinks of innovative ways to improve employee experience and some of the other benefits of working with Qore includes:

• Lifelong Learnings
• Paid Lunch (i.e., if working onsite)
• Very Competitive & Rewarding Pay
• Flexible work option (i.e., Remote)