Manager, Legal
Qore · Lagos ·
- Employment
- Contract
- Category
- Management
- Experience
- 6+ years
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Coordinate
with Regulatory Affairs, Compliance, Risk, Privacy and Corporate Governance
leads on matters with cross-domain 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.
- Maintain
and improve Qore’s legal documentation infrastructure, including templates,
standard terms, clause libraries, precedent records and legal playbooks.
- Brief,
instruct and supervise external counsel on matters referred externally, and
manage associated costs within approved parameters.
- 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.
- Provide
occasional cross-functional support to other LRCC teams in crisis or
high-priority matters, where legal judgement or generalist LRCC experience is
required.
Requirements
- Nigerian-qualified
lawyer with LLB and BL.
- Minimum
of 6–8 years’ post-call experience.
- 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
commercial legal drafting, negotiation and advisory experience.
- 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.
- Experience
advising on commercial contracts, regulatory-adjacent legal issues, product or
technology matters, data protection clauses, vendor risk and business
expansion.
- Good
generalist legal range across commercial contracts, regulatory-adjacent
advisory, corporate governance, dispute support, employment-adjacent legal
issues and legal risk management.
- Experience
managing multiple workstreams simultaneously with structured, documented output
and strong SLA discipline.
- Experience
working with or managing external counsel.
- Strong
written communication, sound judgement under pressure and the ability to
explain legal risk clearly to non-lawyers.
- Comfort
working in a lean, high-accountability, AI-enabled legal and governance
environment.
Advantageous
- Experience
in fintech, payments, banking infrastructure, lending automation, financial
technology, SaaS or regulated technology businesses.
- Experience
supporting Board-facing, investor-facing or regulator-facing legal matters.
- LLM,
compliance, governance, technology law, data protection or financial services
qualification.
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:
- Very Competitive & Rewarding Pay
- Flexible work option (i.e., Remote)
- Paid Lunch (i.e., if working onsite)
- Lifelong Learnings