Remote Legal Specialist

A little bit about us:

We are Belvo, an open finance API platform with the bold vision of democratizing access to financial services in Latin America. We enable any financial innovator to access and interpret financial data, as well as initiate payments from their end-users accounts. We’re turning the messy complexities of the Latin American financial ecosystem into a modern set of tools to access and interpret data and move money in a seamless and secure way.

We’re a highly-technical, passionate, and driven team. We are more than 90 people and our team currently represents 20 nationalities. We have offices in São Paulo and Mexico City – while a large portion of us work remotely.

We are tackling a very stimulating problem: connecting fintech innovators with legacy financial infrastructure. We strive to go beyond the limits of what is possible today and to do so in an elegant and developer-first way.

Since starting our adventure in May 2019, we have raised $56m from the leading VC investors globally.

You can read more about our company here and about our team and culture here. Also, head to our blog for more news about what we’re building and how we work.

About the team:

• We work in cross-functional, autonomous teams. We follow continuous delivery best practices executed on top of a modern technology stack.

• Our products are built for developers, by developers. Technological excellence is at the heart of what we do.

• We are pragmatic and customer-focused. We strive to find the right set of trade-offs in order to validate our hypothesis as early as possible, iterating on our products based on customer feedback.

• We communicate transparently. We do weekly all-hands where we get together to discuss company performance and goals.

• While we are global and remote-friendly, we also operate from our vibrant offices in CDMX and Sao Paulo. To accommodate the various time zone sin which we are based, we ensure we’re always synced up between 3 pm and 6 pm, CEST.

• Also, we are backed by some of the leading investors in Silicon Valley and Latin America, including Founders Fund, Kaszek Ventures, and YCombinator.

Your opportunity:

• Ditch your old legalese behind and join an ambitious and fast-paced Legal team.

• Research and analyze laws,regulations and procedures to provide legal support.

• Carry out privacy impact assessments.

• Assess all sorts of legal matters: contracts, privacy, corporate, regulatory, and everything legal. Here is a place to learn and share knowledge.

• Support the Contract Life Cycle Management by drafting, reviewing, negotiating, amending, releasing and guaranteeing the quality of middle/high complexity documents.

• Ensure proper follow-up of entrusted matters, daily tracking and update the progress to the relevant areas considering the timely completion of the ticketing system.

• Support with the internal corporate control including coordinate with outside counsels and draft corporate documents for the Mexican entities.

• Interact with stakeholders with different backgrounds, actively supporting them in getting things done.

• You will also need to not only do legal stuff, but to build and improve processes, and prepare presentations.

• Perform other related tasks within the job level as may be requested by the immediate supervisor.

• Keep alignment within the legal team, have relentless curiosity, get things done and be humble and transparent.

This position may be for you if:

• A bachelor’s degree in Law.

• 4+ years of experience within a legal function in law firms, Fintech,  technology companies or financial institutions.

• Experience in the field of data protection and privacy laws. This includes familiarity with international, regional and local regulations.

• Ability to contribute and influence key commercial and contracting decisions.

• Strong management and organizational skills.

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to partner with colleagues at all levels.

• Collaborative spirit and problem prevention and problem solving skills.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to provide guidance that is sensitive both to legal and business perspectives.

• Implacable curiosity.

• Spoken and written English and Spanish.

• Ability to learn and adapt quickly.

• Willingness to work independently with minimal supervision.

• Ability to take initiative and prioritize tasks.

Amazing if:

• Previous experience in regional tech companies or deals.

• Fluent in Portuguese

Our process steps:

At Belvo, every hire is so important to us that we make the decision to hire as a team.

• People team chat

• Take-home challenge

• Challenge presentation

• Team fit chat

• Meet the founders

Our perks:

🚀 Stock options (we are all owners, and this is very important to us)

📈 Annual company bonus linked to company performance

🔆 Flexible working hours

🔝 Remote friendly

🐶 Pet friendly

🧘🏾‍♀️ Access to mental health service

👩🏻‍⚕️ Health Insurance

🎊 Paid time off on your birthday

🌎 Work from any office

💻 Renew your laptop every 3 years

🙋 Training Budget

😎 Team building events

🙀 Bank holidays swap inside the same month

🔋 Fitness/ wellness stipends

🚀 Yearly offsite

🍒 Fresh fruit every week, all-you-can-drink tea and coffee

🏝 Extra days off when completing the company anniversary