Legal Associate
About Stitch
Stitch is a payments infrastructure company on a mission to make it easier for enterprise businesses to connect to the financial system and build better experiences for their customers.
We are expanding the team to enable Stitch to broaden our product offering and extend our geographical footprint.
The Legal Associate provides legal advice and support to the organisation. The Legal Associate drafts, reviews, and revises business related contracts, provides assistance with regulatory advisory and assists the Legal, Regulatory and Compliance team with implementing compliant policies and procedures.
Key Responsibilities
- Reviewing, negotiating, and drafting a range of commercial contracts, such as service agreements, partnership agreements, SaaS agreements and other business agreements.
- Working closely with the Revenue teams at various stages of the contracting process. This includes:
- Prepare contract summaries, stakeholder briefing documents, and risk reports.
- Advise on legal issues regarding contracts.
- Assist with contract renewals and termination.
- Communicating and negotiating with external parties (partners, external counsel, and external clients).
- Researching and advising on the relevant regulation & legal frameworks required for Stitch’s business models and products.
- Assisting with the development, implementation and maintenance of contracts, policies, guidance documents and risk-based compliance frameworks.
Requirements:
Experience:
- 2-5 years post articles experience, in a top-tier South African law firm or proven in-house experience (fintech/finreg/payments preferred)
- Strong commercial contracting across SaaS, partnerships and vendor agreements.
- Working knowledge and experience of key legislation applicable to the businesses within the Stitch Group, including the National Payment Systems Act/Bill, COFI Bill, SARB directives & exemptions, PASA frameworks, FICA, NCA, Banks Act, CPA, POPIA exposure advantageous.
Education & Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB).
- Admission as a legal practitioner / attorney.
Competencies:
- Team player - across all departments.
- Pragmatic risk judgment - calibrates risk to business context, proposes mitigations and clear trade-offs rather than “no”, has a successful track record of aligning legal priorities with organisational objectives.
- Bias to clarity and action - produces crisp, plain-language summaries and recommended paths and is comfortable making calls with imperfect information.
- Prioritisation and throughput - juggles multiple matters, sets/keeps SLAs, and escalates smartly on pre-defined triggers.
- Negotiation and stakeholder management - credible with customers and partners and balances firmness with deal momentum.
- Ownership and reliability - high agency, low ego, high bar for quality and follow-through under pressure.
Benefits & Perks
🏖️ Remote-friendly Work
We recognise and value the importance of enabling remote work and maintaining a globally distributed workforce. We cater to equitable employee experiences for both in-office and remote team members. We remain conscientious about ensuring a level playing field, especially around team events, business meeting practices, and office-driven benefits. While we facilitate remote work, we also see the value in bringing the full team together in person from time to time.
🎨 Stock Ownership*
We believe in the power of ownership. That's why every full-time team member becomes a part-owner of Stitch. Our employee stock ownership plan ensures that when the company thrives, you do too.
⏰ Time Off*
Taking time off from work is critical to ensure that you can take necessary breaks and have time for important life events outside of work. It also helps you manage your energy better. In line with this, we provide a generous annual leave policy, along with supportive family responsibility, parental, study, and long-tenure sabbatical leave options, designed to accommodate the diverse needs of our team.
📚 Learning & Development Fund*
We are committed to the professional growth of our team. Each year, we allocate $3,000 per full time team member for learning and development, supporting a culture of continuous improvement and skill enhancement.
🩺 Health Insurance Contribution*
Recognising the importance of health and well-being, we contribute to health insurance for all team members and provide group health insurance schemes in certain jurisdictions.
💻 Equipment
To ensure our team has the tools they need, new members receive a brand-new Mac laptop along with the necessary peripheral equipment upon joining Stitch.
💜 Employee Assistance Programmes
We care about the well-being of our team. Our Employee Assistance Programmes provide you with the necessary resources and support to not only excel in your job but also to thrive in your personal life. Whether it's counselling, advice, or support services, we're here to help every step of the way.
Other notable benefits and perks
Celebrations for important life and work milestones
Daily team lunches in the Cape Town office
Bi-annual work retreats
New starter dinners
Frequent team and company events
Compliance with POPIA
Our processing of your Personal Information is subject to, and in compliance with, the provisions of POPIA.
Privacy and security of your information
We will process your information only on instructions from you, which we are deemed to have received when you submit information on our website. We will maintain the confidentiality and security of such information per the standards contained in the POPIA, which requires us to adopt reasonable safeguards to protect the integrity and confidentiality of such information from unauthorized access, loss or destruction.
*these benefits are applicable for full-time staff members but may not apply for fixed-term and part-time staff
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