Open Financial Technologies - Senior Manager - Legal

- Ability to handle a function independently: You have to be confident about scoping out your work, holding yourself accountable, and being comfortable taking judgment calls.

- Empathetic manager: Over time, you will lead a team and great managerial skills are a must. At Open, we take job satisfaction seriously, and it will be your job to ensure that your team are not only good with their work but are also happy while doing it.

- Attention to detail and practicality: Our contracts need to be carefully drafted so that they are easy to comprehend and fair to all parties so that we cut down on negotiation time without compromising our interests.

- Good negotiator: You will need to negotiate our relationships with large numbers of external partners, which means having a keen sense of fairness and great interpersonal skills.

- Relentlessness: Closing partnerships means you will have to track tasks well and be unafraid to follow up.

- Automation and process orientation: Open's business requires achieving great scale with high efficiency. The only way to do this from a legal and partnerships standpoint is to automate tasks, use electronic contracting, and reduce paperwork. You will need to have a strong focus on processes and their continuous improvement, to pare lead time to the absolute minimum.

- Comfortable with technology and technical jargon: While you don't have to be an engineer, you must be unafraid of technical detail. We are a tech company, and this means having to understand (at a reasonable level of detail) how our products work because that is the only way to ensure in turn that our contracts work.