Clara
Clara
201 – 500 Employees
H1B Visa SponsorB2BFintech
Clara is a Latin American fintech company focused on corporate spend management for businesses. Its platform brings together locally issued corporate cards, bill payment, financing solutions, and spend management software in one offering. Clara is also known for emphasizing an inclusive company culture and has reached unicorn valuation status. For professionals exploring opportunities in B2B fintech, Clara offers a chance to work on financial products designed for companies across the region.

Senior Legal Specialist, Bogotá

Lead legal work for Clara’s Colombian fintech operations, covering regulatory compliance, financing transactions, commercial contracts, and product counseling. Partner with leadership and cross-functional teams to support Clara’s Latin American spend management platform.

Description

  • Act as a senior individual contributor within Clara’s Colombia-based Legal team
  • Manage complex regulatory matters and high-impact legal work with substantial independence
  • Provide legal guidance to company leadership and internal stakeholders
  • Oversee daily legal operations for Clara’s Colombian entity while coordinating with global LATAM standards
  • Support significant loan facilities and capital markets transactions
  • Structure and negotiate venture capital and private equity equity and debt financings
  • Manage Colombian regulatory compliance, including financial-sector rules, AML/CFT requirements, and data protection obligations
  • Oversee regulatory communications, submissions, and deadlines
  • Lead responses to administrative requests and regulatory inquiries
  • Draft, review, negotiate, and administer commercial agreements, including customer contracts, vendor agreements, NDAs, and strategic partnerships
  • Lead product-related legal negotiations with Product, Sales, and Finance
  • Partner with Product to establish the legal framework for new financial products and mitigate regulatory risk during development
  • Manage and safeguard Clara’s regional intellectual property portfolio, including trademark filings and renewals
  • Organize legal records and documentation across Google Drive, Slack, and internal systems
  • Improve legal operations with N8N and AI tools by automating contract workflows, streamlining research, and scaling delivery

Requirements

  • Colombian law degree with a current license to practice
  • At least five years of experience in corporate, commercial, financial, or fintech law
  • Strong knowledge of Colombian financial regulation, AML/CFT requirements, and consumer and data protection law
  • Demonstrated ability to negotiate complex commercial contracts and structure financial transactions
  • Background in a fast-growing fintech or technology company with a strategic, business-oriented legal approach
  • Professional working fluency in English and Spanish
  • Experience with, or a strong interest in, using AI tools to automate workflows
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to adapt effectively in a rapidly changing environment
  • Strong ownership and consistent execution in role-specific responsibilities
  • Preferred: Experience advising regulated financial institutions or payment companies in Colombia
  • Preferred: Familiarity with LATAM legal systems or cross-border financial transactions
  • Preferred: Basic Portuguese skills or willingness to learn, plus independent analytical ability with spreadsheets, SQL, or Python
  • Preferred: Basic proficiency in Portuguese or a desire to learn it

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Employee stock options through an ESOP from the first day
  • Annual budget for professional learning
  • Accelerated opportunities for career development
  • Hybrid work across the office, customer locations, and home
  • English as the working language, with Spanish and Portuguese used daily

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