Company Description
Tradeweb is a global leader in electronic trading across asset classes. As financial markets become increasingly interconnected, our technology enables efficient, multi-asset trading on a global scale. We serve more than 3,000 clients in more than 85 countries, including many of the world's largest banks, asset managers, hedge funds, insurers, corporations, and wealth managers.
Creative collaboration and sharp client focus have helped fuel our organic growth. We facilitated average daily trading volume (ADV) of more than $2.8 trillion over the past four fiscal quarters, topping $3.3 trillion in ADV for the first quarter of 2026.
Since our IPO in 2019, Tradeweb has completed four acquisitions and doubled our revenues - and 2025 was our 26th consecutive year of record revenues.
Tradeweb plays a central role in modernizing market structure by developing innovative trading protocols, embedding analytics into execution, and building technology infrastructure that supports the convergence of traditional and digitally native financial markets. Tradeweb is a great place to work, recognized in 2025 by Forbes as one of America's Best Companies and by U.S. News & World Report as one of the Best Financial Services Companies to Work For .
Group Details
Tradeweb is seeking an experienced Legal Contract Negotiator to join a small but growing team responsible for reviewing, negotiating, drafting and managing a broad range of vendor agreements, such as licensing, event, technology and professional services agreements. The vendor contract negotiation team is part of the broader Tradeweb legal team based in New York, London and Singapore, and reports directly to Senior Corporate Counsel located in New York.
As a Legal Contract Negotiator, you will partner closely with a variety of internal stakeholders across the organization, including global teams within Technology, Cybersecurity, Marketing, Market Data and HR, to help develop, execute and support Tradeweb's vendor procurement workflows. The ideal candidate is someone who is organized, pays close attention to detail, is adept at prioritizing and managing competing interests, has excellent communication skills and is able to operate autonomously while being a team player when working with the legal team and internal business partners.
Job Responsibilities
• Vendor-facing contract review, redlining, drafting (with attorney support) and negotiation of a wide range of commercial contracts, including SaaS agreements, event contracts, data licenses and other related agreements.
• Communicate with internal stakeholders about contracts that are in progress and executed contracts, advise on contract process, and provide status updates.
• Foster positive relationships with internal stakeholders, vendor legal departments or other similar third parties, to build relationships, find solutions and best represent Tradeweb's business interests.
• Assist in maintaining our vendor contract repository, including managing the contracting process (both within a contract management application and offline), reporting on key terms, developing and iterating on form documentation, and managing contract data.
• Contribute to legal team's overall efforts to drive the continuous improvement of internal processes and procedures by identifying efficiencies and simplifying workflows.
• Develop expertise in the contract lifecycle management system used to track requests and store contracts/amendments.
• Assist with the development and improvement of existing processes, including updating or creating standard form templates, contract playbooks and guidelines, escalation processes, procurement training and tools, and FAQs.
Qualifications
• 2-3 years of relevant experience in an in-house legal department
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required
• Qualified lawyers considered, but not necessary
• Strong experience with reviewing, analyzing, drafting, communicating, and negotiating commercial agreements
• Experience with documentation related to UK and EU regulatory frameworks relevant to data protection, third-party risk and operational resilience, including the UK GDPR, EU GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018 and DORA (e.g., data privacy agreements)
• Passionate about building and maintaining collaborative relationships with internal business partners and stakeholders across internal teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the skill to explain legal issues to internal business partners clearly and pragmatically and effectively counsel internal business partners by providing clear and concise advice and creative solutions to meet business needs.
- Able to take ownership of matters independently, with appropriate supervision from senior team members.
Additional Information
We offer a comprehensive range of benefits to support our employees at every stage of life and career. Our programs include enhanced parental leave, family-building and postpartum support through Maven, subsidized gym membership and a wide range of learning and development opportunities, to name a few! While specific offerings may vary by location, our teams will be happy to provide more detailed information about the benefits available in your region as you move through the recruitment process.
