Product and Commercial Counsel

Forage is building the modern payments stack that powers inclusive commerce. Our technology enables grocers, delivery platforms, and point-of-sale systems to seamlessly accept EBT payments both online and in-store. Beyond infrastructure, we’re helping SNAP EBT shoppers stretch their grocery budgets every week, making healthy food more affordable and accessible to the 42 million Americans on food assistance.

Backed by leading fintech investors, Forage is a fast-growing startup with a clear vision and real-world impact, feeding tens of thousands of families daily. Our team is made up of kind, driven individuals who take ownership, move quickly, and collaborate closely. We value humility, curiosity, and a shared commitment to making a difference.

You could work anywhere — so why Forage?

• Build tech  a direct role in putting food on the tables of millions of families, and help make grocery access more equitable through better payments infrastructure.

• Join a rocket ship with purpose.

We’ve grown revenue 100x in two years, with the capital, traction, and runway to keep going — all while staying mission-first.

• Work with exceptional people.

Collaborate daily with ‘Foragers’ from companies like Stripe, Instacart, Google, Affir m, Uber, and beyond — a tight-knit team with deep experience and low ego.

• Disrupt a massive market.

Help modernize a $100B+ system and shape the future of inclusive commerce as we scale toward a $1B+ business.

• Accelerate your career.

Thrive in a talent-dense environment backed by top investors in fintech (like Nyca, Pay Pal Ventures, and more), where ownership and growth are the norm.

Why this role matters

Every partnership that helps a SNAP family buy groceries — every merchant integration, vendor contract, and product launch — begins with a contract, includes built in growth opportunity and impact, and ends with trust.

At Forage, those contracts aren’t just paperwork. They’re how we make impact real. When a creative, well-structured partnership comes together, it expands opportunity for families, merchants, and entire communities. But should a negotiation drag or a deal be misframed, it delays access to food for millions of Americans.

Forage is a mission-driven fintech building the payments infrastructure that powers inclusive commerce. We enable grocers, delivery platforms, and point-of-sale systems to accept SNAP EBT payments online and in-store — and we’re expanding into new benefit domains such as HSA/FSA and other public-purpose financial rails.

To support this growth, we’re building a lean, high-impact Legal, Policy & Partnerships (LPP) team — currently two people:

• Klay Fennell, the Head of Legal, Policy & Partnerships, whose primary focus is government, regulatory, and external affairs.

• You, the Commercial Counsel, who will own Forage’s commercial contracting and operational legal work — ensuring our partnerships move quickly, strategically, and in alignment with our mission.

This is not an ordinary legal role - you are a driver of growth and impact. You’ll have an opportunity to help design and execute the legal and commercial foundation of a company whose work directly affects how America feeds its families.

What you’ll do

• Structure, draft, and negotiate commercial agreements that drive Forage’s growth — merchant and platform partnerships, SaaS and licensing deals, vendor and technology contracts, NDAs, and payment-processing arrangements.

• Collaborate across every function — Business Development, Product, Engineering, Technical Operations, Merchant Operations, and Leadership — to remove friction, accelerate deals, and balance opportunity with protection.

• Design scalable, lightweight systems — templates, playbooks, and workflows that enable speed and consistency without bureaucracy.

• Exercise judgment over perfection: focus on progress, clarity, and outcomes that matter most to the business and its mission.

• Support compliance and policy alignment in partnership with the Head of LPP, ensuring all contracts anticipate evolving SNAP, EBT, payments, and fintech regulations.

• Represent Forage externally with counter parties, outside counsel, and industry collaborators,…