Product Counsel, Payments
Product counsel advising Stripe's Payments and Terminal teams on regulatory, privacy, IP, and commercialization issues. Requires 5+ years legal experience in tech/regulatory matters, strong judgment, and collaboration skills; fintech/payments background preferred.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Serve as product counsel to Stripe’s Payments and Terminal product teams, helping to expand product offerings and developing deep subject matter expertise to handle escalations and questions related to Stripe Terminal products and services.
- Counsel the Stripe product team on issues including payments regulations, payment schemes rules, consumer protection, marketing, intellectual property, and data privacy.
- Actively collaborate with engineering, compliance, business development, and marketing teams on issues related to product development and commercialization.
- Work closely with colleagues across the Stripe legal team to clear key issues impacting regulatory structure, customer agreements, and strategic financial partnerships.
- Help build scalable and effective processes for legal review and launch of new products.
- Draft, review, and update foundational documents for product and service offerings.
- Stay up-to-date on U.S. and international laws and regulations dealing with privacy, data security, consumer protection, financial services, and marketing.
- Participate as a proactive business partner to senior managers and build trusted advisor relationships.
Minimum Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a qualified lawyer working on complex regulatory or technology matters, preferably with technology companies on the legal and regulatory aspects of product development.
- Passion for technology and ability to understand complex business models and product use cases quickly.
- Strong communication (written and verbal) and project management skills with strict attention to detail.
- Excellent project management skills and ability to work under tight deadlines.
- Excellent judgment and ability to make smart decisions in the face of ambiguity and imperfect information.
Preferred Qualifications
- Relevant experience in financial technology, risk, payments, and financial services, and a working understanding of financial regulations and rules.
- Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts (background in hardware, supply chain, and transportation/logistics agreements is preferred).
Skills
Payments Regulations, Consumer Protection, Data Privacy, Intellectual Property, Financial Services Regulations, Contract Negotiation, Project Management
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