# Product Counsel, Payments

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Legal
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Legal Counsel, Regulatory Compliance, Data Privacy, Intellectual Property, Contract Drafting, Product Development, Financial Services Regulations, Consumer Protection, Project Management, Risk Management
**Posted:** 2026-05-20

> Serve as product counsel for Stripe Terminal, advising on regulatory, privacy, IP, and commercialization issues while partnering with engineering, compliance, and marketing teams. Requires 6+ years of legal experience in tech or complex regulatory matters.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Serve as product counsel for the Stripe Terminal team, helping to expand product offerings.
- Counsel the Stripe product team on regulatory, consumer protection, marketing, intellectual property, and data privacy issues.
- Collaborate with engineering, compliance, business development, and marketing teams on product development and commercialization.
- Work with legal team colleagues to clear issues impacting regulatory structure, customer agreements, and strategic financial partnerships.
- Build scalable processes for legal review and launch of new products.
- Draft, review, and update foundational documents for product and service offerings.
- Stay current on U.S. and international laws regarding privacy, data security, consumer protection, financial services, and marketing.
- Partner with senior managers as a trusted advisor.
- Develop deep subject matter expertise in Stripe Terminal products and serve as legal point of contact for escalations.

## Requirements
- 6+ years as a qualified lawyer working on complex regulatory or technology matters, preferably with technology companies on product development.
- Passion for technology and ability to understand complex business models and product use cases quickly.
- Strong written and verbal communication and project management skills with strict attention to detail.
- Excellent judgment and ability to make smart decisions under ambiguity and imperfect information.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in financial technology, risk, payments, and financial services with working knowledge of financial regulations.
- Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts (hardware, supply chain, and transportation/logistics agreements preferred).

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