Commercial Counsel

Responsibilities

• Support the AMER Sales team, leading negotiations for complex and strategic agreements
• Advise on a wide range of commercial and legal issues, including launch of new products to Stripe users and support international expansions
• Work closely with Product Legal to bring new products and features to market
• Build out Stripe’s commercial legal infrastructure: draft and maintain Stripe’s agreements and playbooks, lead and contribute to projects to improve internal processes, leverage AI tooling to optimize work and collaboration
• Partner with teams across Stripe globally, including sales, operations, product, tax, risk groups, and others
• Drive scaled support and efficiency, working collaboratively in a global team to maximize the overall impact of the Commercial Legal team
• Develop and deliver training and other resources to help the Sales team sell products
• Be a point of escalation for outside counsel

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience in-house or in a technology practice group in a top law firm
• Qualified with good standing membership in at least one US state bar with a JD degree or foreign equivalent
• Intellectually curious and a creative problem solver
• Self-starter with a bias for action and strong sense of ownership
• Clear and concise communicator (written and verbal) who can distill key risks and explain complex issues in plain terms
• Natural collaborator able to guide cross-functional teams and drive to win-win solutions
• Familiar with legal issues and commercial risks in hosted data and technology services
• Team player willing to contribute to collective success

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working in payment or fintech industries and knowledge of associated regulatory issues
• In-house experience advising high growth companies
• Working knowledge on how to use LLM tools
• Experience in improving legal processes with AI technology
• Working knowledge of data protection laws such as CCPA, GDPR, and HIPAA