# Commercial Counsel

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Legal
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Jd, Contract Negotiation, Commercial Law, Technology Law, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Legal Process Improvement, AI Tools, Llm Tools, CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, Fintech, Payments
**Posted:** 2026-06-12

> Provide commercial legal support to AMER Sales, lead complex contract negotiations, advise on product launches and expansions, and help scale Stripe's legal infrastructure with AI tooling.

## Job Description

## 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

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