Product Counsel

Summary

Join Stripe's Product Legal team as a Product Lawyer specializing in Stripe Connect, our largest payments product. You will be a key advisor, working on diverse issues across payments, money movement, product development, and innovative technology. This role involves counseling product teams, collaborating with various Stripe teams, and helping build scalable legal processes. You will advise on legal and regulatory developments impacting card products and act as a strategic business partner to senior managers. The ideal candidate is passionate about helping businesses grow and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a qualified lawyer in a top law firm, in-house legal team and/or government agency, with expertise in cards, small business lending, and capital markets and the related regulatory landscape
• A JD degree (or local equivalent) and membership in at least one U.S. state bar
• Strong understanding of the U.S. card issuing and payments industry, including prepaid cards, debit cards, credit cards
• Relevant experience on legal issues impacting financial services and technology products, such as money transmission, privacy, consumer protection, and commercial and consumer lending
• Experience with drafting and negotiating complex partnership and/or technology deals, preferably in the financial services industry (e.g., payments, card networks, credit and/or debit cards)
• Familiarity with counseling teams that solve issues through technology by translating complex legal requirements into clear and actionable advice that helps the business move forward
• An entrepreneurial spirit: a self-starter who thrives in a fast paced environment, deals well with ambiguity and focuses on driving impact
• Excellent judgment and capable of making smart decisions with imperfect information
• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Excellent project management skills and ability to work under tight deadlines

Responsibilities

• Be part of a growing team of counsel who are responsible for helping Stripe deliver banking-as-a-service products across the globe, including credit and debit card products
• Counsel Stripe Issuing product teams operating at the cutting edge intersection of technological innovation, e-commerce user experiences, and financial services compliance on a range of issues including payments, regulatory, card network rules, GTM and monetization, consumer protection, marketing, and data privacy
• Actively collaborate with a wide variety of Stripe teams, including product, engineering, partnerships, compliance, risk, and marketing, on a range of issues related to product development and commercialization
• Work closely with colleagues across Stripe’s global legal team to support Stripe's regulatory structure, its customer agreements, and strategic financial partnerships
• Help scope and build scalable and effective processes for legal review and launch of new products
• Advise on new and emerging legal and regulatory developments impacting card products, and identifying trends and potential impacts on business activities and adapting existing laws to new technologies
• Participate as a proactive and strategic business partner to senior managers and be a trusted advisor

Preferred Qualifications

Broad experience in financial technology, payments and money transmission, and experience with developer platforms and internet tech