Global Partnerships Counsel

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

Stripe’s Global Partnerships Counsel team sets the legal strategy for Stripe’s critical partner ecosystem. We are the primary legal and strategic advisors for the financial institutions, payment networks, and technology partners that power Stripe’s products. We don't just close deals; we build and scale the enterprise-wide legal framework for these relationships, enabling our products to grow. We work on some of the hardest technical, commercial, and regulatory problems and are looking for a partnerships and business development lawyer to join our team, focusing on partnerships in the Americas region.

In this role, you will be a key advisor to Stripe’s partnerships and product teams, working on a diverse set of transactions and relationships that involve financial services, business processes, and technology. The ideal candidate is passionate about Stripe’s mission and a creative, persuasive, and practical problem-solver. 

Stripe operates within a complex global partnership environment. We are seeking someone comfortable leading deal work for highly regulated and complicated products and who is willing to take on tasks of any size. While experience in financial technology, payments, financial services, and a working understanding of financial services regulations is a plus, it is not required.

• Counsel Stripe's global partnerships teams to help build and grow relationships with financial institutions, payment methods, card networks, and technology and commerce partners.
• Collaborate with Stripe’s payments, treasury, product, and engineering teams to structure, draft, and negotiate key infrastructure deals with financial and technology partners and to manage existing partner relationships.
• Coordinate with a wide variety of teams, including product, engineering, compliance, risk, privacy, and marketing, to ensure the deals support Stripe’s current and future product development.
• Scale deals and the products they support by helping to draft, review, and update foundational documents for partners, which includes the application of payment network rules, regulations, and contractual commitments.
• Stay up-to-date on laws and regulations related to privacy, data security, consumer protection, financial services, and marketing, with the support of Stripe’s legal subject matter experts.
• Serve as a proactive business partner to senior leaders and build relationships as a trusted advisor.
• Manage outside counsel across multiple jurisdictions to ensure timely and knowledgeable support of critical deals.

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

• 7+ years of experience as a qualified lawyer in a law firm and/or in-house legal team, preferably working with financial institutions or technology companies on high-value, strategic transactions.
• Strong negotiating and drafting skills with an ability to identify and communicate practical, risk-based solutions as the lead negotiator and drafter of business-critical agreements.
• Broad legal knowledge that enables you to identify and resolve a variety of legal issues in transactions across multiple jurisdictions (e.g., contract, financial services regulatory, IP, privacy, consumer protection).
• Experience counseling product teams, technical teams, and other non-lawyers on deal structure and its application to their team's goals.
• A passion for technology and the ability to quickly understand complex business models and product use cases.
• A qualified U.S. lawyer. 
• Excellent judgment, oral and written English-language communication skills, project management abilities, and the capacity to juggle competing priorities under tight deadlines.