Description:
We are looking for a Counsel – Payments & Credit Cards to join remote-first team and take a lead role supporting our fast-moving credit card business. As a member of our awesome and lean legal team, you will work with our General Counsel and Assistant Head of Legal and be expected to accelerate our velocity by engaging with the business to efficiently and proactively identify ways to increase opportunity, mitigate risk, and eliminate legal blockers. This role will focus on payments, credit and credit card specific work, but also have opportunities to work cross-functionally to drive growth in our core products and business while enhancing our strategic goals and vision working collaboratively across teams. You can expect interesting and innovative problem-solving opportunities. You will also find a welcoming and well-rounded team who are interested in working in a supportive and forthright atmosphere.About the Role
Working with our team, you will:
- Act as a partner to internal business teams on a variety of practice areas including, among other things, agreements, compliance, privacy, security, marketing, and financial regulations
- Provide strong technical and commercial excellence to identify legal risk and find innovative solutions to any issues as they arise
- Become a subject matter expert on the credit card program and relevant statutes and regulations, e.g. Reg. Z and FCRA
- Lead work designing and delivering cutting edge compliance Collaborate to manage external counsel
- Build trust and collaborate directly and regularly with business stakeholders
- Stay apprised of relevant regulatory development and work with our government affairs team.
- Note, Thisthis is a role with room to grow with the business.
- JD degree & current admission
- 6+ years of relevant legal experience at a law firm or in-house (with at least 2 years consecutively within one of your recent roles preferred)
- Regulatory counseling experience, ideally with credit card or payments focus
- Experience with a fast-growing startup environment preferred
- Ability to proactively, efficiently, and accurately assess and communicate legal business risks in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with any of the following is worth noting when you apply: Financial regulation, payments/credit cards, ADR, marketing compliance, IP, or data privacy/security.
- Track record of creative problem-solving and creation of strong and trusted cross-functional relationships
- Proactive personality and eagerness to dig in and learn about the business, the industry, and new areas of the law and applicable regulations
- Interested in becoming a subject matter expert
- Willing to lean in cross-functionally to drive business growth
- Our team brings a product focused mindset with an eye towards collaborative, integrated problem solving. Experience working with product, marketing, data, and engineering teams to provide actionable counsel or with any form of technology team either as a lawyer or in other career phases is likely to be helpful.
