Payments Product Counsel

As part of Strike’s small legal team, you will help shape the legal, product, and business strategy for a fast-growing fintech company. We’re seeking an attorney with financial services, product counseling, and/or in-house tech company experience. This cross-functional role blends product, regulatory, and commercial counsel responsibilities, and requires an autodidactic mindset to tackle legal issues in collaboration with a range of internal teams.

The ideal candidate should thrive working in a fast-paced startup environment and be excited about Strike’s mission and potential. You must be comfortable with a team-first approach in a remote work environment.

Responsibilities:

• Navigate a complex regulatory and commercial landscape to help design innovative products and services in various countries.
• Provide end-to-end product counseling on payments- and banking-related products in partnership with a range of internal teams, including Product, Business, Engineering and Data Science, Compliance, CX, Comms, and Marketing.
• Negotiate and finalize commercial agreements from a variety of domains.
• Build and improve template agreements.
• Research novel legal questions and provide clear and actionable guidance to internal clients.
• Coordinate, draft, and review written communications to regulators.
• Build processes to improve the legal team’s and the company’s operating efficiency and mitigate legal risk.

Requirements:

• Member of a US State Bar
• JD from an ABA-accredited law school
• 6+ years of relevant work experience
• Familiarity and experience with payments and banking industry legal issues and applicable requirements and regulations, including NACHA Rules, card network rules, etc.
• Experience drafting and negotiating agreements
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Keen attention to detail and organization
• Strong project management and analytical skills
• Ability to learn new software and cloud-based tools as needed

Nice-to-haves:

• 8+ years of legal work experience
• At least one of the following work experiences:
• Top law firm or state or federal clerkships
• Financial regulator at the state or federal level
• In-house legal teams at technology companies (ideally fintech)
• Experience in the cryptocurrency or payments space
• Experience working with outside counsel in international contexts
• Experience with commercial relationships relevant to fintech