Director, Legal Counsel - BCDC

Director, Legal Counsel - BCDC

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Pay Pal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Our network connects merchants and consumers, enabling seamless and secure transactions across the world.

Pay Pal’s Legal team seeks an experienced, dynamic lawyer to serve as Director, Legal Counsel – Blockchain, Crypto and Digital Currencies (BCDC).

• Provide strategic legal advice and support to senior management, influencing business strategy and decision making.
• Anticipate regulatory and legal risks, and proactively design strategies to manage them.
• Perform legal and regulatory compliance risk assessments, propose creative solutions, and help advance business objectives.
• Manage escalations, collaborate across teams, and develop solutions to enable business partners to achieve their goals.
• Develop strong rapport and working relationships with business counterparts across the enterprise to deliver effective legal services.
• Ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations, leading the adoption of cutting‑edge legal technologies and best practices.
• Manage legal risks and safeguard Pay Pal’s legal interests, developing forward‑looking risk management strategies.
• Provide key industry expertise and stay ahead of legal trends, influencing industry standards.

• Advising on legal implications of potential BCDC commercial transactions, new products, customer terms, vendor engagements, and marketing materials.
• Developing BCDC‑related policies, training, and toolkits.
• Addressing threshold regulatory questions regarding BCDC initiatives.
• Staying apprised of legal and regulatory developments and informing BCDC team members.
• Coordinating with international legal colleagues for BCDC initiatives outside the United States.
• Assisting the Government Relations team in evaluating and responding to notices of proposed rule making and requests for comment by regulatory agencies.
• Representing Pay Pal’s interests and interfacing with regulatory agencies, enforcement authorities, and external counsel.

• Professional experience or equivalent degree with excellent academic credentials.
• Ten or more years of experience practicing as an attorney at a regulatory agency, in‑house, or at a reputable law firm, with at least two years focused on financial technology, payment systems, digital assets, financial regulation, securities law, commodities law, banking law, or illicit finance.
• Understanding of the technological variants of digital asset ecosystems and frameworks strongly preferred.
• Team‑oriented, with strong humor, unquestioned ethics and integrity, sound judgment, and strong problem‑solving and communication skills.
• Familiarity with Pay Pal, Venmo, mobile and alternative payments, emerging payments technology, and the payments industry; international remittances a plus.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced environment, handle multiple assignments simultaneously, tolerate change and ambiguity, and take ownership of projects and tasks.
• Admitted to, and in good standing with, a state bar.

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