Commercial Counsel, Tech Transactions

Overview

About Stripe 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.

Who we are

About Stripe 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.

About The Team Stripe’s TOPS Legal team (Tech, Ops & Partnerships) is responsible for structuring and negotiating engagements with Stripe’s global professional services providers, technology partners, and operational vendors. We work on complex and business-critical transactions and cross-functional projects, always striving to enable the business’s ambitious roadmap while upholding Stripe’s compliance practices. In this role, you’ll be a subject matter expert and key advisor on a range of construction, design, and workplace support transactions to support Stripe’s rapidly expanding global office footprint.

You’ll move with urgency, effectively advising clients with a pro-business perspective, to support their strategic objectives.

What you’ll do

The ideal candidate is passionate about Stripe’s mission of helping businesses grow and thrives in solving complex legal, technology, and business issues in collaboration with others. We’re looking for someone who is a team player and willing to jump in on tasks of any size. Experience in fintech is helpful, but not required, for you to be successful in this role.

• Draft, review, and negotiate enterprise agreements for SaaS, software, AI tools, on-prem infrastructure, hardware, data feeds, consulting services, and technology-focused managed services.

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders on legal and technology licensing issues. Partner closely with key client group Corporate Technology (Corp Tech) and a range of product technology groups.

• Collaborate and build efficiencies with talented teams across Stripe, including Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Deal Management, Product Legal, Privacy Legal, Regulatory Legal, Intellectual Property, Security, Tax, Finance & Strategy, and Third Party Risk Management.

• Develop and implement continuous improvement of tools, processes, training, and playbooks to help manage high-volume work streams and educate internal and external counsel.

• Ensure Stripe’s commercial relationships comply with applicable law, Stripe’s data privacy and security policies, global privacy regulations, and global outsourced services guidelines.

• Identify and evaluate business and legal risks, and find creative ways to mitigate them while achieving business goals.

• Effectively distill and explain complex issues in a meaningful and effective way to a variety of cross-functional stakeholders.

• Be able to prioritize workloads and competing priorities with skillful multitasking.

• Spot issues, develop solutions, and counsel teams on issues relating to data protection and privacy regulations, intellectual property, risk management, compliance, and cybersecurity.

• Act as a responsive point of escalation for outside counsel.

Who you are

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.

Minimum Requirements

• 6-8+ years of relevant legal experience working at a law firm and/or in-house legal department supporting technology transactions, including 3+ years…