Regulatory Counsel

<h2><strong>Who we are</strong></h2> <h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <h3><strong>About the team</strong></h3> <p>The North America Regulatory Legal team is a team of regulatory specialists within Stripe’s Legal function responsible for providing strategic and practical financial regulatory advice to enable Stripe’s mission of helping businesses to grow and thrive. We work on some of the hardest regulatory problems around, and are looking for a seasoned counsel with experience advising on U.S. and Canadian payments, money transmission, and banking laws to join our team. In this role, you will be a key advisor on those topics to our compliance, policy, product, engineering, finance, and partnerships teams, as well as fellow legal counsel, including in the context of supporting new product development, engaging with Stripe’s regulators, and shaping Stripe’s positions on regulatory developments. As part of our team, you will have a unique opportunity to daily explore the intersection of technology and regulation, shape the development of new financial technologies, and manage Stripe’s regulatory posture in the United States. </p> <h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2> <p>The ideal candidate is passionate about Stripe’s mission; thrives on solving complex legal, technology, and business issues; is interested in building for the future rather than just answering the questions asked; and is comfortable advising on challenging regulatory structures in the face of ambiguity and imperfect information. We’re also looking for someone who is a team player and willing to jump in on tasks of any size. Experience in financial technology, payments, and financial services will help you be successful in this role. </p> <p>Join us and work with a great team to solve hard problems in a fast-moving environment!</p> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Provide regulatory advice and support to Stripe’s compliance, policy, product, engineering, finance, and partnerships teams on issues related to payments, money transmission, lending, and banking laws</li> <li>Actively collaborate with a wide variety of teams at Stripe, including product, engineering, partnerships, compliance, finance, and marketing, on a range of issues related to market expansion, regulatory compliance, and product development</li> <li>Conduct legal research into high value regulatory topics, identifying and evaluating business and legal risks, and finding creative ways to mitigate them while achieving business goals</li> <li>Stay up-to-date on U.S. and Canadian financial regulations to provide proactive guidance on regulatory trends, risks, and opportunities</li> <li>Partner with Stripe’s Policy team to promote a regulatory environment that supports responsible financial innovation</li> <li>Represent Stripe before state and federal agencies, examiners, banking partners, and other external audiences</li> <li>Draft and advise on policies, procedures, processes, systems, governance, and internal controls for a regulatory compliance program, to ensure licensing commitments and legal conditions are met</li> <li>Contribute to licensin ... (truncated, view full listing at source)