Description:
Job Description:As Product Counsel, you'll have a broad range of responsibilities providing legal guidance on product and feature development. You will report to A Mobile Payment Service Company's Head of Product Counsel and partner with our product teams to develop new offerings while managing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance. As we expand our offerings, your ideas and contributions will make an immediate impact.
You are organized and creative. You are curious, with a desire to understand underlying causes and motivations. You can research and master complex legal topics and communicate them with non-lawyers in brief, clear language. You can obtain an expert understanding of a legal issue but can separate the practical from the academic and provide clear, accurate, and applicable advice to the business team. You are good-humored, patient, respectful to your co-workers, and bring an enthusiasm to your role on the team.
You Will:
- Provide guidance to product and engineering teams on issues related to products and features throughout the entire product development lifecycle
- Develop trusted relationship with partners and stay informed on important product developments
- Draft and negotiate commercial agreements affecting your products and services
- Draft terms of use, product policies, and product disclosures
- Work with other support teams (tax, compliance, accounting, and outside counsel) to provide seamless support to partners
- Cultivate creative ideas and insights into how legal frameworks can support new product developments and customer experiences
Qualifications:
You Have:
- 5+ years of combined, relevant experience in law firms, governmental agencies, or in-house legal departments
- Excellent commercial negotiation and drafting skills
- Fluency translating legal advice into applicable guidance for creative products and collaborators
- Work in an evolving and growing environment that is prone to changes
- A Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active membership in at least one state bar
Even Better
- Familiarity with launching products and advising on the legal and regulatory aspects of product development in the technology space.
- Experience in financial services consumer protection laws (Regulation E) and payments / card network industry rules and regulations.
