Job Description

As Product Counsel for our Cash App Investing you’ll have a broad range of responsibilities providing legal guidance on product development for our FINRA registered broker-dealer, Cash App Investing, which offers stock & ETF trading to our customers. You will report to Cash App’s Head of Product Counsel and partner with our product teams to develop new technologies while managing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance. As we expand our offerings, your ideas, and contributions will make an immediate impact. 

You are highly motivated, organized, and creative. You are curious, with a desire to understand underlying causes and motivations. You are able to research and master complex legal topics and communicate them to non-lawyers in brief, clear language. You are capable of an expert understanding of a legal issue but can separate the practical from the academic and provide clear, accurate, and actionable advice to the business team. You are good-humored, patient, respectful to your co-workers, and bring a positive attitude in the office. 

You Will:

• Provide guidance to product and engineering teams on issues related to products and features throughout the entire product development lifecycle
• Develop trusted relationships with business partners and stay informed on key product developments
• Draft and negotiate commercial agreements affecting your products and services
• Draft terms of use, product policies, and product disclosures
• Work closely with other support teams (tax, compliance, accounting, outside counsel) to provide seamless support to business partners
• Actively 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, with a background in US broker-dealer regulation laws (FINRA and SEC broker-dealer rules and regulations)
• Familiarity with launching products and advising on the legal and regulatory aspects of product development in the technology space
• Excellent commercial negotiation and drafting skills
• Fluency translating legal advice into actionable guidance for creative products and collaborators
• Work in an evolving and growing environment that is prone to changes
• Sound, practical business judgment, and creativity solving problems
• A Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active membership in at least one state bar