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 Cash App’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 motivated, 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 to non-lawyers in brief, clear language. You are can 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 a positive attitude to 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 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
Sound, practical business judgment, and creativity solving problems
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 buy now pay later or lending products in a FinTech environment.