Commercial Counsel, Stripe
EMEA
€121.8-182.8k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
€121.8-182.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of relevant experience as a lawyer in-house or in a technology practice group in a top law firm
- Intellectually curious and a creative problem solver—Stripe's products and our industry are complex and ever evolving—you relish learning new things and finding creative solutions to challenging problems
- A self-starter with a bias for action—you're proactive and have a strong sense of ownership
- A clear and concise communicator (in written and verbal forms), who distills the key risks and explains complex, nuanced issues in plain and simple terms
- A natural collaborator, able to guide cross-functional teams and drive to a win-win solution
- Familiar with the range of legal issues and commercial risks that arise in connection with hosted data and technology services
- A team player who is willing to do what it takes to contribute to the collective success
- High professional fluency in French and English
Desirable
- Experience working in payment or fintech industries and knowledge of associated regulatory issues
- In-house experience advising high-growth technology companies
- A working knowledge of relevant data protection and AI regulations
What the job involves
- As a core member of our Commercial Legal team, you'll have the opportunity to build strategic relationships with regional sales leaders.
- You'll act as a force multiplier, directly influencing the growth of Stripe's business in EMEA.
- We trust you to exercise independent judgement and encourage you to bring forward ideas for scaling and streamlining our contracting process.
- You'll have the opportunity to develop your legal knowledge and technical skills working at the frontier of payments and fintech innovation
- Support the EMEA sales team, leading negotiations and advising on a wide range of commercial and legal issues
- Be an integral part of the build out of Stripe's commercial legal infrastructure so that we can scale and operate efficiently at pace with Stripe's exponential growth—this work includes drafting and maintaining Stripe's agreements and playbooks, leading and contributing to projects to improve internal processes and operational efficiencies
- Work with teams across Stripe, including sales, privacy, operations, product, tax, and risk groups
- Develop and deliver training and other resources to help the Sales team sell our products
- Be a point of escalation for outside counsel
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payment option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is extending its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil, Japan and India. It is also partnering with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that is monetising OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhancing Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forward with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
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Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(CEO)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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