Counsel, Persona
Commercial
$125-150k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Identity verification infrastructure solution
Open for applications
Identity verification infrastructure solution
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$125-150k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the ideal identity verification experience for your business and customers.
Role
Who you are
- 2 or more years of relevant legal experience
- A J.D. and active membership in at least one state bar
- Working knowledge of state, federal and international privacy laws and regulatory frameworks such as CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, BIPA, GLBA, & FCRA
- Excellent commercial negotiation and drafting skills
- Good judgment and an ability to learn quickly with minimal guidance
- Fluency translating legal advice into actionable guidance to the business teams
- Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage projects effectively
- Sound and practical business judgment, intellectual creativity, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Strong facility using software apps such as DocuSign, Google Workspace, LinkSquares, MS Office, Notion, Slack, Zoom, etc
What the job involves
- First and foremost, you will be responsible for managing and negotiating complex commercial relationships that contribute to our success, including vendor and sales contracts
- As the third attorney in the legal department reporting to the Head of Legal, your ideas and contributions will make an immediate impact
- This role will be located in our San Francisco or New York City office and you will be expected to be in the office three times per week
- Draft and negotiate commercial agreements involving the company’s products and services including vendor and sales agreements
- Work directly with the sales team to complete sales negotiations swiftly while still protecting the company
- Negotiate vendor agreements, including complex product integration agreements
- Draft, update and maintain form agreements
- Provide advice to the Post-Sales team regarding customer issues
- Provide general support as needed including on non-commercial matters, which may include assisting with drafting internal policies and implementing related processes
Our take
Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, fostering trust in online interactions and aiding in age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded, and themed to create custom-tailored flows for any use case
Businesses and governmental organizations can access Persona’s platform via an API, which supports various documents from government-issued IDs to biometrics, ensuring customers are who they claim to be. Persona’s platform also collects passive signals such as a user’s device, location, and behavioral patterns to provide a more holistic risk profile, beneficial in financial and insurance contexts
Recently, Persona partnered with Member Driven Technologies (MDT) to enhance identity verification for credit unions. This partnership enables credit unions to adjust their identity verification flows in real-time based on risk signals, improving user conversion and fraud deterrence. The collaboration aims to streamline operations and strengthen fraud prevention, both digitally and in branches. Since founding, Persona has been scaling its offerings and now boasts a worldwide presence, serving clients in nearly every country and supporting 20 languages.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
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"Everyone who I have met and worked with so far have been intelligent and welcoming, and I feel like I can dive in and ask for help from anyone at..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2021
$150m
SERIES C
May 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $217.6m
Company benefits
- Professional Development
- Catered meals
- Wellness benefit
- 401(k)
- Unlimited time off
- Parental benefits
- Mental health
- Health and wellness
- Bevsday (free drink on Wednesday)
- Family planning
Company values
- People first. We will not make decisions that are good for the business but are not good for people — whether those people are our customers, their customers, or our team.
- Pursue relentlessly high standards. We hold ourselves to a high bar today and a higher one tomorrow. While we celebrate our wins, we constantly strive to raise the bar.
- Lead by serving. We share early and often to push our work forward, creating a space where it’s ok to ask questions and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
- Work in public. We encourage collaboration and transparency, sharing early and often to push our work forward. We create a space that makes others comfortable to ask questions, share unfinished thoughts, and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
- Start small, think big. Starting small allows us to provide value while learning lessons without losing sight of our vision.
- Speed is not a tradeoff. Speed is important, but so is quality. We strive to find ways to optimize and increase both. Going fast does not imply that our quality will suffer. Instead, it means we focus on being more efficient while continuing to operate at a high level.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Rick Song
(CEO)Bachelor's in Computer Science, Maths, Economics at Rice University. KPCB Engineering Fellow, then Engineer at Square.
Charles Yeh
(CTO)Studied Computer Science at Brown. Software Engineer at Zynga, and Technical Lead at Dropbox.
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