Product Legal Attorney – Product Payments Regulation

Job Description

Sr Legal Counsel – Checkout and PayPal | PayPal

The Tone:
This is a full-time hybrid role at PayPal, primarily located in San Jose, CA, with other hybrid locations available. PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for over 25 years, providing innovative solutions that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure for consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets. This role is crucial for providing legal and regulatory guidance as the product team develops and updates PayPal’s consumer checkout products and services across North, Central, and South America, navigating a complex legal and regulatory environment to enable business strategy and manage risk.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Hybrid
• Location: Hybrid San Jose, CA (also available in Chicago, IL; Austin, TX; New York City, NY; Scottsdale, AZ; Omaha, NE)
• Pay: $176500–$262350 yearly
• Team: Product Legal team, partnering with consumer checkout product groups and regional legal/business partners.
• Mission: Provide legal and regulatory guidance for the development, implementation, and updates of PayPal’s checkout products and services in the Americas.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Advisory: Provide clear, pragmatic, and solution-oriented legal advice to enable business strategy while managing legal risk.
• Resolution: Participate in complex problem resolution, providing expert legal advice on high-stakes issues and disputes.
• Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
• Partnership: Partner with business counterparts across the enterprise to help drive the delivery of effective legal services.
• Risk Management: Manage legal risks and safeguard PayPal’s legal interests, developing comprehensive risk management frameworks.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Juris Doctorate degree. A senior attorney with experience in payments, financial services regulation, and technology. Must be admitted to and in good standing with a state bar.
• Experience: 8-10 or more years of experience practicing either in-house or at a reputable law firm, with at least 5 of those years focused on product or regulatory counseling in the Finance or FinTech space.
• Skills: Ability to provide timely, concise, and business-focused legal advice on federal and state consumer financial laws and regulations, consumer protection laws, and data privacy laws. Ability to provide legal and regulatory guidance on product design, identify associated risks, and recommend mitigation strategies. Exceptional writing and oral communication skills, coupled with strong problem-solving and business judgment.
• Bonus: Experience advising on financial legal issues in Canada, Mexico, Central, and/or Latin America. Familiarity with and strong interest in PayPal, creating novel shopping experiences for international audiences, mobile and alternative payments, emerging payments technology, and the payments industry. Ability and drive to take ownership of projects and tasks which will often be matters of first impression.