Product Counsel, Data Products

Stripe

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About The Position

Stripe’s Product Legal team advises on the legal and regulatory aspects of designing, building, and delivering Stripe products and services. The Product Counsel, Data Products will advise global product teams on legal issues related to adopting artificial intelligence across Stripe’s business, including data protection and privacy, consumer protection, and product development. The role partners closely with product, engineering, partnerships, privacy, and security teams to provide pragmatic legal guidance throughout the product development lifecycle, from initial scoping through launch.

The position also involves drafting and maintaining foundational terms and documents for Stripe products and services; monitoring laws, regulations, and industry trends concerning consumer financial data access; and proactively advising on potential product impacts. The successful candidate will act as a trusted business partner, contributing legal and strategic input to Stripe’s product roadmap and strategy in a complex global legal, regulatory, and financial-partnership environment.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of demonstrated experience as a qualified lawyer at a top law firm or in-house legal team, working with technology companies on legal and regulatory aspects of technology product development.
• Passion for technology and ability to quickly understand complex operational and business models and multiple product use cases.
• Ability to self-start and learn, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and efficiently manage multiple workstreams and priorities.
• Strong judgment and an owner’s mindset, including the ability to make principled, business-enabling decisions in ambiguous and fast-moving environments with incomplete information.
• Strong communication and relationship skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across functions and with a sense of urgency.
• Excellent project management and organizational skills, including the ability to manage shifting priorities and tight deadlines.
• Expertise in the legal, commercial, and regulatory dynamics of AI and technology services, including knowledge of global data privacy regimes such as GDPR and CCPA.
• Strategic thinking and the ability to help business partners make decisions that practically apply the law, technology, and business goals.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with the law applicable to cloud-based API service providers.

Responsibilities

• Advise global product teams on legal issues related to adopting artificial intelligence across Stripe’s business, including data protection and privacy, consumer protection, and product development.
• Collaborate with engineering, partnerships, privacy, security, and other teams to provide practical legal advice throughout the product development lifecycle, from initial scoping through launch.
• Draft, review, and update internal and external foundational terms and documents for Stripe products and services.
• Monitor laws, regulatory updates, and industry trends concerning consumer financial data access, and proactively advise clients on potential product impacts.
• Build trusted-advisor relationships with product teams and provide legal and strategic business input on Stripe’s product roadmap and strategy.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree