Privacy Counsel

Stripe strives to build the best products and services helping entrepreneurs around the world to grow their businesses. We work on complex technical and legal problems every day, and we’re looking for a technical and process-minded lawyer with a love for data, technology, and privacy. In this role you will be responsible for a wide variety of commercial legal matters supporting Stripe’s growing business and will help us build for scale. Join us and you will work with a great team and have the opportunity to solve complicated problems in a fast-moving environment.

You will:

• Work across a spectrum of privacy, business, and strategic issues
• Serve as part of a team of lawyers advising on Stripe’s contractual negotiations as it relates to data protection
• Help ensure that Stripe’s commercial relationships comply with applicable privacy and data protection requirements
• Identify and evaluate business and legal risks as it relates to privacy, and find solutions to mitigate them while achieving business goals
• Draft and manage Stripe’s data protection agreements, written templates, playbooks, and processes
• Support the development of scalable contracting as it relates to privacy, and increase the efficiency and scalability of legal support
• Deliver training and help educate internal commercial legal teams and business partners
• Work closely with other members of Stripe’s legal and product teams to help develop policies and procedures to comply with privacy and data protection laws around the world

We’re looking for someone who has:

• 5+ years’ experience as a practicing lawyer working on data protection and privacy legal issues, with particular depth on European data privacy regulations and the regimes governing transfer of data between the US and other nations
• A background in software technology and a demonstrated ability to converse with software engineers with specificity and depth about the ways we collect and process data
• Worked in a technology company or in a law firm or consulting firm as product or privacy counsel
• Strong organization and project management skills with the ability to work well on both long and short-term projects
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• JD degree (or foreign equivalent) with membership in at least one US state bar

Nice to haves:

• A skilled advisor and  negotiator who can actively work with the business and commercial legal teams to engineer pragmatic solutions
• A team player who is willing to pitch in where needed in a fast-paced, growing company
• The ability to balance legal risk with the commercial needs of the business
• Decisive, and capable of making smart decisions in the face of ambiguity and imperfect information
• An exceptionally hard worker, capable of getting things done as well as strong interpersonal and people management skills
• Passionate about Stripe’s mission of helping businesses grow and thrive