Commercial Counsel, Bridge
"What You'll Be Doing"
About This Role
Stripe is looking for an exceptional transactional lawyer to join its commercial legal team supporting Bridge and Stripe's fast-growing stablecoin business.
What You'll Be Doing
Support Bridge's commercial team by leading negotiations for complex and strategic user and partner agreements.
Advise on commercial and legal issues arising from stablecoin products, new product launches, and international expansion.
Work closely with Product Legal and Bridge's product and engineering teams to bring new products and features to market.
Help build Bridge's commercial legal infrastructure to support efficient scaling, including drafting and maintaining agreements and playbooks, improving internal processes, and using AI tooling to optimize work with clients, partners, and users.
Partner with teams across Bridge and Stripe globally, including commercial, operations, product, engineering, tax, compliance, and risk.
Help the team provide practical, scalable legal support while collaborating across a global Commercial Legal team.
Develop and deliver training and resources to help Bridge's commercial team sell and support its products.
Serve as a point of escalation for outside counsel.
What We're Looking For
Intellectual curiosity and creative problem-solving ability, given the complexity and fast pace of Bridge's products and the stablecoin industry.
A self-starter mindset with a bias for action and strong sense of ownership.
Clear, concise communication skills, written and verbal, with the ability to distill key risks and explain complex, nuanced issues simply.
Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to guide cross-functional teams toward win-win solutions.
Familiarity with the legal issues and commercial risks arising from fintech, stablecoin, hosted data, and technology services.
A team-player attitude and willingness to contribute to collective success.
Good standing membership in at least one US state bar, with a JD degree or foreign equivalent.
8+ years of relevant experience in-house or in a technology practice group at a top law firm.
Bonus Points
Experience working in payments, fintech, crypto, or stablecoin businesses, with knowledge of associated regulatory issues.
In-house experience advising high-growth companies.
Working knowledge of LLM tools.
Experience improving legal processes with AI technology.
Working knowledge of data protection laws such as CCPA, GDPR, and HIPAA.
Ready to Apply?
To submit your application for this position, please visit Stripe's official website and follow their application process.