Sr Legal Counsel

Your way to impact

The ideal candidate will be a confident self-starter with strong interpersonal and organisational skills and a demonstrated ability to effectively and proactively provide sound legal advice, exercise good business judgment, work with senior management and negotiate deals and implement strategic initiatives on a cross-functional basis in a fast paced environment.

To succeed in this challenging role, candidates should be mature, self-motivated and well-organised with excellent communication and problem solving skills.  Candidates should also be flexible with a global outlook and collaborative working style.

The ideal candidate will:

• Have significant experience in commercial contract negotiations with experience in financial services, payments or card network rules. 

• Provide proactive, timely and business-focused legal advice on commercial transactions and contractual documents.

• Identify threshold regulatory issues that may arise from the business initiatives and bringing them for further analysis to the applicable legal subject matter expert either in-house at PayPal or external counsel. 

• Advise on the design of wallet related products and innovations, the structuring of partner deals, proactively identify associated risks and recommend mitigation strategies.

• Be responsible for briefing other legal team members of applicable product development and initiatives, maintaining records of legal advice provided over time, and for working collaboratively with members of the legal team, the compliance team and other teams to provide integrated guidance to the business.

Your day-to-day

In your day-to-day role you will:

• Have responsibility for providing legal advice to PayPal Global Markets organization.

• Have regular exposure to senior stakeholders.

• Analyze, draft and negotiate commercial agreements (marketing agreements, partnership agreements etc.)

• Work with the PayPal US, UK, EU and Asia Legal teams on strategic business initiative and key commercial deals with PayPal partners

• Partner with PayPal legal team members across our global organisation and supporting senior colleagues on a variety strategic projects and relevant regulatory issues

• Create and advise on templates, policies and procedures to address new requirements

• Provide training on relevant topics

• Manage escalations, collaborate across other teams and develop solutions to enable team and business partners to close deals. 

What do you need to bring

The successful candidate will have the following responsibilities, qualifications and experiences:

• Bachelor of Laws, Juris Doctorate or equivalent degree, with more 7 years of experience practicing in house (or in an equivalent setting) or at a top tier law firm at a Senior Associate level, with at least 2 years of those years focused on payments law, the FinTech space, or financial services and banking regulatory analysis.

• Serve as the key legal representative at product review meetings, providing legal and business clients with ongoing feedback and counseling.

• Excellent drafting, written and verbal communication skills and ability to adapt legal requirements in balanced, creative, and pragmatic ways to facilitate clear and open communication at all levels of the organization. 

• Demonstrate a highly responsive and service-oriented work ethic and effectively prioritize work and manage multiple deadlines.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with exceptional influencing, organizational, facilitation skills and communication skills, both written and verbal, with an ability to adapt communication style to a variety of stakeholders across the business.

• Experience in providing legal advice and solutions in written and collaborative oral formats, including reviewing and advising on the design and modification of business initiatives, proactively identifying associated risks in conjunction with cross-functional stakeholders, and recommending commercially viable risk reducing alternatives.

• Self-motivating and self-directing, able to independently prioritize and focus workload. A team player, comfortable working in a flexible, agile, matrixed global organization.

• Able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and to tolerate change and ambiguity.

• Confident self-starter with strong interpersonal and organizational skills and a demonstrated ability to effectively and proactively provide sound legal advice, exercise good business judgment, and work well with other attorneys, management, and cross functional stakeholders.

• Coordinate with US and international legal colleagues in support of initiatives outside of the United States.

• Team player - enthusiastic about building relationships and partnering with the business to close deals and develop the business. 

• High comfort level with a wide range of legal issues and subject matters. 

• Ability to work efficiently under pressure, juggle multiple projects with competing priorities, meet deadlines, and adapt to change in a dynamic environment. 

• Must have excellent issue identification, ranking and problem-solving skills. 

• Thrives in a demanding environment. 

**We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.**