Regulatory Counsel, Stripe
EMEA
£104-156k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£104-156k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 5+ years experience practicing as a qualified lawyer in the UK or Ireland, with a focus on European payments and e-money regulation
- Excellent skills in issue spotting, risk assessment, and problem-solving, particularly in ambiguous and/or complex situations
- Strong strategic thinking capabilities to enable business partners to make decisions that are grounded in a practical application of the law, technology, and business goals
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Integrity and sound judgment
- Ability to provide difficult and complex legal advice in a clear and convincing manner to various stakeholders, including senior management
- Capable of multitasking and working effectively and independently under pressure
- Able to make sound decisions in the face of complexity, ambiguity and imperfect information
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build consensus across myriad groups
- A collaborative team player who is willing to pitch in wherever needed in a dynamic, rapidly growing company
Desirable
- Experience in advising on financial regulation pertaining to money movement, crypto, operational resilience, consumer and/or credit is particularly advantageous
- Genuine interest in payments, fintech and innovative financial products
- Understanding of Interchange Fee Regulations, Cross Border Payment Regulations, DORA, Consumer Duty, Money Laundering Directives
- Prior experience in payments, fintech, banking, or securities industries and familiarity with associated regulatory issues
- Experience of working closely with financial regulators - whether as a regulator, within a regulated firm or advising regulated clients
What the job involves
- The EMEA Regulatory Legal team is a team of legal counsel based in Ireland and the UK responsible for providing strategic guidance on Stripe’s financial regulatory obligations in EMEA
- As a member of the team, you will tackle a diverse range of cutting-edge financial regulatory challenges on a daily basis
- You will have the chance to influence new product development, interact with regulatory authorities shaping our industry, and help define Stripe’s policy positions
- This is a full-time role for a candidate based in either the UK or Ireland (based in office or remote) and will report to the Head of EMEA Regulatory Legal
- Advise internal stakeholders on a wide range of regulatory issues across EMEA
- Counsel Product Legal and Compliance teams on regulatory requirements for Stripe products to enable compliant product development and expansion
- Be a proactive partner and trusted advisor to cross-functional teams in EMEA
- Monitor developments in EMEA financial regulations to provide proactive guidance on regulatory trends, risks, and opportunities
- Advise on advocacy in connection with contemplated and proposed laws, rules, and regulations
- Collaborate with business and legal teams across Stripe to address regulatory issues efficiently
- Identify and evaluate business and legal risks, and find creative ways to mitigate them while achieving business goals
- Develop and work with stakeholders on regulatory engagement strategies
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
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Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
- Gym membership 🇬🇧
- Food provided in the office 🇬🇧
Company values
- Built for builders - The best reason to work at Stripe is that you will have colleagues who support and challenge you to do the best work of your career. We combine a big-picture mindset with obsessive attention to the details, down to the last pixel, API parameter, and word.
- An environment of growth - We care about results more than CVs. We value managers who remain experts while developing talent and designing successful orgs. You can also have a big impact and advance far without managing anyone. We want you to take what you’ve been hired to do, and show us how it’s done – you might create something we never would have imagined. We have had account managers start a publishing arm, interns who have run business units, and hackathon participants who have built company-defining products.
- Fast-paced, detail oriented - We balance innovation with scrupulous attention to every bit and byte involved in the movement of money – because we can’t do our job well unless we do both. When we started, we emailed every API error to everyone at the company. Now, we have more than 250 million API requests a day – and we still care about each one.
- Voraciously curious - We wish there was a book that described what we need to do next (we’d even publish it), but since there isn’t, we all have to write it together. You will need to find answers to questions you’ve never been asked before. Sometimes, you will be the first person ever to contemplate a particular problem. We want people who devour books for fun and approach new challenges with eager curiosity.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(Content Strategist)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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