Sr Legal Counsel

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The Company
PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.
We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.
We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards. Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade.
Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.
Job Description Summary:
What you need to know about the role PayPal’s Legal team is looking for a highly engaged and dynamic lawyer to serve as Senior Legal Counsel for a line of business that is looking to expand wallet functionality and reach through a cross-functional team of high performers, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders that are focused on driving innovation. The Senior Legal Counsel will play a key role in helping this mission and will provide legal guidance and support in connection with the design and development of wallet related functionalities and services.
Job Description:
Meet our team
Working in the Singapore legal team and reporting offshore to a Senior Director in the US, you will have the opportunity to work in a matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders. PayPal is a global company and the successful candidate will need to have flexibility to work with and occasionally accommodate colleagues in different time zones (particularly the United States).
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.**
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Our Benefits:
At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.
We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit We Are:
To learn more about our culture and community visit to Diversity and Inclusion
PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at
Belonging at PayPal:
Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.
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We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don’t hesitate to apply.
REQ ID R Seniority level

• Seniority level Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Legal
• Industries Software Development, Financial Services, and Technology, Information and Internet

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