Job DetailsFull-timeEstimated: $140,000 – $190,000 a year12 hours ago
Minimum qualifications:
JD degree or equivalent degree.
7 years of relevant attorney work experience.
Experience supporting or advising a payments product team.
Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g. have registered in-house status) in the state in which the role is located.
Preferred qualifications:
Knowledge of payments, consumer applications, and financial services.
Knowledge of payment industry legal issues and business practices.
Ability to navigate difficult issues and multiple stakeholders, pragmatically calibrate risk, and develop solutions in line with Google’s global principles and bold objectives.
Ability to be strategic and detail-oriented with strong analytical skills to evaluate and summarize data along with the ability to think, plan, and execute on multiple projects simultaneously with little direct supervision.
About the job
As Corporate Counsel at Google, you work on the most exciting legal issues as disruptive technological innovations require creative and proactive legal guidance. You’re part of a whip-smart group of in-house lawyers and the projects and cases you take on challenge you to think big and differently. You are collaborative – ready to partner in initiatives that influence all aspects of the business and work with Googlers from all over the company. As an integrated part of the team, you proactively assess legal risks and advise on products that will not only move information into the 21st century, but move information law forward as well.
The Consumer Payments team, as part of the broader Payments/Next Billion Users (NBU) Legal team, supports the growth and expansion of Google Pay. We support Google’s Consumer Payments initiatives, including the Google Pay App and Merchants.
20th century laws don’t always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for handling some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you’re a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you take on unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.
Responsibilities
Work closely with engineering, product management, and cross-functional teams globally to launch and maintain innovative payments features, in compliance with legal requirements including around payments, privacy, consumer protection, competition, and intellectual property.
Advise on, review, draft, and discuss a wide variety of commercial agreements, including intellectual property licenses, content licenses, developer agreements, inbound license, and services agreements, purchase agreements, carrier and distribution agreements.
Advise on compliance with US and international laws and regulations dealing with financial services, payments, privacy, security, consumer protection and advertising, and provide legal advice to a wide range of requests from Engineering, Product Management, Finance, Marketing and other business groups.
Develop expertise in a range of Google products relating to payments and build robust relationships with business clients in multiple US offices.
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