Corporate Counsel

Square; Lakewood (CO); Hybrid; USD 77,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote options

Mentor for your rise

Job summary

Square's Lakewood, CO corporate counsel opening invites you to trade 5 years of contract review for a meaningful role in statutory interpretation. Take the lead in a fast-paced legal environment with mentor support, remote-friendly options, and a culture that values clear, pragmatic judgments.

You will collaborate across teams, map CO handoffs, and help keep the Lakewood site running as improvements ship. If you thrive on ambiguity and delivering steady, well-reasoned legal outcomes, this is

Qualifications

• Familiarity with Square-scale workflows or ability to scale processes.
• Experience with Brief Writing and related frameworks.
• Confident communicator across email, calls, and in-person meetings.

Responsibilities

• Adapt quickly to shifting priorities in a fast-paced general environment
• Keep Square's Lakewood, CO site running while improvements ship underneath
• Make peace with genuinely-flexible ambiguity and ship anyway
• Partner sideways with teams who rarely sit in the same room
• Map the handoffs between CO teams so nothing falls in the cracks
• Field curveballs from Lakewood clients without losing the thread
• Trade quick wins for steady-handed fixes when the math favors patience

Skills

Workflow familiarity

Brief writing

Communication

Persuasion

Teamwork

Experience

Job description

If Statutory Interpretation is the thing you reach for before coffee, Square's Corporate Counsel opening in Lakewood, CO was written with you in mind. Trade 5 years of Contract Review for $77,000 - $115,000 and you also get general ownership and a Square crew that wants you to win.

Key Responsibilities

• Adapt quickly to shifting priorities in a fast-paced general environment
• Keep Square's Lakewood, CO site running while improvements ship underneath
• Make peace with genuinely-flexible ambiguity and ship anyway
• Partner sideways with teams who rarely sit in the same room
• Map the handoffs between CO teams so nothing falls in the cracks
• Field curveballs from Lakewood clients without losing the thread
• Trade quick wins for steady-handed fixes when the math favors patience

What You'll Bring

• Familiarity with Square-scale workflows, or the appetite to reach them
• Familiarity with Brief Writing and related tools or frameworks
• Confident communicator across email, calls, and in-person meetings
• Mid-level fluency in Persuasion, with Statutory Interpretation on your roadmap
• Ability to thrive both independently and as part of a tight-knit team
• Resilience measured across 4 years of general cycles

The team at Square is small, gently-demanding, and entirely convinced that Lakewood is the best place to reinvent general. Our Lakewood team treats every retro like a chance to quietly upgrade how we operate.

Take $77,000 - $115,000, add a mentor invested in your rise, layer on benefits and remote options, and that is the Square offer in one breath.

Hiring for this position is live and moving quickly, with interviews already underway.