Senior Counsel, Payments

eBay; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

eBay is seeking a skilled attorney for its legal team to provide advice on payments and financial services initiatives. The position requires handling legal compliance, collaborating with teams throughout product development, and managing multiple projects in a hybrid work environment.

Benefits

401(k) eligibility

Paid time off benefits

Parental leave

Target bonus and stock options

Qualifications

• 8+ years providing payments advice to regulated non-bank financial institutions.
• Experience advising on US and global payments and money transmission regulations.
• Technical understanding of the payments and financial ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal and regulatory advice on new payments features.
• Advise on compliance with payments and consumer protection regulations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on product development.

Skills

Communication

Analytical

Problem Solving

Critical Thinking

Education

J.D. degree

Job description

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

This could be your chance to practice pioneering law for an innovative global tech company! eBay is seeking a highly skilled and collaborative attorney to join the legal team supporting our thriving and innovative payments and financial services platform. You will be responsible for providing legal and regulatory advice on new payments and financial services initiatives at eBay. Our rapidly expanding payments offerings include managed and seamless end-to-end payments on our marketplace platform, offering buyers more choice and flexibility when it comes to how and when they want to pay on eBay, gift cards, seller financing, and numerous other innovative and unique products and features. You will provide targeted and pragmatic counseling to ensure our platform remains aligned with global payments regulation and card network rules. This is a phenomenal opportunity to help enable new payment and e-commerce experiences around the world!

This is a full-time position based in the Bay Area, with hybrid office work (currently 3 days a week).

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate and advise on the design, development, and roll out of new business models, products, and features throughout the entire product development lifecycle, with an eye towards global scalability

• Advise on compliance with global payments, money transmission, AML/CTF, and consumer protection regulations, as well as card network rules

• Develop processes and procedures, payments agreements, and user-facing terms for new business lines

• Translate complex financial regulations and network rules into clear requirements for business, compliance, product and engineering teams

• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Anti-Money Laundering/Sanctions Compliance, Risk, Finance/Treasury, Accounting, Marketing, Privacy, Information Security, Internal Audit, and Government Relations

• Anticipate regulatory changes and proactively advise leadership about how eBay should navigate through such changes

• Manage numerous projects simultaneously under deadline pressure

Minimum Qualifications:

• J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) and membership in at least one US state bar

• 8+ years providing payments advice to regulated non-bank financial institutions, preferably in the fintech space, including in-house experience with payments matters in the context of internet or technology companies

• Experience advising on US and global payments/money transmission regulation and card network rules

• Experience providing strategic and pragmatic regulatory advice to business, engineering, and compliance teams

• Experience providing product counseling advice for new payments products within a fintech or other non-bank financial institutions

• Technical understanding of the payments and financial ecosystem, especially as relevant to payments as a service

• Experience working cross-functionally and using critical thinking to achieve business objectives

• Ability to manage and deliver across a number of top-priority projects

• Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills

• Flexible and agile problem solver, with the ability to tolerate ambiguity in a fast-paced environmentwhere change is happening every day

• Good sense of humor and team spirit

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong curiosity about alternative payments, emerging payments technology, and the fintech industry

• In-house legal department experience

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment in California, Washington, or New York is expected in the range below.

$158,800 - $239,800

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employees will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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