Counsel, Leasing & Operational Professional Services

What you'll do

The ideal candidate is passionate about Stripe's mission of helping businesses grow and thrives in solving complex legal and business issues in collaboration with others. We're looking for someone who is a team player and willing to jump in on tasks of any size. Experience in fintech is helpful, but not required, for you to be successful in this role. Experience in global leasing and operational procurement contracting is key.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial real estate leases, subleases, licenses to occupy, lease amendments, and ancillary real property agreements across global jurisdictions.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of operational professional services agreements, including facilities management, construction contracts, outsourced operations, financial services transactions, consulting, corporate security, and other operational vendor contracts.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders on legal, real estate, and operational vendor matters. Partner closely with key client groups including Workplace, Real Estate, Finance, Corporate Security, and broader Operations teams.
• Collaborate and build efficiencies with talented teams across Stripe, including Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Deal Management, Finance & Strategy, Tax, Security, and Third Party Risk Management.
• Develop and implement continuous improvement of tools, processes, training, and playbooks to help manage high-volume workstreams and educate internal and external counsel and stakeholders.
• Ensure Stripe's commercial relationships comply with applicable law, Stripe's data privacy and security policies, global privacy regulations, and global outsourced services guidelines.
• Identify and evaluate business and legal risks across lease obligations, landlord/tenant matters, and operational service arrangements, and find creative ways to mitigate them while achieving business goals.
• Effectively distill and explain complex issues to a variety of cross-functional stakeholders.
• Manage competing priorities and workloads with skillful multitasking.
• Spot issues, develop solutions, and counsel teams on issues relating to lease obligations, landlord/tenant matters, operational risk management, compliance, and vendor governance.
• Manage global outside counsel relationships and act as a responsive point of escalation for outside counsel.