Senior Counsel, Strategic Partnerships

🕒 June 29

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $210k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Column

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

🏦 Banking

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

Banking • Fintech • SaaS

Column is a developer-centric bank that provides infrastructure and banking services specifically designed for developers and builders. It is the only nationally chartered bank in the United States tailored for enabling developers to create new financial products. With a focus on offering financial services as code, Column bypasses legacy systems and middleware to provide direct, fast, and flexible banking solutions through an API-first approach. These services include ACH and wire transfers, programmable bank accounts, card program management, and lending solutions. Column connects directly to the Federal Reserve, offering developers unmatched access to money movement, banking infrastructure, and financial services that are typically out of reach, with a strong emphasis on compliance and real-time transactions.

📋 Description

• Structure Bank-Fintech Partnerships: Lead the legal work to structure and launch partnerships across both payments and credit. Advise on line of credit products, bank accounts, consumer and commercial loan origination, multi-currency wallets, domestic and international card issuance, EWA and BNPL products, complex global money movement products, and more. Draft and review key customer-facing terms and marketing materials, structure onboarding flows and applications, determine BSA/AML requirements, conduct regulatory analyses, and own every legal detail of rolling out a new Column-backed product. Work closely with engineering to design a flow-of-funds model and reflect that product structure in legal documentation. • Own complex agreements end-to-end: Structure, draft, and negotiate complex customer and third-party partnership agreements covering a broad range of banking products and services. • Drive Product Strategy & Innovation: Be the strategic legal voice enabling product innovation. Partner closely with business teams and fintech partners from ideation through launch, anticipating challenges and architecting creative solutions that balance business needs with regulatory requirements. Advise on product structuring, and the legal implications of new lending and payments features and partnership models. • Own Regulatory Architecture: Build and evolve regulatory frameworks for existing and new products. Leverage your deep expertise in NACHA, money transmission, BSA/AML, TILA, Reg Z, Reg E, ECOA, UDAAP, FCRA, state usury and licensing laws, the evolving EWA space, federal preemption, and true lender risk. Partner with compliance and risk teams to develop scalable approaches that protect the business while enabling growth. • Lead Subject Matter Expertise: Be a go-to authority on legal and regulatory requirements impacting the bank’s products. Share insights on regulatory developments and their practical implications. Help establish Column as a thought leader in banking infrastructure. • Leverage Technology & AI: Embrace and drive the adoption of technology — including AI and automation tools — to increase the efficiency, speed, and scalability of legal workflows. Identify opportunities to use AI and partner with engineering teams to build legal tooling that gives Column a structural advantage. • Scale Operations: Design and implement legal processes that can scale with hypergrowth. Improve partner onboarding efficiency while maintaining robust compliance. Build repeatable frameworks that enable the business to move faster. Develop template program agreements and disclosure packages that accelerate new partnership launches.

🎯 Requirements

• Currently licensed in a U.S. state, J.D. or equivalent, with 7–15+ years as a practicing lawyer; priority given to candidates with both law firm experience and in-house experience at a fintech and/or a financial institution. • Deep expertise counseling product teams on banking infrastructure and embedded finance solutions, with particular depth in consumer and/or commercial banking. • Ability to independently draft and negotiate complex commercial agreements, with a strong understanding of both contract law and commercial transactions. • Comprehensive knowledge of the regulatory framework governing banking partnerships and fintech services. • Deep working knowledge of the regulatory and compliance requirements impacting Column’s payments, card, and lending products. • Experience structuring agreements and advising on bank-fintech lending partnerships. • Familiarity with loan sale, participation, and servicing agreements • Familiarity with complex cross-border money movement, global payment rails, and multi-currency wallet structures. • Proven ability to manage a high volume, cross-functional workload without sacrificing quality or speed. • A strong desire to work at the center of fintech/bank innovation, coupled with comfort and experience making fast, sound, and supported risk decisions, especially where the legal landscape isn’t black and white.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents! • Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses • FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses • 401k plan, including self-directed brokerage options • Flexible time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge • 100% paid parental leave, including 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers • Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees • Commuter benefits • Regular team building events, including annual offsite

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