Legal Counsel, Payments – Fintech

🕒 August 24

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Xsolla

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Xsolla is a company specializing in game commerce solutions. It provides tools and services that empower video game developers to monetize, distribute, and fund their games, helping them to increase revenue at any stage of development. Xsolla offers a wide range of solutions such as customizable web shops, payment processing, fraud prevention, and social packages to enhance player engagement. With over 19 years of experience in the video game industry, Xsolla collaborates with developers and publishers globally to manage compliance, taxes, and operational complexities, allowing them to focus on connecting with their players. Their services are designed to work with popular game development platforms like Unity, Unreal, and Cocos Creator, supporting a wide array of local payment methods worldwide.

📋 Description

• Draft, review, and negotiate agreements with payment service providers, acquirers, card networks, payment facilitators, banks, and other financial partners. • Advise on end-to-end payment processing operations, including payment methods and providers, global money flows and settlement, chargebacks, refunds, fund flows, and reserve/holdback arrangements. • Advise on and support KYC/KYB, AML/CFT, sanctions screening, and customer due diligence requirements across markets. • Support legal and regulatory requirements for connecting to payment systems and expanding into new markets, including licensing analysis and entity structuring. • Consult the business on legal issues and implications of business decisions, initiatives, and payment strategies. • Maintain current knowledge of laws and regulations governing payment services and digital innovation, including cryptocurrencies, blockchain, NFTs, and decentralized finance (DeFi). • Analyze the impact of new and proposed rules and regulations on money movement, payment strategies, and business initiatives. • Draft, review, and negotiate contracts and documentation for new business ideas, licensing, vendor, and partnership agreements. • Work closely with business and technology teams to develop compliant payment products and service offerings. • Identify potential legal challenges and propose practical solutions. • Manage multiple priorities, meet tight deadlines, and provide other legal services and advice as needed.

🎯 Requirements

• Licensed to practice law in the US, in good standing. • At least 5 years of legal experience in fintech, banking, and/or payments. • Demonstrated expertise in payments and familiarity with the applicable U.S. and international regulatory landscape, including money transmission, BSA/AML, PSD2, MiCA, and card network rules. • Proven ability to provide practical legal advice in a fast-paced business environment. • Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including product, technology, business operations, and management. • Excellent drafting skills. • Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial agreements, including payment processing, financial services, technology, licensing, vendor, and partnership agreements.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision plans • Unlimited Flexible Time Off • Personalized career roadmap for each employee • Professional development through training and educational opportunities