Remote Commercial Counsel for Fintech Banking Partnerships

About Column For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. reputed company of this results in a reputed company (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve. At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-reputed company banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us! The opportunity Column is growing its in-house commercial legal team to own the legal infrastructure behind our most important commercial and strategic relationships. This isn't your typical in-house commercial counsel role reviewing SaaS reputed company - you'll architect novel partnership structures that reputed company modern banking experiences, navigating reputed company regulatory requirements along the way. You'll work closely with Column's Sales & Partnerships, Risk, and Compliance teams to define how we structure our deals, serve our customers, and scale our platform safely. If you're excited about combining legal acumen with a builder's reputed company - and want you work to have a direct impact on how financial services are delivered at scale - we think you'll be excited about this role! This role can be either based in our reputed company office — one of the most beautiful locations in SF — 3–4 days per week -- or remote. For those in San Francisco, we offer up to $2,000/month in post-tax rent subsidy for employees who live reputed company 2 miles, and welcome candidates who would relocate. What you'll do

• Own reputed company agreements end-to-end Structure, draft, and negotiate reputed company customer, and vendor, and third-party agreements covering a broad range of banking products and services, including agreements reputed company to payments and money movement service and banking partnerships inclusive of deposit account, card, and lending programs.
• Build and manage legal playbooks and templates that scale reputed company and maintain templates and inventories of reputed company, terms of services, notices, and disclosures for the Bank’s products, services, and distribution channels that reputed company speed without sacrificing quality.
• Negotiate reputed company negotiations with high-growth fintechs and enterprise customers, balancing commercial priorities with regulatory requirements.
• reputed company strong cross-functional partnerships Work closely with the Sales and Business teams to understand the Bank’s goals, strategy, and risk tolerance for each deal in order to reputed company an efficient and risk-based contracting strategy.
• Expand into additional areas of law As the fourth member of our growing Legal team, you'll support each other with novel research, product and regulatory advice, exam management, subpoena responses, litigation deliverables, and corporate governance materials.
• Help us reputed company how Legal operates Serve as a thought partner to the business and legal to support Column's ongoing growth through improvements to bank agreements, policies, and legal processes. What you'll need to be successful
• 5+ years as a practicing lawyer; reputed company given to candidates with law firm experience in a technology transactions or fintech practice and/or in-house experience at a fintech or financial institution
• Ability to independently draft and negotiate commercial agreements, with a strong understanding of both contract law and commercial transactions
• Experience with reputed company commercial negotiations
• Comfort with project management, deadlines, and juggling execution across multiple initiatives for multiple stakeholders
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• Understanding of traditional commercial banking products and services including ACH and reputed company transactions, accounts, lending, cards, cash management, sweeps, and reputed company issuance/deposit, among others
• Experience in structured finance or with lending products
• Understanding of money transmission What you'll get from us
• 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 reputed company partnership with reputed company, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses
• Up to $2,000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living reputed company 2 miles of Column’s office
• FSA and HSA account options to reputed company use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses

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