Commercial Counsel,apac

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · Singapore · 6320 Commercial Legal

Commercial Counsel for Stripe's APAC region, focusing on negotiating agreements, advising on legal issues, and supporting product launches and international expansions. The role involves building commercial legal infrastructure, drafting agreements, improving internal processes, and leveraging AI tooling to optimize workflows. It requires partnering with global teams and developing training for the sales team.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support the APAC Sales team, leading negotiations for complex and strategic agreements;
  2. Advise on a wide range of commercial and legal issues, including launch of new products to Stripe users and support international expansions;
  3. Be an integral part of the build out of Stripe’s commercial legal infrastructure so that we can scale and operate efficiently at pace with Stripe’s exponential growth - this work includes drafting and maintaining Stripe’s agreements and playbooks, leading and contributing projects to improve internal processes, leveraging AI tooling to optimize how we work and collaborate with our clients, partners and users;
  4. Partner with teams across Stripe globally, including sales, operations, product, tax, risk groups, and others;
  5. Help the entire team drive scaled support and efficiency, working collaboratively in a global team to maximize the overall impact of the Commercial Legal team;

Skills

Required

  • transactional lawyer
  • commercial legal
  • negotiations for complex and strategic agreements
  • drafting and maintaining Stripe’s agreements and playbooks
  • partner with teams across Stripe globally
  • develop and deliver training and other resources to help the Sales team sell our products
  • Intellectually curious
  • creative problem solver
  • self starter
  • bias for action
  • clear and concise communicator
  • natural collaborator
  • guide cross-functional teams
  • drive to a win-win solution
  • Familiar with the range of legal issues and commercial risks that arise in connection with hosted data and technology services
  • team player
  • Qualified in at least one APAC region with a law degree or equivalent
  • 7+ years of relevant experience in-house or in a technology practice group in a top law firm

Nice to have

  • Fluency in mandarin
  • experience supporting the greater china region
  • Experience working in payment or fintech industries
  • knowledge of associated regulatory issues
  • In-house experience advising high growth companies
  • Working knowledge on how to use LLM tools
  • Experience in improving legal processes with AI technology
  • A working knowledge of data protection laws

What the JD emphasized

  • leveraging AI tooling to optimize how we work
  • improving legal processes with AI technology