Job Description
Square is looking for an attorney who will play a key role in providing guidance on the legal, regulatory, and industry issues related to Square’s rapidly expanding payments and financial services activities. This is an exciting opportunity for a creative legal mind with a sense of adventure. As part of a growing and innovative company, your ideas and contributions will have an immediate impact. This is a full-time role, reporting to the Seller General Counsel.
You will:
Advise on the full range of financial services legal, regulatory, and industry requirements applicable to online and offline payments, including FinCEN regulations, network rules, anti-money laundering processes, KYC obligations, emerging payment systems, money transmission, and other regimes.
Establish and maintain company-wide compliance programs to support regulatory bank, card network, and licensing requirements and interface with state, local and national payments regulators, in partnership with government relations team
Work closely with our internal product, business, risk, and compliance teams, as well as with external advisors
Identify risk areas and develop systems, policies, and procedures to manage and mitigate them
Provide ideas and insights into how Square can work within the law to create amazing product experiences for our customers
Qualifications
You have:
JD with at least 5 years of relevant experience in law firms, government agencies, and/or in-house counsel departments
Extensive knowledge of financial services and payments compliance requirements and regulations, including anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act, FinCEN regulations, OFAC regulations, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Gramm-Leach Bliley Act, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulations (including Regulations E and Z), know-your-customer requirements, unclaimed property laws escheatment rules, data security issues, and privacy issues in the financial industry
Experience with US regulatory system, with additional experience with non-US jurisdictions preferred
Demonstrated track record of strong leadership and project management skills
Familiarity with launching products and advising on the legal and regulatory aspects of product development
Sound and practical business judgment, intellectual creativity, and problem solving skills
Team-oriented and collaborative approach
A sense of adventure
Additional Information
We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Square is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. _WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT WE’RE DOING TO BUILD A WORKPLACE THAT IS FAIR AND SQUARE? CHECK OUT OUR I+D PAGE. _
Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
PERKS
We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:
Square, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) builds tools to empower businesses and individuals to participate in the economy. Sellers use Square to reach buyers online and in person, manage their business, and access financing. Individuals use Cash App to spend, send, store, and invest money. And TIDAL is a global music and entertainment platform that expands Square's purpose of economic empowerment to artists. Square, Inc. has offices in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Ireland, Spain, Norway, and the UK.