Senior Counsel, Payments

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This could be your chance to practice pioneering law for an innovative global tech company! eBay is seeking a highly skilled and collaborative attorney to join the legal team supporting our thriving and innovative payments and financial services platform. You will be responsible for providing legal and regulatory advice on new payments and financial services initiatives at eBay. Our rapidly expanding payments offerings include managed and seamless endtoend payments on our marketplace platform offering buyers more choice and flexibility when it comes to how and when they want to pay on eBay gift cards seller financing and numerous other innovative and unique products and features. You will provide targeted and pragmatic counseling to ensure our platform remains aligned with global payments regulation and card network rules. This is a phenomenal opportunity to help enable new payment and ecommerce experiences around the world!

This is a fulltime position based in the Bay Area with hybrid office work (currently 3 days a week).

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate and advise on the design development and roll out of new business models products and features throughout the entire product development lifecycle with an eye towards global scalability

• Advise on compliance with global payments money transmission AML/CTF and consumer protection regulations as well as card network rules

• Develop processes and procedures payments agreements and userfacing terms for new business lines

• Translate complex financial regulations and network rules into clear requirements for business compliance product and engineering teams

• Work closely with crossfunctional teams including AntiMoney Laundering/Sanctions Compliance Risk Finance/Treasury Accounting Marketing Privacy Information Security Internal Audit and Government Relations

• Anticipate regulatory changes and proactively advise leadership about how eBay should navigate through such changes

• Manage numerous projects simultaneously under deadline pressure

Minimum Qualifications:

• J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) and membership in at least one US state bar

• 8 years providing payments advice to regulated nonbank financial institutions preferably in the fintech space including inhouse experience with payments matters in the context of internet or technology companies

• Experience advising on US and global payments/money transmission regulation and card network rules

• Experience providing strategic and pragmatic regulatory advice to business engineering and compliance teams

• Experience providing product counseling advice for new payments products within a fintech or other nonbank financial institutions

• Technical understanding of the payments and financial ecosystem especially as relevant to payments as a service

• Experience working crossfunctionally and using critical thinking to achieve business objectives

• Ability to manage and deliver across a number of toppriority projects

• Excellent communication analytical and problemsolving skills

• Flexible and agile problem solver with the ability to tolerate ambiguity in a fastpaced environmentwhere change is happening every day

• Good sense of humor and team spirit

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong curiosity about alternative payments emerging payments technology and the fintech industry

• Inhouse legal department experience

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment in California Washington or New York is expected in the range below.

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors including location skills and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired employees will be in an atwill position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance Company or individual department/team performance and market factors.

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