Product Counsel, Credit

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

The Role

As Product Counsel, you'll have a broad range of responsibilities providing legal guidance on product and feature development. You will report to Cash App’s Head of Product Counsel (Commerce and Credit) and partner with our product teams to develop new offerings while managing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance. As we expand our offerings, your ideas and contributions will make an immediate impact. 

You are highly motivated, organized, and creative. You are curious, with a desire to understand underlying causes and motivations. You’ve got experience with lending products, either as in house counsel or through your work at a firm. You are able to research and master complex legal topics and communicate them to non-lawyers in brief, clear language. You can markup a complex commercial contract, draft terms of service, manage a conversation with a bank partner, and draft a memo on the legal aspects of a new product feature. You are good-humored, patient, respectful to your co-workers, and bring a positive attitude to our team. You are capable of an expert understanding of a legal issue but can separate the practical from the academic and provide clear, accurate, and actionable advice to the business team. You are good-humored, patient, respectful to your co-workers, and bring a positive attitude in the office.

You Will

• Provide guidance to product and engineering teams on issues related to products and features throughout the entire product development lifecycle
• Develop trusted relationship with business partners and stay informed on key product developments
• Draft and negotiate commercial agreements affecting your products and services
• Draft terms of use, product policies, and product disclosures
• Work closely with other support teams (tax, compliance, accounting, outside counsel) to provide seamless support to business partners
• Actively cultivate creative ideas and insights into how legal frameworks can support new product developments and customer experiences

You Have

• 8+ years of combined, relevant experience in law firms, governmental agencies, or in-house legal departments
• Experience advising on consumer lending products, including consumer lending protection laws (Regulation Z), bank partnerships, and state licensing regulations.
• Familiarity with launching products and advising on the legal and regulatory aspects of product development in the technology space
• Excellent commercial negotiation and drafting skills
• Fluency translating legal advice into actionable guidance for creative products and collaborators
• Work in an evolving and growing environment that is prone to changes
• Sound, practical business judgment, and creativity solving problems
• A Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active membership in at least one state bar

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. Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

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.