Column

4 weeks ago

Senior Counsel, Strategic Partnerships

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Job Summary

Senior legal leader responsible for structuring and negotiating bank-fintech partnerships, shaping product strategy, and building scalable regulatory frameworks across payments, cards, and lending to enable Column’s fintech banking solutions.

Location: San Francisco

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Business Development & Partnerships

Key Responsibilities

•Structure Bank-Fintech Partnerships: Lead the legal work to structure and launch partnerships across both payments and credit. Advise on line of credit products, bank accounts, consumer and commercial loan origination, multi-currency wallets, domestic and international card issuance, EWA and BNPL products, complex global money movement products, and more. Draft and review key customer-facing terms and marketing materials, structure onboarding flows and applications, determine BSA/AML requirements, conduct regulatory analyses, and own every legal detail of rolling out a new Column-backed product.
•Own complex agreements end-to-end: Structure, draft, and negotiate complex customer and third-party partnership agreements covering a broad range of banking products and services.
•Drive Product Strategy & Innovation: Be the strategic legal voice enabling product innovation. Partner closely with business teams and fintech partners from ideation through launch, and advise on product structuring and regulatory implications of new lending and payments features.
•Own Regulatory Architecture: Build and evolve regulatory frameworks for existing and new products; leverage expertise across NACHA, money transmission, BSA/AML, TILA, Reg Z, Reg E, ECOA, UDAAP, FCRA, and cross-border policy to enable growth.
•Lead Subject Matter Expertise: Be a go-to authority on regulatory requirements impacting the bank’s products and help establish Column as a thought leader in banking infrastructure.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 210,000 - 300,000 annually

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kParental LeaveCommuter Benefits

Key Requirements

•Currently licensed in a U.S. state, J.D. or equivalent, with 7–15+ years as a practicing lawyer; priority given to candidates with both law firm experience and in-house experience at a fintech and/or a financial institution.
•Deep expertise counseling product teams on banking infrastructure and embedded finance solutions, with particular depth in consumer and/or commercial banking.
•Ability to independently draft and negotiate complex commercial agreements, with a strong understanding of both contract law and commercial transactions.
•Comprehensive knowledge of the regulatory framework governing banking partnerships and fintech services.
•Deep working knowledge of the regulatory and compliance requirements impacting Column’s payments, card, and lending products.

Experience:FintechBankingFinancial services

Education:Professional (JD, MD, etc.)

Skills:NegotiationStakeholder managementCommunicationProblem-solvingPersuasion

Languages:English

Company Brief

Column

Column N.A. is a nationally chartered, API-first bank built for developers and fintechs, offering programmable accounts, payments, card programs, and lending infrastructure to embed banking into applications at scale.

Industry: Fintech Infrastructure

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Growth: Established Company

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2021

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Column

4 weeks ago

Senior Counsel, Strategic Partnerships

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 1 day agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: San Francisco

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Business Development & Partnerships

Key Responsibilities

•Structure Bank-Fintech Partnerships: Lead the legal work to structure and launch partnerships across both payments and credit. Advise on line of credit products, bank accounts, consumer and commercial loan origination, multi-currency wallets, domestic and international card issuance, EWA and BNPL products, complex global money movement products, and more. Draft and review key customer-facing terms and marketing materials, structure onboarding flows and applications, determine BSA/AML requirements, conduct regulatory analyses, and own every legal detail of rolling out a new Column-backed product.
•Own complex agreements end-to-end: Structure, draft, and negotiate complex customer and third-party partnership agreements covering a broad range of banking products and services.
•Drive Product Strategy & Innovation: Be the strategic legal voice enabling product innovation. Partner closely with business teams and fintech partners from ideation through launch, and advise on product structuring and regulatory implications of new lending and payments features.
•Own Regulatory Architecture: Build and evolve regulatory frameworks for existing and new products; leverage expertise across NACHA, money transmission, BSA/AML, TILA, Reg Z, Reg E, ECOA, UDAAP, FCRA, and cross-border policy to enable growth.
•Lead Subject Matter Expertise: Be a go-to authority on regulatory requirements impacting the bank’s products and help establish Column as a thought leader in banking infrastructure.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 210,000 - 300,000 annually

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kParental LeaveCommuter Benefits

Key Requirements

•Currently licensed in a U.S. state, J.D. or equivalent, with 7–15+ years as a practicing lawyer; priority given to candidates with both law firm experience and in-house experience at a fintech and/or a financial institution.
•Deep expertise counseling product teams on banking infrastructure and embedded finance solutions, with particular depth in consumer and/or commercial banking.
•Ability to independently draft and negotiate complex commercial agreements, with a strong understanding of both contract law and commercial transactions.
•Comprehensive knowledge of the regulatory framework governing banking partnerships and fintech services.
•Deep working knowledge of the regulatory and compliance requirements impacting Column’s payments, card, and lending products.

Experience:FintechBankingFinancial services

Education:Professional (JD, MD, etc.)

Skills:NegotiationStakeholder managementCommunicationProblem-solvingPersuasion

Languages:English

Company Brief

Column

Industry: Fintech Infrastructure

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Growth: Established Company

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2021

Website LinkedIn