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About the role
At Column, we’re looking for a senior lawyer excited to own strategic partnerships end to end, from the first "we want to build with Column" conversation through signing, product development, launch, and ongoing expansion. Instead of handing the work off to a relationship manager or a separate product team, you're the through-line. You will architect novel partnership structures that enable fintechs to deliver modern banking experiences, navigating complex regulatory requirements along the way.
What they're looking for
- 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 structuring agreements and advising on bank-fintech lending partnerships
More about this role
For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve.
At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us!
At Column, we’re looking for a senior lawyer excited to own strategic partnerships end to end, from the first "we want to build with Column"...
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