Senior Commercial Counsel

The role

You will architect novel partnership structures and own complex agreements end-to-end. You will work with Sales, Risk, and Compliance teams to define deal structures and scale the platform safely.

What you will do

• Structure, draft, and negotiate complex customer, vendor, and third-party agreements
• Build and manage legal playbooks and templates
• Lead negotiations with high-growth fintechs and enterprise customers
• Work with Sales and Business teams to develop efficient contracting strategies
• Support novel research, product and regulatory advice, exam management, subpoena responses, litigation deliverables, and corporate governance materials
• Support Column's growth through improvements to bank agreements, policies, and legal processes

Required qualifications

• 8+ years as a practicing lawyer
• Experience driving complex commercial negotiations
• Ability to independently draft and negotiate commercial agreements
• Strong understanding of both contract law and commercial transactions
• Comfort with project management, deadlines, and juggling execution across multiple initiatives for multiple stakeholders

Nice to have

• Law firm experience in a technology transactions or fintech practice
• In-house experience at a fintech or financial institution
• Understanding of traditional commercial banking products and services including ACH and wire transactions, accounts, lending, cards, cash management, sweeps, and check issuance/deposit
• Experience in structured finance or with lending products
• Understanding of money transmission

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
• Health, dental, and vision can be 100% covered by Column for employee and dependents
• Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot
• Reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified fertility expenses
• Up to $2,000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of office
• FSA and HSA account options
• 401k plan including self-directed brokerage options
• Flexible time-off policy
• Sabbatical Program: up to 8 weeks of fully paid leave after 5-year anniversary
• 100% paid parental leave: 16 weeks for birth mothers, 12 weeks for primary caregivers, 8 weeks for secondary caregivers
• Up to $4,500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare
• Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees

About the company

Column is a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering technology-forward banking solutions. They aim to simplify the banking supply chain for builders and developers.