Commercial Counsel

Overview

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Column is growing its in-house commercial legal team to own the legal infrastructure behind our most important commercial and strategic relationships. This isn't your typical in-house Commercial Counsel role reviewing SaaS contracts — you'll architect novel partnership structures that enable modern banking experiences, navigating complex regulatory requirements along the way. You'll work closely with Column's Sales & Partnerships, Risk, and Compliance teams to define how we structure our deals, serve our customers, and scale our platform safely. If you're excited about combining legal acumen with a builder's mindset and want your work to have a direct impact on how financial services are delivered at scale, you’ll be excited about this role.

This is an in-person role with 3-4 days per week expected in our Presidio-based San Francisco office.

The opportunity

Column is 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!

What you'll do

• Own complex agreements end-to-end : Structure, draft, and negotiate complex customer, vendor, and third-party agreements covering a broad range of banking products and services, including payments and money movement services and banking partnerships inclusive of deposit accounts, card, and lending programs.
• Build and manage legal playbooks and templates that scale : Develop and maintain templates and inventories of contracts, terms of service, notices, and disclosures for the Bank’s products, services, and distribution channels that enable speed without sacrificing quality.
• Negotiate : Lead negotiations with high-growth fintechs and enterprise customers, balancing commercial priorities with regulatory requirements.
• Develop strong cross-functional partnerships : Work closely with Sales and Business teams to understand the Bank’s goals, strategy, and risk tolerance for each deal to develop an efficient and risk-based contracting strategy.
• Expand into additional areas of law : Support each other with novel research, product and regulatory advice, exam management, subpoena responses, litigation deliverables, and corporate governance materials.
• Help us level up how Legal operates : Serve as a thought partner to the business and legal to support Column's ongoing growth through improvements to bank agreements, policies, and legal processes.

What you'll need to be successful

Understanding of traditional commercial banking products and services including ACH and wire transactions, accounts, lending, cards, cash management, sweeps, and check issuance / deposit

What you'll get from us

Pay transparency

Compensation packages at Column include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

The annual base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $250,000 + equity.

We look forward to hearing from you

Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please reach out to accommodations@column.com.

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