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About the Role
Partner with the business on general commercial matters and negotiate contracts crucial to Chime's success. This role requires outstanding professional judgment, excellent communication, interpersonal, negotiation, and drafting skills. The ideal candidate can anticipate business needs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage diverse projects, and advise senior leaders.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic guidance and negotiate, draft, and review a broad range of commercial agreements, including SaaS agreements, strategic partnership agreements, NDAs, marketing agreements, technology vendor contracts, and professional services agreements.
- Utilize AI tools for drafting, contract review, research, and summarization, applying legal judgment to verify and refine output.
- Proactively streamline and improve processes by creating templates and developing legal trainings and playbooks.
- Build and refine AI-enabled workflows to enhance efficiency for the legal team and business.
- Develop strong, collaborative relationships cross-functionally and within the legal team, including with subject matter experts.
- Escalate issues as appropriate and collaboratively share potential risks and proposals with the executive team.
Requirements
- A J.D. and active membership in at least one state bar.
- 2-5 years of combined law firm, government, and/or in-house experience.
- Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial agreements.
- Genuine excitement about using AI to build efficient processes, with a willingness to experiment and share learnings.
- Comfort using AI tools daily and a commitment to responsible use, considering confidentiality, privilege, and accuracy.
- Practical business judgment and problem-solving skills to understand business needs, provide strategic guidance, and craft creative solutions.
- Willingness to deeply understand the subject matter of an agreement.
- A track record of success in handling complex business and legal issues.
- Ability to work collaboratively and develop positive relationships with internal partners and external stakeholders.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines while maintaining a positive attitude.
- Familiarity with fintech, technology, banking, or financial services companies is a plus.
Skills
- Commercial contract negotiation
- Contract drafting
- Contract review
- AI tool utilization
- Process improvement
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Risk assessment
- Problem-solving
- Organizational skills
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
Location
- San Francisco
- Chicago
- New York City
Work Type
- Onsite (four days a week in office, Fridays from home for those near an office)
- Remote (for those in the fully remote program)
Experience Level
- 2-5 years of experience
Education Level
- J.D. degree
- Active state bar membership
Salary/Compensations
- $152,000—$210,000 USD
Benefits
- Bonus potential
- Competitive equity
- Backup child, elder, and pet care
- Subsidized commuter benefits
- Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits
- Generous vacation policy
- Company-wide paid days off
- 1% of time off to support local community organizations
- Annual wellness stipend
- Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- Access to family planning reimbursement
About the Company
- Chime is a financial technology company focused on making core banking services helpful, easy, and free to empower members to achieve financial progress.
- The company utilizes user-friendly tools and intuitive platforms to help millions unlock their financial potential.
- Chime is driven by a team of problem solvers, dreamers, and builders obsessed with their members' success.
- The company culture is entrepreneurial, encouraging bold ideas, big dreams, and calculated risks, while emphasizing collaboration, diverse perspectives, and honest feedback.
- Chime operates with a high degree of integrity, guided by core values embedded in every aspect of the business.
- Chime is not a bank; banking services are provided by The Bancorp Bank, N.A. or Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC.
Equal Opportunity
- Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
- The company considers qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable laws.
- Accommodation is available for individuals with disabilities during the application process.