Counsel, Product & Regulatory

To help advance our vision of modern money movement, Marqeta is looking for a Counsel, Product and Regulatory who is enthusiastic about payments technology and its potential for positive impact in peoples’ lives. You will help drive high-profile cross-functional initiatives across the business involving a variety of complex legal and regulatory issues, relating to managing risk for financial and payments products. This requires strong business acumen and the ability to both work independently and with large multi-stakeholder teams. We are looking for someone with sharp analytical and communication skills, who is diligent, organized, engaged, proactive, collaborative, and who has demonstrated excellent legal and business judgment and strategic thinking. You will report to our US Product & Regulatory lead counsel.

We work Flexible First . This role can be performed remotely anywhere within the United States. We’d love for you to join us!

The Impact You’ll Have

• Act as a trusted advisor with deep knowledge and expertise in the rules, laws and regulations related to prepaid, debit, and credit card products, including EFTA/Regulation E, Durbin/Regulation II, TILA/Regulation Z, and card network rules
• Provide legal advice on payment laws, financial services regulations, consumer protection, and enforcement actions for existing products and new features
• Assess legal risks, recommend mitigation strategies, and provide legal advice to cross functional stakeholders (product, engineering, risk teams, go to market, etc.) in connection with maintaining integrity of the financial platform
• Monitor and conduct analyses of new regulations in the payments/financial services space to assess their applicability to the payments/financial products Marqeta offers
• Work closely and collaboratively with Marqeta’s internal teams, sponsor banks and customers to enable launches of new products, features and campaigns
• Collaborate with and manage outside legal counsel
• Be a team player and self-starter with drive and initiative
• Have high integrity and great judgment while working across the organization

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