Counsel, Leasing & Operational Professional Services
Application analysis
Counsel, Leasing & Operational Professional Services at Stripe is a forward deployed payments infrastructure role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
Reading this role
This Technical customer-facing role role centers on hands-on work with customers to ship and adopt technical products.
About Stripe
Stripe embeds engineers with large merchants to integrate payments, billing, and financial products. The role is anchored in Chicago, US Remote, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Stand out for Counsel, Leasing & Operational Professional Services
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Counsel, Leasing & Operational Professional Services to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Stripe hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Mirror language from the job description in your examples — if they emphasize deployment, use deployment stories; if integration, use integration stories.
- Include a short “how I work with customers” section in your cover note: communication cadence, escalation instincts, and how you handle ambiguity.
- This role is tied to Chicago, US Remote — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at Stripe
- Demonstrate API design taste with a concrete example — Stripe will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate rigor with edge cases with a concrete example — Stripe will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Loops often include integration design and debugging — show you can reason about money movement, idempotency, and failure modes.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on stripe.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies — from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups — use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
Stripe's TOPS Legal team (Tech, Ops & Partnerships) is responsible for structuring and negotiating engagements with Stripe's global professional services providers, technology partners, and operational vendors. We work on complex and business-critical transactions and cross-functional projects, always striving to enable the business's ambitious roadmap while upholding Stripe's compliance practices. In this role, you'll be a subject matter expert and key advisor across a broad range of commercial real estate leasing, facilities, and operational professional services transactions that support Stripe's global footprint and operational needs. You'll move with urgency, effectively advising clients with a pro-business perspective, to support their strategic objectives.
What you'll do
The ideal candidate is passionate about Stripe's mission of helping businesses grow and thrives in solving complex legal and business issues in collaboration with others. We're looking for someone who is a team player and willing to jump in on tasks of any size. Experience in fintech is helpful, but not required, for you to be successful in this role. Experience in g