Product Counsel, Payments (English, Japanese)

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in law or equivalent practical experience.

• 3 years of experience in advisory and regulatory financial/technology-related areas in Japan.

• 3 years of experience acting as legal counsel in a private practice and in-house.

• Ability to speak and write in English and Japanese fluently.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with supporting a payments product team.
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities and collaborate on a team.
• Ability to build relationships and establish credibility with business leaders.
• Ability to work on complex to routine standard matters.
• Excellent communication, advisory, agreement drafting, and leadership skills.

About the job

As Corporate Counsel at Google, you work on the most exciting legal issues as disruptive technological innovations require creative and proactive legal guidance. You're part of a whip-smart group of in-house lawyers and the projects and cases you take on challenge you to think big and differently. You are collaborative -- ready to partner in initiatives that influence all aspects of the business and work with Googlers from all over the company. As an integrated part of the team, you proactively assess legal risks and advise on products that will not only move information into the 21st century, but move information law forward as well.

The payments platform and licensing product counsel team supports Google's payment infrastructure which Google's products depend on. As Product Counsel for Payments, you'll develop and implement legal approaches and policies for our payments regulatory and licensing projects and support Google's continued growth in payments.

20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement legal approaches and policies for billing platforms and systems.
• Provide support for payments platforms and integration across products and with cross-functional teams (e.g., Finance, Product, Compliance).

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.