M&A Paralegal

Job Description

Stripe is looking for an enthusiastic, highly organized, and resourceful individual to join Stripe’s M&A and Investments Legal team as a paralegal. In this role, you’ll provide critical support for the team’s day-to-day operational needs and you’ll contribute to strategic transactions, investments and other business-critical projects for Stripe.

Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of all sizes—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept online payments and run technically sophisticated financial operations in more than 100 countries. By helping businesses accept payments from anywhere in the world and accelerating the economic shift from offline to online, we aim to increase the GDP of the internet.

Come join us for this exciting opportunity to work with a great team and company!

You will:

• Partner with Corporate Development, members of the broader Legal Team and other key internal stakeholders on transactions and other corporate projects
• Manage processes relating to, and assist with the closing of, strategic transactions
• Assist with corporate filings and corporate governance matters relating to transactions
• Develop and maintain forms and legal resources for our partner teams
• Manage and refresh internal team resources
• Create new and improve existing operational processes

We’re looking for someone who has/is:

• Strong communication (both written and verbal) skills
• The ability to and enjoys working across various teams in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Comfortable with a daily high volume of tasks and projects, and can quickly shift priorities as needed
• Flexible, responsive, proactive, resourceful, highly organized, with great attention to detail and a strong ability to execute
• A self-starter who can work independently and perform, and react well under pressure or ambiguity
• The ability to and enjoys optimizing processes to make them more efficient
• Adept at handling sensitive information and situations with care and confidence
• A bachelor’s degree

Nice to haves:

• Paralegal certificate
• Experience as a legal assistant, program manager, paralegal, or equivalent role at a law firm or in-house legal department
• Experience with Google Suite (Gmail, GDocs, GSheet)