Associate General Counsel, Product (Fintech)

Associate General Counsel, Product (Fintech)

Remote - Americas

At Shopify, we're not just building software — we're revolutionizing how the world does business. And behind every game-changing platform feature, every major enterprise deal, every innovative partnership, and every merchant success story is our incredible Legal Team, solving unprecedented challenges and paving new paths in the digital commerce landscape.

The Team & Opportunity

The Product Legal Team counsels the business units responsible for developing and building Shopify’s products and services. We provide legal support on new products across different verticals. Our work is challenging, varied, and constantly evolving.

Your work will span:

• Global payment rails processing billions in transactions
• Embedded asset accounts, loans, cards and other financial products that blur traditional regulatory boundaries
• Emerging payment methods from BNPL to crypto
• AI-powered lending and risk decisioning systems

About You

We're looking for a strategic, passionate, and product-forward senior product lawyer. You're energized by being embedded with product and engineering teams, getting into the details of how data actually flows, and turning that understanding into practical, business-propelling counsel.

You use AI tools reflexively. Not as a novelty, but as a baseline for how you work.

Success here takes intellect, humility, and a sense of humor. You're comfortable being uncomfortable, connect easily with different kinds of people, earn trust quickly, and genuinely enjoy working as part of a team — handling complicated matters with empathy and professionalism.

The Culture

We're collaborative, curious, and committed to making commerce better for everyone. You'll work alongside brilliant legal minds and passionate business leaders who value both intellectual rigor and creative problem-solving.

We take our work seriously but never ourselves — expect fast-paced intensity balanced with genuine care for each other, strategic thinking mixed with practical execution, and the kind of environment where your ideas can reshape how we do business.

Responsibilities

• Ship products that don't have precedent: Partner with product teams launching financial innovations that regulators haven't contemplated yet
• Navigate global complexity at scale: Manage regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions for products serving millions of merchants processing hundreds of billions in payments
• Translate between worlds: Explain complex regulations to business stakeholders in their language and translate product visions into compliant realities
• Build frameworks, not just answers: Create scalable legal frameworks that enable product velocity rather than one-off approvals
• Own the outcome: Take accountability for go-to-market launches from legal review through post-launch iteration
• Build positive and highly collaborative relationships across Legal Teams at Shopify

Qualifications

• A qualifying law degree and license to practice law in the United States or Canada
• 7+ years of relevant legal experience in a law firm or in-house legal department
• Substantial experience counseling Product teams on financial regulatory matters, privacy, consumer protection, and compliance
• Exceptional analytical thinking, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills
• Comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment, collaborating across multiple areas to achieve common organizational objectives
• Proven ability to manage external counsel across multiple jurisdictions

Bonus Experience

• Experience with common fintech financial licenses (e.g. US money transmitter licenses and BitLicenses, EU/UK e-money institution licenses, and similar regimes worldwide)
• You’ve launched financial products internationally
• Background in emerging areas: embedded finance, open banking, crypto/blockchain

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About the discipline

Legal at Shopify

Every discipline at Shopify works close to real merchant problems. You'll join a team that owns meaningful scope, ships to a high bar, and helps millions of entrepreneurs start, run, and scale their businesses.

Growth and rewards

Mastery-matched compensation.

Explore rewards

~Mastery

At Shopify, getting better at your craft and increasing your impact is how you grow. Twice a year, we assess both in our ~Mastery cycle, Shopify’s performance review. Achieving higher ~Mastery is a promotion, and when you earn a promotion your total rewards grow with it. Crafter and manager are equal paths, so you can pursue excellence in the craft you’re best at.

Total Rewards

With Flex Comp, your Rewards Wallet gives you agency over your compensation mix. Adjust your mix of cash, restricted share units, and stock options (including programs like Long-Term Equity)* to where it makes sense for you, and mix it up anytime as life and priorities change. Buying a house? Want more skin in the game? Just experimenting? It’s your call.

* Flex Comp program offerings vary based on location, role, and employment type. Full details are set out in our Terms & Conditions and related plan documents.

Built for real life

Room for the rest of your life.

Flexible work, remote by design

A flexible vacation policy means most Shopifolk can take the vacation days they feel they need to recharge.

If a change of everyday scenery is more your jam, Destination 90 means you can work from (almost) anywhere in the world for 90 days of the year.

Your setup

Your battlestation is your home base. Request the desk, chair, and AV gear you need to get shit done.

Benefits

You need ‘em, we’ve got ‘em. Our health and welfare benefits may include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance depending on your country. If you’re in a country without a package, you'll receive a monthly allowance. We also offer mental health support for you and your dependents, including immediate and confidential services like counseling and coaching sessions.

Family support

We offer fertility benefits globally, along with paid parental leave to welcome a new family member.

Applying to work here

Show us your craft.

Read the candidate guide

1Life Story

The Life Story is how we understand the themes of your career journey so far, human to human. What you’ve learned, and how you made a difference. Show us the trophies and the bruises: the problems you’ve solved, the challenges you encountered, the decisions you made, and the lessons you learned along the way.

2Craft assessment

We’re looking for world-class crafters. Crafters obsessed with pursuing excellence in their field. Our craft assessment looks at your personal journey toward mastery, and your potential to go broader and deeper in novel ways.

You’ll start with an online assessment, followed by a craft assessment. Show us what you do best, and how you do it. Shopify’s bar is high. Let your skills do the talking.

3Craft interviews

Building on your craft assessment, these interviews dive deeper into your experience and technical aptitude. Depending on the role, this may include technical deep dives focusing on projects you've previously worked on, collaborating in a design critique, exploring a dataset using SQL, or taking the lead on solving a problem with your interviewer as your co-pilot.