Legal Counsel ensuring compliance with legal standards while supporting commercial teams across multiple entities. Key role in contract management, negotiations, and legal advisement.
About the role
- Legal Counsel managing regulatory compliance in automotive sector for Ekho. Working with leadership to navigate complex regulatory landscapes as the company grows.
Responsibilities
- Own Ekho's multi-state automotive regulatory compliance strategy, including dealer licensing, DMV licensing, and related permitting across all active and target states.
- Advise leadership on emerging legal issues as Ekho expands into new products (F&I, insurance, ancillary services) and new geographies.
- Participate directly in meetings with DMV regulators, state agencies, and licensing bodies — acting as an effective advocate and credible voice for Ekho.
- Partner with our outside counsel on complex matters while handling day-to-day questions independently, reducing reliance on outside counsel for routine issues.
- Proactively flag compliance risks during internal brainstorming and product development.
- Manage and maintain Ekho's dealer licensure, ensuring requirements are met as needed.
- Build repeatable legal processes and playbooks as the company scales, laying the foundation for a broader legal function over time.
Requirements
- 3–10 years of legal experience with a meaningful focus on automotive regulatory compliance, ideally in-house at a large dealer group, OEM, or automotive technology company.
- Deep familiarity with motor vehicle dealer licensing requirements across multiple U.S. states, including DMV licensing, dealer licensing, and titling and registration workflows.
- Working knowledge of sales and use tax issues in automotive transactions across state lines.
- Experience with brokering regulations, money transmission licensing, and related compliance frameworks.
- Familiarity with F&I (Finance & Insurance) products and the regulatory landscape governing them.
- Demonstrated ability to advise in highly regulated states (California, New York, Texas, or equivalent).
- Comfortable representing a company in front of DMV representatives, state regulators, and other agencies.
- National perspective: able to spot issues across all 50 states, not just the ones you know best.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, you can distill a complex regulatory issue into clear guidance the business can act on.
- High ownership mindset, you identify issues proactively, move fast, and don't wait to be asked.
- J.D. from an ABA-accredited U.S. law school and active licensure to practice law in at least one U.S. state (in good standing).
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and meaningful equity
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k
- Free lunch and dinners
- Annual team offsite
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