About the role

  • Associate General Counsel at AI-powered fintech company overseeing legal operations and product strategy in New York City. Collaborating across teams to shape legal culture and business decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Championing Legal as an accelerant: Bringing a creative, solution-oriented approach to your work.
  • Navigating regulatory complexity: Developing a deep understanding of the Company’s regulatory landscape to inform their risk philosophy and proactively guide their business, compliance, and technical teams.
  • Establishing excellence in product counseling: Supporting the Company’s Product and Engineering teams as they develop new products and expand into new business lines.
  • Making commercial transactions seamless: Reviewing, drafting, and negotiating sales and vendor agreements.
  • Creating scalable legal processes: Designing and implementing scalable legal processes that grow alongside the team and business.
  • Helping build a world-class Legal team: Helping design and build a Legal team to support the Company’s growth.

Requirements

  • 5-8 years of experience in a legal role in a high-growth startup environment; experience in a regulated industry preferred.
  • Strong experience working closely with product and engineering teams, providing critical legal insights that shape product strategy and development
  • Comfort acting in a generalist capacity and managing a variety of legal areas, including product counseling, commercial contract review, and litigation management
  • Demonstrated ability to align legal expertise with commercial objectives, and adept in legal aspects of product innovation and market expansion
  • Demonstrated ability to navigate effectively in the ambiguous and rapidly changing environment of a growing startup
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders
  • A proactive, hands-on approach, ready to engage directly with various aspects of our business.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development

Job title

Associate General Counsel

Job type

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

$230,000 - $250,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

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