Description:
On A Personal Finance Platform legal team, you will be working at the intersection of financial technology and regulatory frameworks. Your work helps A Personal Finance Platform build simple, effective and innovative products, understand and manage risks, and creatively navigate ambiguity, complexity and challenges, both external and internal.In this role, you'll be a deeply embedded and strategic partner to our Product, Design, Marketing, Operations, Risk/Compliance, and many other teams. You'll be responsible for leading the legal and regulatory strategy behind our fast-growing credit building business; you'll work closely with senior stakeholders to design and build new products and services for underserved consumers, and you'll provide strategic advice to drive A Personal Finance Platform expansion into new verticals.
Your Responsibilities:
- Partner closely with our product, engineering, and business teams to advise on a range of issues including product development, financial services regulations, payments, consumer protection, market expansion, data privacy, and intellectual property.
- Forge effective relationships with external counsels, partners, vendors, and regulators.
- Maintain an up-to-date understanding of applicable laws and regulations dealing with financial services and other relevant areas.
- Help to craft our response to changing regulatory environments.
- Work collaboratively to build A Personal Finance Platform legal and regulatory structure and support strategic partnerships.
- Create scalable and effective processes for legal review and launch of new products and services.
- Build trust and credibility with internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- You have 5+ years of experience as a qualified lawyer in an in-house legal team, top law firm and/or government agency, and are currently licensed to practice law.
- You have deep familiarity with fintech, or financial services laws and regulations such as Reg V, Reg Z, Reg B, Reg P, CCPA, UDAAP, Reg E, and BSA/AML.
- You're highly collaborative, have leadership qualities, are inquisitive, and solutions-oriented, and have prior experience advising on product development at fast-moving companies.
- You're biased towards action and impact, and no task is too big or too small for you; you can roll up your sleeves and get things done.
- You have exceptional verbal and interpersonal communication skills, can build strong relationships with business colleagues, and can simplify legal concepts and communicate them in easy-to-understand language.
- You're humble with low-ego, have a strong desire to grow and learn, and have a deep commitment to your teammates.