Description:
About the role:A Financial Solutions & Resources for Self-Employed Businesses is on a mission to revolutionize the way solopreneurs run their businesses, and we're looking for an experienced Product & Privacy Counsel to join our lean but mighty legal team. Reporting directly to the General Counsel, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the legal framework that enables innovation and growth while managing regulatory risk.
In this role, you'll be working hand-in-hand with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to build creative, business-friendly solutions that protect our customers and drive growth. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy tackling novel challenges, and take pride in your work, we'd love to meet you!
Responsibilities:
- Strategic Product Counseling: Serve as the go-to legal advisor for product and eng, ensuring our solutions balance innovation with compliance in a user-friendly way.
- User-Facing Legal Terms: Draft, refine, and humanize our terms of service, privacy policies, and user agreements, making them clear, approachable, and confidence-inspiring.
- Delightful Efficiency: Build scalable legal processes (templates, playbooks, self-serve tools) that empower teams to move fast and smart.
- Privacy by Design: Lead our privacy initiatives, proactively addressing CCPA/CPRA, GLBA, and other regulatory frameworks while driving a privacy-first culture within the company.
- Cross-functional Innovation: Work across departments to identify opportunities where legal expertise can drive product innovation.
- 5-8 years of legal experience, including at least 3+ years advising on FinTech product counseling, privacy compliance, and user-facing legal terms.
- JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- Strong expertise in U.S. privacy laws (CCPA/CPRA, GLBA) and a pragmatic approach to compliance in a rapidly evolving tech landscape.
- Proven ability to draft & maintain user-friendly legal terms that enhance trust and user experience.
- A business-oriented mindset—you see legal as an enabler and can translate complex legal concepts into actionable strategies.
- Experience working with frontier technologies (AI, machine learning, large language models) and understanding their legal implications.
- Exceptional communication skills—you can explain nuanced legal issues to non-legal stakeholders in a way that's engaging, concise, and practical.
- A bias for action & ownership—you love solving problems, taking initiative, and working collaboratively in an agile startup environment.
- A Financial Solutions & Resources for Self-Employed Businesses is the first online back office platform designed for Businesses-of-One.
- Tax is a very challenging space, and you will grow fast.
- We were backed by top-tier VCs.
- We promote an open and transparent culture within the company.
- We're fast-paced, and you learn every day.
