Deputy General Counsel

Role Overview

• Lead the legal function: Manage daily operations and budget to perform a broad range of legal work, providing strategic direction, first-rate execution, and mentorship while operating with a high degree of autonomy and relying on strong organizational and prioritization skills.
• Oversee commercial contract management: Draft, structure, review, and negotiate a wide range of agreements, including software service agreements, partnerships, and vendor contracts, aligning outcomes with company objectives.
• Develop the company’s regulatory compliance framework, offering practical solutions that support innovation and growth. Maintain current knowledge of relevant laws, particularly the FCRA. Experience with financial services and the public sector is a plus.
• Advise leadership on risk, compliance, and legal frameworks to support our growth. Research and respond to inquiries relating to complex operational and regulatory issues.
• Collaborate with executives and managers to define and implement company-wide legal and compliance policies. Leverage technology to improve scalability, strengthen collaboration, and achieve superior results faster.
• Corporate governance: Maintain corporate records, assist with financings, and ensure the company remains in good standing. Experience with transactions such as equity fundraising, debt financing, and M&A is a plus.
• Oversee and manage relationships with external legal counsel as needed to ensure high-quality, cost-effective support across jurisdictions and domains.
• Everything else: As our legal chief, you’ll be the point person to help navigate a broad range of matters, including labor, privacy, IP, litigation, immigration, and more.

Requirements

• 4-8 years of legal experience, likely a mix of big law and in-house (or you’re ready to make the jump)
• JD from an ABA accredited program and are an active bar member in any state or regional equivalent
• Distill legal complexity into clear, actionable, data-driven advice for business leaders and technical teams
• Negotiate and manage complex technology transactions, preferably with experience in highly regulated industries
• Understand speed and act with urgency; optimize for business realities, not legal perfection
• Bias towards action and commitment to the success of the whole team
• Evaluate trade-offs and articulate cost-benefit analysis; comfortable with ambiguity and new challenges

Benefits

• Competitive equity package
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible vacation policy
• Fully remote
• High-impact role with significant independence and clear growth trajectory
• Opportunity to shape the future of financial data access