Career Center
New York, New York
Posted: 08-Nov-23
Location: United States - Nationwide
Type: Full Time
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Internal Number: 2023-46488
Come join our amazing team of leaders, learners and world-class legal professionals. We’re part of an amazing organization bringing financial services offerings to market to power prosperity for our customers all over the world! We’re seeking a Sr Assistant General Counsel to support Banking Services while providing guidance to our organization as it exponentially grows its banking/fintech offerings. The ideal candidate will have a depth of commercial/transactional experience within the financial services/financial technology sector, ability to support and collaborate with a diversity of stakeholders, strong team mentality and be driven to grow professionally and personally.
We believe diversity and inclusion among our teammates produces better results and is critical to our success as a global company. We are committed to recruiting, developing, and retaining the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
This role is hybrid with on-site expectations of 2-3 days per week in our Mountain View, CA, San Diego, CA, or Atlanta, GA office.
Responsibilities
- Manage a small team of FinTech attorneys to draft, review, and negotiate agreements and transaction documents, particularly with respect to bank/fintech partnership transactions, payments, innovative financial service alliances, and other third-party service agreements
- Mentor the team and provide professional growth opportunities.
- Liaise with internal stakeholders for input on privacy, data sharing, data security, regulatory and marketing considerations while developing and drafting form contracts for routine transactions – all while minimizing company and customer risk
- Maintain an understanding of regulatory impact in partnering with financial institutions and ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations
- Supporting all internal business units by providing efficient and effective legal counsel
- General transactional/commercial support for other business lines with contract drafting, review and negotiation
- Undertake project work from time to time to support larger initiatives within the team or organization supporting company goals/objectives
- Additional responsibilities as may be assigned as needed
- Work with Legal, Compliance and business teams to implement regulatory changes that impact customer facing products, services, and marketing efforts
- Be tech-savvy and fintech-forward, identifying tools that could aid in the commercial legal support tasks – all to improve processes and efficiencies.
- Provide mentoring and cross-training of colleagues to undertake commercial legal work supporting banking services.
- California Bar membership preferred with no disciplinary history (other state bar membership may be considered)
- Managed small teams of attorneys
- 15+ years of major law firm or large corporation in-house experience, preferably working on financial services, fintech, payments, or related products
- 3+ years in contract drafting, negotiation and deal management for larger business transactions
- Experience with third-party service agreements
- Excellent organizational, time management, and follow-up skills
- A great deal lawyer--willing and able to roll up your sleeves and get into the details of major deals
- Have worked in, or closely with, one or more technology companies to structure complex financial services relationships
- A great communicator and solid project manager, able to effectively prioritize and advance a large number of deals happening simultaneously, often on tight deadlines. Solid understanding of banking operations, payment network rules and other financial services regulatory issues
- Extreme organization skills
