Assistant General Counsel, Fintech

Legal at Attain is a small, high-leverage function. As Assistant General Counsel, Fintech, you'll be one of three embedded in-house lawyers, reporting directly to the General Counsel, and will work alongside the Assistant General Counsel for the Enterprise business. This is a generalist in-house role with a focus on consumer fintech. You'll own the legal needs of the fintech business end to end, including earned wage access and credit-related products and services, across product advisory, litigation, regulatory, and privacy. The role is proactive by design and focuses on autonomy, with full ownership of matters within agreed parameters.

Responsibilities

Serve as the lead lawyer for the consumer fintech business, advising product, marketing, growth, finance, and compliance teams on new features, app and website content, and customer-facing terms; Manage licensing and registrations, including applications, renewals, license maintenance, regulatory examinations, and responses to regulator inquiries; Support the expansion of the consumer fintech business, including new products; Oversee litigation, arbitration, and regulatory matters for the fintech business, directing outside counsel on strategy, scope, budget, and rate discipline; Run a periodic review cadence across apps, websites, and public materials; Refresh policies and procedures and set a recurring training calendar for employees; Build a third-party vendor oversight program; Build the legal operations layer with AI wherever possible, including intake, playbooks, self-service templates, first-pass review, matter management, and reporting; Cover legal needs across the whole company as they arise, including shared services, employment, IP, corporate, financings, insurance, and state-level licensing

Requirements

JD and active bar membership in good standing; Approximately 7+ years of post-JD experience, combining law firm training with time in-house; Substantial consumer fintech experience, ideally with earned wage access, bank partnerships, and credit products; Working knowledge of the main laws governing earned wage access, credit products, and the wider range of fintech offerings, including TILA and Regulation Z, EFTA and Regulation E, FCRA, the Military Lending Act, TCPA, UDAAP, GLBA, and state licensing and registration regimes; Experience managing licensing, regulatory examinations and inquiries, litigation, and arbitration at the state or federal level, including directing outside counsel; Legal operations experience and genuine AI fluency, including building or being eager to build playbooks, self-service templates, structured intake, and AI-assisted review; Excellent written and verbal communication, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

Nice to have

Experience with data privacy; Experience with vendor oversight programs; Experience with government affairs