Senior Corporate Counsel
Credit Sesame is a leading financial wellness platform dedicated to helping consumers achieve better financial health through cutting-edge technology and data-driven solutions. With a decade of credit expertise and a proven track record of serving over 18 million users, Credit Sesame leverages AI and advanced analytics to empower individuals to better understand and manage their credit. Our recently launched Sesame Platform extends our mission by providing financial institutions with a turnkey AI-powered credit intelligence solution.
Reporting to our General Counsel, the Senior Corporate Counsel will provide critical legal guidance across the organization, with a focus on regulatory compliance, commercial contracts, and product development. If you're a proactive legal partner who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and enjoys building solutions that drive innovation, we’d like to hear from you.
You'll:
- Provide timely, concise, and actionable legal advice to the Credit Sesame marketing, product, and business teams.
- Provide ideas, solutions and insights that empower the organization to drive growth.
- Draft and implement company policies that have a meaningful impact across the organization.
- Monitor regulatory developments and evolving best practices in financial services, advertising, privacy, and other relevant consumer protection laws and regulations.
- Support training efforts to educate internal teams on legal standards and regulatory expectations.
- Draft, negotiate, and review a variety of commercial contracts, including vendor agreements and partnership deals.
- Develop strong, effective, collaborative relationships with internal and external business partners.
You’re a great fit for our team because you have...
- At least 7 years experience as a licensed attorney with a minimum of 5 years of experience advising fintech companies.
- Extensive experience advising on product and marketing compliance for consumer-facing platforms.
- Deep understanding of consumer protections laws and regulations (e.g. UDAP, UDAAP, FCRA, CROA, GLBA, TILA, state privacy laws, etc.) and the unique challenges faced by fintech companies.
- Solid experience negotiating commercial contracts and familiarity with enterprise SaaS models.
- Exceptional and pragmatic organizational, problem-solving, and project management skills.
- Flexibility and eagerness to be readily available in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex and sensitive issues to internal and external partners in a clear and persuasive manner.
- Prior experience engaging with regulators is a plus.
You'll love it here because...
- you’ll have equity in a pre-IPO company backed by top VCs;
- we offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance;
- we offer a monthly home office stipend;
- we offer a professional development stipend to support your continued growth
- we offer flexible paid time off;
- we have 10 paid holidays and additional 6 Sesame Wellness days;
- we prize EQ and empathy, and have a culture that emphasizes total wellness, including work-life harmony.
We are open to hiring for this role in the following states where we are set up to hire employees: CA, CO, NC, NJ, NV, and TX.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
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