Financial Technology Legal Counsel
Location Hollywood, FL

Salary $160K to $200K plus commission, benefits and stock options performance package, commensurate with experience. 100% employer paid health benefits

About You 
You have experience in a variety of corporate matters, including negotiating commercial contracts. You own your work and care about building efficient processes. You see yourself as a strategic business partner and a lawyer. You share our values and are committed to embodying and promoting these values every day. You will collaborate with many teams and work closely with and report to the CEO.
Job Description:

• You'll join a financial technology industry leader as its first in-house lawyer.
• You'll lead all commercial contracts negotiations and advise the company on legal issues.
• We are invested in your growth and hope that you will be excited to become a leader of the legal team as we scale.
• Lead negotiations of 100% of commercial contracts, such as software licensing terms, third party contractor agreements, and vendor agreements.
• Own updating our commercial templates, including our master service agreement, vendor agreement, terms of service, and privacy policy.
• Own all corporate state filing compliance requirements.
• Own and manage outside counsel relationships.
• Own all employment agreements.
• Assist leadership with financial compliance matters.
• Manage the capitalization table.
• Advise the Company on how to streamline processes and implement strategy to create efficiencies and scale.
• Proactively identify and advise the company on various corporate obligations including reporting requirements.
• Play a key role in any fundraising and M&A.
• Play a key role in ongoing compliance such as SOC and other third party audits.
• Identify legal and business priorities for the company with an eye toward exit readiness.

 
Qualifications

• 5 years corporate legal experience.
• 3+ years of experience advising B2B software companies in corporate and commercial matters.
• Fluency in negotiating commercial contracts.
• Leadership and management experience or at least a strong, demonstrated interest and potential.
• JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one US state.

 
 Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with financial technology compliance matters.
• Experience with negotiating contract terms with government agencies.