Assistant General Counsel

Overview

This role supports the General Counsel within the organization’s legal department, combining corporate legal work with hands-on legal operations. You will serve as a key legal partner across commercial contracting, dispute management, regulatory initiatives, and legal operations—particularly maintaining and improving the contract and vendor management database.

This position is designed to build depth and resilience in a legal function that currently relies on a single senior attorney. You will handle legal matters that keep the business moving while being mentored by the General Counsel to assume increasingly varied responsibilities.

Responsibilities

Business Support

• Serve as a legal point of contact for internal teams, fielding requests and providing timely guidance
• Assist with regulatory projects and special initiatives as directed by the General Counsel, including international regulatory filings, mergers and acquisitions, and applications for new permissions and activities
• Coordinate document preparation for regulatory submissions, including notarization, apostille, assembly of exhibits, and formatting for filing requirements
• Provide backup to the General Counsel across all legal functions to ensure continuity and coverage

Commercial Contracts

• Negotiate and review commercial contracts with partners, including master agreements and order forms
• Manage routine contract negotiations end-to-end, escalating non-standard terms or high-risk issues to the General Counsel
• Review new contracts against a standardized checklist covering payment terms, exit clauses, reserve provisions, and enforcement mechanisms, flagging deviations for legal review
• Track and document modifications to standard contract terms, ensuring visibility to affected teams

Disputes & Litigation Management

• Handle day-to-day dispute management, including demand letters and pre-litigation matters
• Manage lower-complexity employment matters, coordinating with outside counsel when needed
• Track and respond to litigation deadlines, discovery requests, and regulatory inquiries
• Prepare legal analyses for the risk committee on matters requiring legal review

Legal Operations & Contract Database

• Maintain, improve, and expand the vendor and contract management database (Ivo platform), including partner agreements, order forms, and compliance records
• Develop automated reports on auto-renewal dates, termination windows, and other key contract metrics
• Partner with Compliance to align vendor due diligence workflows with the contract database
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase the efficiency of the legal function

Requirements

• J.D. from an accredited law school
• 5 to 7+ years of experience in a corporate legal department, law firm, or a mix of both
• Substantive knowledge and prior experience in one or more of the following: fintech, brokerage, investment advisory, banking, payments, crypto, or financial services
• Experience in at least two (or more) of the following areas:
  • Commercial contracts
  • Broker-dealer or investment advisor regulation
  • Legal operations
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Cross-border transactions
  • Litigation/disputes
  • Privacy
  • Employment
  • Corporate governance
• Familiarity with contract and vendor management databases and CLM programs
• Comfortable working independently and exercising sound judgment on when to escalate
• Ability to manage multiple matters and workstreams simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration with non-legal stakeholders
• Highly organized with the ability to develop and maintain standardized processes and checklists

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior in-house experience, especially in fintech, brokerage, crypto, payments, banking, or financial services
• Familiarity with international regulatory filings and cross-border compliance requirements
• Knowledge of broker-dealer, RIA, or investment company regulatory frameworks
• Tech savvy with proficiency in spreadsheets, PowerPoints, data analytics, and AI to leverage productivity

Location

Remote-first. Candidates based in the US are required, with New York metro or San Francisco Bay Area a plus.