Overview
This role is for the firm’s first lawyer advising banks, funds, and insurers out of New York. The position combines real financial-sector legal work with building AI-native, productized legal services—turning matters into reusable services for future clients.
Responsibilities
- Advise banks, asset managers, funds, and insurers on regulatory, transactional, and structuring questions across US and cross-border mandates
- Own matters end-to-end, including scoping, analysis, memos, documentation, negotiation, and regulator-facing work
- Serve as the trusted counterpart to general counsel, heads of compliance, and in-house teams
- Convert each matter into a reusable, AI-native service, including analysis, precedents, and decision logic
- Work side by side with engineers to build the tooling that does the work with you
- Set the quality bar and review standards to make AI-produced legal work defensible
- Help stand up the New York practice, including structure, intake, precedent library, and engagement terms
- Develop the client base from first conversation to signed mandate
- Bring in and mentor lawyers who follow you
Requirements
- Admitted to the New York bar, with a clean disciplinary record
- Several years at a leading US firm or in-house at a bank, fund, or insurer, with real ownership of financial-sector matters
- Deep experience in at least one of:
- banking and financial regulation
- funds and asset management
- insurance regulatory
- structured products
- financial transactions
- Advisory and transactional by temperament
- Commercial judgment: ability to read what a client actually needs and price and scope work accordingly
- Entrepreneurial mindset, with interest in building a firm from the first mandate
- Native/fluent English, based in or moving to New York
Preferred Qualifications
- Existing relationships with GCs or compliance leadership at banks, funds, or insurers
- Cross-border experience with European financial institutions
- Experience building with AI (e.g., an automation, an agent, or a workflow)
Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary: $250K – $450K (New York)
- Bonus offers
Location
- Remote
- New York
- Full time
Additional Information
Legal services in the US are provided by an independent law firm owned by licensed attorneys. Technology and operations are supported by the organization’s technology partner.