Lawyer – Financial Services

Overview

This role is a remote, full-time legal position based in New York. The employer is building an AI-native law firm in the US and is seeking its first lawyer to advise banks, funds, and insurers from New York.

You will run end-to-end mandates for sophisticated financial-sector clients, combining regulatory, transactional, and advisory work with a product-focused approach. Working directly with the managing partner, founders, and engineers, you will turn your expertise into reusable AI-native services the firm can deploy for future clients.

Responsibilities

Client work

• 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

Productizing the practice

• Turn each matter into a reusable, AI-native service, including analysis, precedents, and decision logic
• Work with engineers to build the tooling that performs the work alongside your expertise
• Set quality and review standards to make AI-produced legal work defensible

Building the firm

• Help stand up the New York practice, including structure, intake, precedent library, and engagement terms
• Develop the client base with the founders, from first conversation to signed mandate
• Bring in and mentor the 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
• Commercially sharp: able to read what a client needs and price and scope the work accordingly
• Entrepreneurial: interested in building a firm from the first mandate
• Native/fluent English and 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., automation, agent, or workflow), not only using it

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary (New York): $250K–$450K
• Bonus offered

Location

• New York
• Remote

Legal Services Note

Legal services in the US are provided by an independent law firm owned by licensed attorneys. The employer provides the technology and operations partner support.