General Counsel

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It isn’t easy learning about money. Schools don’t teach you and families don’t always talk about finances. Traditional banks make it even harder to get ahead by charging fees for standard services like checking accounts, atm's and even spending cards.

51 - 200 employees

📋 Description

• We seek an experienced and business-minded General Counsel to join our team to lead our legal, regulatory, privacy, and policy functions. • Build, scale, and oversee Step’s legal, regulatory, privacy, and product compliance functions. • Operate as one of our primary product architects. • Be one of the closest advisors and confidants to Step’s executive team. • Be the authority on all applicable financial, banking, investing, consumer-protection, and marketing regulations. • As Corporate Secretary, manage functions around Step’s equity program, corporate governance. • Ensure Step’s legal and business interests are protected in all commercial transactions. • Liaise with Step’s external banking partners to ensure smooth product execution.

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. from an accredited law school and a member of good standing in a state bar, preferably California. • 10+ years of experience at one or more law firms and corporate legal departments. Strong preference for candidates with significant prior experience at a fast-paced fintech company (at a leadership level, either as a general counsel or a deputy general counsel managing a significant legal function). • Mastery of relevant financial and marketing regulations, including Reg B, Reg E, Reg Z, UDAP, UDAAP, SEC Advisers Act, Bank Secrecy Act (KYC/AML). • Experience and familiarity with all relevant privacy regulations, especially COPPA, CPPA, CPRA, and all upcoming and evolving regulations in the space (such as the California Age Appropriate Design Code Act). • Familiarity with representing the interests of a company in legislative and judicial settings as well as in front of regulatory agencies. • Working knowledge of corporate legal functions such as employment, IP (patents, trademarks, open source, copyrights, trade secrets), immigration, and contracts management.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience, with full medical and dental benefits 💸 • High potential for growth 📈 • Stock in an early-stage startup 🤩 • Flexible WFH and vacation policy 🏝 • Paid parental Leave 🐣 • Employee referral program 👯‍♀️👯 • 401K plan 💪🏻