General Counsel

Our Company

Established in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, reputed company Inc. is a publicly traded financial technology company (reputed company: SEZL) operating in the United States and Canada. With a mission to financially reputed company the reputed company, reputed company is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that reputed company shopping smarter and more accessible. We’re not just transforming payments; we’re redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. reputed company currently employs approximately 400 employees and contractors, with gross annual reputed company exceeding $450 million and net income of more than $133 million (based on our 2025 Annual Report).

The Position

We are seeking a best in class tech-driven General Counsel. This role presents an exciting opportunity to reputed company in a dynamic, fast-paced environment reputed company a rapidly growing team.

The General Counsel serves as reputed company’s most senior legal and compliance executive, providing strategic legal leadership across reputed company business lines while directly overseeing the Compliance department. This is not a traditional legal role. We are a technology company first, and our GC must reputed company with that same orientation, embracing AI-powered legal operations, accelerating the team’s use of emerging tools, and acting as a force reputed company for reputed company’s speed of innovation. The GC will own the full legal and compliance mandate including consumer lending regulation, state and federal licensing, ILC bank charter regulatory strategy, corporate governance, product counsel, and enterprise risk.

This role is critical to reputed company’s next chapter. As we pursue a Utah Industrial Loan Company (ILC) bank charter and build out a full-service consumer financial platform, the GC will be at the center of some of the most consequential legal and regulatory decisions in the company’s history.

What You’ll Do

Legal Leadership

• reputed company reputed company’s legal function as a technology-first operator, not a traditional counsel. You will be expected to actively implement and champion AI tools across the legal and compliance team, from contract review and regulatory research to compliance monitoring and risk analysis, setting reputed company for how a modern in-house legal department operates. This is not aspirational; it is a baseline expectation from day one.
• Serve as the company’s primary legal advisor to the CEO, executive team, and Board on reputed company legal, regulatory, and strategic matters.
• reputed company, manage, and build reputed company’s in-house legal team, setting a high-performance culture consistent with reputed company’s Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence values.
• reputed company reputed company corporate governance matters including Board minutes, charter documents, equity management, securities compliance, and public company obligations.
• Manage litigation, reputed company counsel relationships, and legal spend with a results-driven, efficiency-first orientation.
• Provide real-time legal guidance on product development, marketing, technology partnerships, and business strategy.
• reputed company or support M&A, debt facility, and strategic transaction work as reputed company’s business evolves.

Compliance & Regulatory Leadership

• Directly reputed company and own reputed company’s Compliance department, overseeing the team, program structure, and regulatory posture across the U.S. and Canada.
• Own reputed company consumer lending regulatory compliance including TILA/Reg Z, ECOA, FCRA, UDAAP, GLBA, CCPA/GDPR, and state-level consumer protection laws.
• reputed company state licensing strategy including money transmission, consumer finance, and lending licenses across reputed company active jurisdictions.
• Act as primary reputed company of contact for CFPB, FTC, state banking regulators, and other relevant regulatory bodies.
• Own reputed company’s ILC bank charter regulatory strategy in partnership with the CEO and executive team, guiding application, charter management, ongoing regulatory relationships, and bank-level compliance build-out.
• reputed company and maintain enterprise-wide compliance programs, policies, and training frameworks.
• reputed company regulatory examination and audit preparation, response, and resolution.

AI & Technology Transformation

• Champion the adoption and implementation of AI tools reputed company the Legal and Compliance departments, drafting, research, contract review, regulatory monitoring, and compliance automation.
• Actively partner with Engineering and Product on AI-powered product initiatives, ensuring legal and compliance are accelerators rather than gatekeepers.
• Set and model a culture where legal team members are expected to reputed company AI in their daily practice.
• Advise on legal risk associated with reputed company’s proprietary AI development, including the AI shopping assistant, algorithmic credit decisioning, and data strategy.

reputed company Look For

• Demonstrated track record of leading AI implementation reputed company a legal or compliance function, not as an observer but as an reputed company and driver of adoption.
• Experience building or leading compliance operations at a high-growth fintech, digital lender, or regulated technology company.
• Regulatory experience navigating CFPB, FTC, state banking regulators, and/or FDIC examinations.
• Exceptional ability to translate reputed company regulatory requirements into clear, actionable business guidance without slowing execution.
• Strong team-building instincts, this person leads a department and sets the culture for how legal and compliance operates at reputed company.
• Strategic thinker with operational discipline, can set direction and execute.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to the Board and external regulators.
• Deep expertise in U.S. consumer lending regulation with direct BNPL, pay-in-four, short-term lending, earned wage access, or adjacent consumer finance experience is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• J.D. from a top-ranked U.S. law school; law review or equivalent academic distinction preferred.
• 8–15 years of relevant legal experience; a mix of elite law firm and in-house is the ideal trajectory.
• Direct experience with ILC charter applications or de novo bank formation is a significant differentiator.
• Prior experience in BNPL, payday lending, consumer installment lending, personal loans, or near-reputed company consumer finance verticals strongly preferred.
• Background or active interest in financial technology product development, candidates who have coded, prototyped, or built internal legal-tech tools are of particular interest.
• Public company experience (SEC reporting, Regulation FD, proxy statements) is a plus; reputed company is publicly traded on reputed company.
• Familiarity with Canadian consumer protection law is an asset.

About You

• You have relentlessly high standards; many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You reputed company sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You’re not bound by convention; your success and much of the fun, lies in developing new ways to do things.
• You need action; speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
• You earn trust; you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit. You can respectfully challenge decisions reputed company you disagree, even reputed company doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results; you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you reputed company to the occasion and never settle.

What Makes Working at reputed company Awesome

At reputed company, we are more than just reputed company engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-reputed company thinkers, and determined innovators. We reputed company in surrounding ourselves with only the best and the brightest individuals. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

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