Law degree (JD) strongly preferred, ideally with compliance, corporate or commercial experience.
Seasoned professional with a record of building processes from scratch in a growing organization.
Sound judgment on the commercial and legal implications of agreements.
Highly organized, with strong project management and follow-through.
Able to build working relationships and influence stakeholders across departments and with outside counsel.
Self-directed: takes a goal and builds the plan without step-by-step direction.
Financial services or lending experience is a plus.
Responsibilities
Manage the company's outside counsel relationships across various workstreams.
Ensure no outside counsel work starts without a signed engagement letter.
Review, challenge, and negotiate outside counsel invoices, tracking hours against scope.
Decide when a matter requires outside counsel versus in-house handling.
Review routine agreements, leases, and vendor contracts, including renewals and exits.
Understand commercial and legal issues in capital markets agreements and flag risks early.
Lead transactions and agreements to completion, coordinating with counsel and internal stakeholders.
Design and run onboarding workflows for counterparties, including document collection and legal sign-off.
Define ownership of administrative and compliance tasks and coordinate across departments to ensure timely completion.
Benefits
Robust medical coverage with costs primarily covered by the employer.
Plan for your future with our 401(k) retirement savings program.
Save on your daily commute with pre-tax transportation options.
Access free and confidential support through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Tools and guidance to help you reach your financial goals with financial wellness resources.
Enjoy 15 days of paid time off annually, plus company-observed holidays.
Take care of your health with 5 paid sick days per year.
Full Job Description
About The Role:
We are hiring a seasoned, legally trained operator to own the company's administrative, compliance and legal-coordination work end to end. The role combines compliance officer, project manager, corporate operations and legal coordinator, close to an administrative officer. This is a builder role, not a rule-follower role. Leadership sets the direction and the goal; this person designs the process, routes it across departments and makes sure it gets done. A law degree is valued for judgment, but the role does not draft complex legal documents.
What You'll Do:
Legal coordination and outside counsel management
Manage the company's outside counsel relationships across workstreams: vendor contracts and leases, employment, corporate matters, warehouse facilities and the 52-state loan document set.
Make sure no outside counsel work starts without a signed engagement letter.
Review, challenge and negotiate outside counsel invoices, and track hours against scope.
Decide when a matter needs outside counsel and when it can be handled in-house.
First-pass legal and contract review
Review routine agreements, leases and vendor contracts, including contract renewals and exits.
Understand the commercial and legal issues in capital markets agreements (for example MLPAs) and flag risks early.
Make sure every agreement gets a knowledgeable review before signature.
Process ownership and project management
Lead transactions and agreements to completion, working with counsel and internal stakeholders so nothing stalls.
Design and run onboarding workflows for counterparties: document collection, background checks, record storage, and legal and capital markets sign-off.
Turn leadership's direction into written checklists, routing and clear handoffs.
Corporate administration and cross-department coordination
Define who owns each administrative and compliance task, such as entity renewals and corporate filings.
Coordinate across departments to get administrative, compliance and risk work done on time.
Build and maintain the policies, procedures and records that make these processes repeatable.
Qualifications:
Law degree (JD) strongly preferred, ideally with compliance, corporate or commercial experience.
Seasoned professional with a record of building processes from scratch in a growing organization.
Sound judgment on the commercial and legal implications of agreements.
Highly organized, with strong project management and follow-through.
Able to build working relationships and influence stakeholders across departments and with outside counsel.
Self-directed: takes a goal and builds the plan without step-by-step direction.
Financial services or lending experience is a plus.
What We Offer:
We believe in supporting our employees both professionally and personally. Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
Health Insurance - Robust medical coverage with costs primarily covered by the employer.
401(k) Retirement Plan - Plan for your future with our retirement savings program.
Commuter Benefits Program - Save on your daily commute with pre-tax transportation options.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - Access free and confidential support for personal or professional challenges.
Financial Wellness Resources - Tools and guidance to help you reach your financial goals.
Paid Time Off - Enjoy 15 days of PTO annually, plus company-observed holidays.
Sick Leave - Take care of your health with 5 paid sick days per year.
