About the roleCloaked is hiring a Product Counsel to serve as a core legal partner to Product, Engineering, Compliance, and business teams as we build the next generation of AI-native privacy, identity, and financial-services products. This role will have particular ownership of Cloaked Pay and other regulated product surfaces, but the mandate is broader: embed with product teams, help shape products from concept through launch, and translate legal and regulatory requirements into practical product decisions.
The core mandate is to operate as a product lawyer, not just a reviewer at the end of the process. You will understand how Cloaked products and AI-enabled features actually work, identify where the law is black, white, or gray, pressure-test compliance decisions, and give Product a practical path forward without sending every novel question to outside counsel. You will help translate financial-services, privacy, consumer-protection, and emerging AI requirements into product architecture, user experiences, disclosures, controls, and operating workflows.
You will also support the commercial agreements that enable our products - including enterprise, partnership, vendor, AI/data, and payments agreements - and help structure relationships with banks, processors, model and infrastructure providers, and other strategic partners. Because this is a lean legal team, you will also have opportunities to take on adjacent corporate and general legal matters. Deep financial-services expertise remains important, but the strongest candidates will pair it with product counseling instincts and comfort navigating AI, privacy, and data issues.
What you'll doProduct & AI Counseling- Serve as embedded Product Counsel for Cloaked Pay and other AI-enabled privacy, identity, and financial-services products, partnering directly with Product, Engineering, Design, and Compliance from ideation through launch and ongoing operation.
- Advise on new products and features where the legal or regulatory answer is not obvious, including AI-driven workflows, agentic experiences, automated decisioning, personalization, data use, and consumer-facing product claims; distinguish hard requirements from judgment calls and help the business make calibrated risk decisions.
- Counsel on adjacent privacy, cybersecurity, AI governance, marketing, consumer-protection, and general business-law matters as needed in a small, fast-moving legal team.
Financial Services & Payments- Advise on consumer payments and credit-card regulatory requirements, including Regulation E, Regulation Z where applicable, GLBA, UDAAP/UDAP, FCRA, BSA/AML concepts, prepaid access and money-transmission considerations, Nacha requirements, and card-network rules.
- Review and challenge financial-services compliance analyses and controls; help ensure regulatory requirements are accurately translated into product flows, disclosures, policies, procedures, and operational workflows.
- Lead legal work across the Cloaked Pay ecosystem, including issuing-bank/BIN-sponsor relationships, program managers, processors, tokenization and network partners, cardholder terms and disclosures, funding and settlement structures, disputes, and related vendor arrangements.
Commercial & Strategic Partnerships- Own and negotiate product-enabling agreements, including enterprise and end-customer agreements, AI/model and data-provider agreements, MSAs, SOWs, order forms, DPAs, NDAs, procurement agreements, partnerships, technology integrations, and vendor contracts.
- Partner with Product, Sales, Partnerships, and Engineering to move product launches and agreements forward efficiently while protecting the issues that materially matter to Cloaked.
Corporate & General Legal- Support corporate legal work as needed, including entity formations, corporate records and maintenance, filings, governance support, and coordination with outside corporate counsel.
Who you are- You're a product person who happens to be a lawyer - you want to understand how things actually work, not advise from the sidelines
- You're energized by AI and emerging technology and excited to help shape what responsible innovation looks like
- You're comfortable in the gray - you use judgment to find a responsible path forward when the law doesn't provide a perfect answer
- You give answers, not just analysis - you explain the risk, make a recommendation, and help the business move
- You have strong judgment and low ego - you know when to push, when to compromise, and when to bring in deeper expertise
What skills and experience will help you- Approximately 7-10 years of legal practice, with meaningful product-counseling experience and strong exposure to financial-services, payments, banking, credit-card, fintech, privacy, or AI-enabled technology products.
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar admission in good standing.
- Deep, hands-on consumer financial-services regulatory experience. You have applied the rules to live products and can translate them into practical product and compliance decisions.
- Strong payments or card experience - ideally involving card issuing, consumer credit, virtual cards, payment processing, sponsor-bank/program-manager relationships, or comparable payments infrastructure.
- Strong commercial contracting ability across enterprise, procurement, vendor, partnership, and technology agreements. You are comfortable owning negotiations rather than simply advising from the sidelines.
- Product-lawyer judgment: you can sit with product managers and engineers, understand a proposed feature or technical flow, identify legal issues early, and give a clear recommendation about how to build and launch responsibly.
- Comfort operating in a startup environment where Product and Engineering move quickly, the legal team is lean, and the right answer is often practical rather than academic.
Nice to have- In-house product-counsel experience at a fintech, bank, card issuer, payments company, AI company, consumer technology company, or platform business with meaningful regulated product exposure.
- Experience supporting consumer credit cards, BNPL/installment lending, consumer payments, issuing, acquiring, or similar financial products.
- Prior law-firm, regulatory, or government experience focused on consumer financial services, paired with a clear desire to operate hands-on inside a fast-moving company.
- Experience counseling on privacy, cybersecurity, AI governance, data use, automated systems, or consumer-protection issues, particularly where they intersect with financial products and consumer data.
- Corporate experience such as entity formation, corporate maintenance, governance, or related filings.
