Regulatory Data Associate (Legal Engineer)

Responsiv

$80K — $95K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Juris Doctor (JD) with admission to at least one U.S. jurisdiction or practical experience in Compliance or as a Paralegal at a relevant organization
  • 1 to 3 years of experience in legal, compliance, or regulatory roles, preferably in financial services or similarly regulated industries
  • Experience in interpreting complex regulations and translating them into product requirements
  • Comfortable collaborating with engineering on complex products
  • Exceptional communication skills for explaining regulatory challenges to diverse audiences

Responsibilities

  • Establish and maintain performance benchmarks for product modules as the 'Truth Set' owner
  • Review and critique software versions as a 'user champion' utilizing quantitative scorecards
  • Drive root cause analysis for model improvements, ensuring accurate sourcing and summarization
  • Engage with customers to identify compliance challenges and communicate product value
  • Participate in industry events to represent the company and gather market insights
  • Develop tailored demo environments showcasing platform efficacy for industry-specific regulatory obligations
  • Maintain high standards of responsiveness in a fast-paced work environment

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape regulatory insights into impactful product features
  • Engagement with industry leaders and influencers through events and direct interactions
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive product excellence
  • Fast-paced, dynamic work environment that encourages adaptability and quick decision-making
  • Ownership of key performance metrics and the opportunity to set industry standards
Full Job Description


Regulatory Data Associate Overview

The Regulatory DataAssociate is the bridge between the law and the product. You'll translate evolving regulations into clear specs, truth sets, and demos, then partner with engineering to ship features that stand up to expert scrutiny. You'll also face the market-pressure-testing the product with customers, explaining decisions, and driving root-cause analyses when we can do better. Embedded within our product organization, you will help set the bar for the industry-turning regulatory insight into shippable breakthroughs that move our roadmap and the market.

Product: Define What "Great" Looks Like

  • Own our Truth Set: Establish and maintain a gold-standard benchmark for each module's performance and ensure consistency and accuracy across all outputs. This includes drafting comprehensive, long-form regulatory memos to cover regulatory research, requirements extraction, gap analysis, and other platform areas. You'll review our horizon scanner alerts and our regulatory topic maps. Continuously refine these truth sets based on emerging regulations, industry best practices, and user feedback.
  • Structured & Unstructured Feedback: Act as the "user champion" by reviewing and critiquing preliminary versions of the software. Use quantitative scorecards (e.g., accuracy, relevance, comprehensiveness) to evaluate new model updates.


Own the Root Cause Analysis Process

  • When a model can be improved, drive the end-to-end investigation. Assess whether the correct sources were identified, the right information was extracted, and if the the summarized output was complete and accurate. Work with engineering to define corrective actions, and write clear and thorough customer responses.


Be a Market-Facing Thought Leader

  • Engage with Customers & Prospects: Join calls to uncover compliance pain points, align on expectations, and showcase Responsiv's domain expertise. Clearly communicate the product's value in addressing specific regulatory challenges.
  • Represent Responsiv at Industry Events: Participate in key conferences, panels, and roundtables. Build relationships with compliance executives, gather market insights, and bolster Responsiv's thought leadership.


Product Marketing: Own the Demo

  • Build Industry-Specific Demos: Partner with product marketing to develop comprehensive demo environments-complete with synthetic real-world data-for various industries (e.g., Private Equity, Tier 1 Banks, Tier 2 Banks).
  • Show how Responsiv's platform addresses each sector's unique regulatory obligations, highlighting the real-world impact of our software.


Operate well in a fast-paced environment.

Build competence in our product. You will have high expectations for our team and of yourself as we expect to get work done with quality and speed. You will own the SLAs to respond quickly to prospect and customer questions, as well as internal colleagues. Your ability to adapt, shift and change quickly as the environment changes will give you an edge .

Qualifications

  • Juris Doctor (JD) with admission to at least one U.S. jurisdiction or practical experience in Compliance or as a Paralegal at a relevant organization
  • Subject Matter Expertise: 1 to 3 years in legal, compliance, or regulatory roles, ideally within financial services or similarly regulated industries.
  • Regulatory Analysis Experience: Demonstrated track record of interpreting complex regulations and translating them into tangible product or program requirements.
  • Technical Collaboration: Comfort working with complex products
  • Exceptional Communication: Ability to articulate complex regulatory scenarios in an accessible, solution-oriented manner to internal and external stakeholders.

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