About the role

Fig is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to support our next stage of growth. Reporting to the General Counsel, you will be a hands-on legal advisor to teams across Fig on commercial, privacy, product, operational, and regulatory matters.

This role is ideal for a lawyer who understands the complexity of financial services, wants to work close to the business, and enjoys doing the work directly.

You may be negotiating a key vendor agreement one day and advising on a product launch, privacy question, consumer-facing process, or responsible use of AI the next. The pace is fast, priorities can shift quickly, and the work requires judgment, ownership, and comfort making decisions with imperfect information.

What you'll do

• Act as a trusted legal advisor to teams across Fig on commercial, product, privacy, consumer, technology, marketing, and operational matters.
• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including SaaS agreements, vendor and service provider agreements, NDAs, partnership agreements, and other business-critical contracts.
• Provide practical legal advice on product and business initiatives, including issues relating to consumer lending, privacy, disclosures, customer communications, vendor management, and digital financial services.
• Advise on privacy and data matters, including data use, consent, retention, vendor arrangements, and privacy-by-design considerations.
• Advise on the responsible use of AI and emerging technologies across the business, including legal, privacy, governance, and risk considerations.
• Develop and improve contract templates, playbooks, policies, and practical guidance that help the business operate and scale efficiently and consistently.

You'll succeed here if you have

• 5 to 8 years of legal experience, ideally with exposure to financial services, fintech, banking, lending, payments, insurance, consumer finance, technology, or another regulated industry.
• Strong commercial contracting experience, including the ability to draft, review, negotiate, and close agreements with good judgment and limited hand-holding.
• Comfort working with regulated products or services, including the ability to translate legal and regulatory requirements into clear and business-oriented guidance.
• Experience with privacy, data, technology, vendor, or consumer-facing legal issues.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to give clear and practical advice to both legal and non-legal stakeholders.
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to build trust across functions while maintaining independent legal judgment.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment with limited structure, shifting priorities. You take ownership, make sound decisions, and have a shared sense of purpose to "Get Stuff Done" (#GSD).
• Full professional proficiency in French and English, both written and spoken. This helps you collaborate with stakeholders and regulators based in Quebec and across Canada.
• Member in good standing of a provincial bar in Canada or of the Chambre des notaires du Québec.

Why Fig?

• Impact and autonomy: Fig is still small enough that your legal advice will directly shape business decisions. You will have room to own files, make recommendations, and take responsibility for your judgment, while working closely with the General Counsel and business leaders.
• Strong culture: Work in a team that values impact, accountability, curiosity, and collaboration.
• Flexibility and balance: This role requires ownership and responsiveness, but we are intentional about building a culture where strong performance and work-life balance can coexist. We offer a hybrid work environment with a balance of remote and in-office work.
• Competitive compensation: Expected base salary range between $120 000 and $160 000, plus the opportunity to earn an annual incentive bonus tied to performance.
• Retirement savings program: Employer matching to support your long-term financial goals.
• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, and vision group insurance, as well as health and wellness spending accounts.
• Time off: Generous vacation and wellness time to support rest and recharge.
• Parental support: Parental leave top-up to support your growing family.
• Growth and Development: Continuing education stipend to support your professional development.

$120,000 - $160,000 a year

Next steps

We appreciate your interest in joining Fig. Our team will review applications and contact candidates selected to move forward in the process.
AI disclosure

We may use AI tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our team but do not replace human judgment, and all hiring decisions are ultimately made by people.

If you have questions about how your information is handled, feel free to reach out to us.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.