About Attain
Built for consumers and companies, alike. In a world driven by data, we believe consumers and businesses can coexist. Our founders had a vision to empower consumers to leverage their greatest asset, their data, in exchange for modern financial services. Built with this vision in mind, our platform allows consumers to access savings tools, earned wages and rewards without cost or hidden fees. In exchange, they give permission to use their real-time data for research, insights and targeted advertising.
At Attain, your contribution will help us build a more equitable and efficient data sharing ecosystem, whether helping consumers access modern financial services or businesses leverage data to achieve better outcomes. You'll have the opportunity to work directly with hands-on leaders and mission-driven individuals every day.
Attain office hybrid schedule (where applicable):
New York, NY: 4 days in-office; 1 day remote
Chicago, IL: 4 days in-office; 1 day remote
About the role
Legal at Attain is a small, high-leverage function. As Assistant General Counsel, Fintech, you'll be one of three embedded in-house lawyers, reporting directly to the General Counsel. You'll work alongside the Assistant General Counsel for our Enterprise business.
This is a generalist in-house role with a focus on consumer fintech. You'll own the legal needs of our fintech business end to end, including earned wage access and our credit-related products and services, across product advisory, litigation, regulatory, and privacy. You'll know the products and the regulators as well as anyone at the company, and you'll be the lawyer the business calls first.
The quality that matters most is autonomy. You'll drive matters with full ownership, within agreed parameters, and you'll have the judgment to escalate when something warrants it. Put plainly, we're looking for someone who manages up rather than someone who needs managing. For the right person, this role is a real path to becoming a general counsel, with the scope and exposure to learn the job from the inside.
The role is proactive by design. You'll anticipate issues and shape decisions before they're made, and you'll help build a modern legal function rather than inherit one, so that a small team covers the ground of a team twice its size.
You'll be a great fit for the role if
You have deep consumer fintech experience, want to embed in the business, and want to own its legal needs end to end rather than advise it from a distance
You want to get ahead of issues by building review cadences, policies, and programs, and you don't wait for matters to arrive
You want to build the function's systems rather than just work its queue, and you're already using AI tools rather than planning to
You're comfortable being the only lawyer in the room on your matters, with the judgment to recognize early when something needs escalation or outside expertise
You can tell real risk apart from theoretical risk and can give the business a clear answer rather than a laundry list of considerations
What a typical week will look like
Serve as the lead lawyer for the consumer fintech business, advising product, marketing, growth, finance, and compliance teams on new features, app and website content, and customer-facing terms
Manage licensing and registrations, including applications, renewals, license maintenance, regulatory examinations, and responses to regulator inquiries
Support the expansion of our consumer fintech business, including new products
Oversee litigation, arbitration, and regulatory matters for the fintech business, directing outside counsel on strategy, scope, budget, and rate discipline
Run a periodic review cadence across our apps, websites, and public materials, so what we say and do stays current with the law and with the product
Refresh policies and procedures and set a recurring training calendar for employees
Build the legal operations layer with AI wherever possible: identify what can be…