Kovo

AI Engineer

• Own legal and compliance end-to-end as Kovo's first and sole legal and compliance hire
• Stand up new consumer financial products from zero to one and scale them
• Work with product and engineering to design products with minimal licenses and obligations
• Define entity, licensing, and bank-partner posture for each product
• Write and obtain approval for policies, procedures, disclosures, and agreements
• Review marketing, product flows, and partnerships before launch
• Build scalable legal and compliance review processes
• Reconcile legal and compliance posture across the product suite
• Maintain existing legal and compliance operations
• Codify, automate, or retire manual processes
• Run litigation defense, dispute resolution, complaints, exams, and audits
• Own bank and partner compliance relationships, privacy, and BSA/AML/KYC and fraud policy
• Build and maintain agentic workflows for research, drafting, policy maintenance, monitoring, and reconciliation
• Review and maintain the quality of agent-generated work
• Engage and manage outside counsel when necessary
• Provide clear, actionable written guidance to founders and cross-functional teams
• Represent Kovo with banks, partners, regulators, and auditors
• Report to a founder based in Austin, Texas

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