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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in legal and compliance management for consumer financial products, including drafting policies, managing regulatory relationships, and ensuring adherence to BSA/AML/KYC standards. Proficient in collaborating with cross-functional teams and maintaining operational efficiency through automation and workflow management.
Highest-signal resume keywords
JD And Active Bar AdmissionExperience With FCRA And Credit ReportingBSA/AML/KYC Compliance ManagementRegulated Consumer Product Lifecycle ManagementStrong Writing Skills
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Hard Skills
Legal DraftingCompliance ManagementPolicy DevelopmentRegulatory Approval ProcessesLicensing RequirementsDispute ResolutionLitigation DefenseWorkflow AutomationConsumer Financial ProductsData Analysis
Soft Skills
Attention To DetailOrganizational SkillsClear CommunicationCross-Functional CollaborationJudgment And Decision-Making
Tools & Technologies
AI ToolsCompliance SoftwareLegal Research ToolsData Management SystemsWorkflow Management Systems
Industry Keywords
FintechConsumer Financial ProductsBank Partnership ProgramsState Lending LicensingMoney-Transmission LicensingRegulatory ComplianceConsumer Protection LawsECOATILA/Reg ZUDAAP
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own legal and compliance end-to-end as Kovo’s sole legal and compliance hire
- Stand up new consumer financial products from zero to one and scale them
- Design products with product and engineering to minimize licenses and obligations
- Define entity, licensing, and bank-partner posture for each product
- Draft policies, procedures, disclosures, and agreements and obtain partner and regulator approval
- Review marketing, product flows, and partnerships before launch
- 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
- Manage quality of agent-produced work and retain responsibility for judgment and sign-off
- Engage and manage outside counsel when necessary
- Provide clear written guidance to founders and cross-functional teams
- Represent Kovo with banks, partners, regulators, and auditors
- Report to one of the founders based in Austin, Texas
Requirements
What you’ll need- Practicing attorney with JD and active bar admission in a US state
- Prior legal or compliance role at a fintech startup, ideally a fast-growing one
- Mid-career experience taking a regulated consumer product through its full lifecycle
- Hands-on experience with FCRA and credit reporting, UDAAP, TILA/Reg Z, ECOA, EFTA/Reg E, state lending and money-transmission licensing, bank partnership programs, and BSA/AML/KYC
- Experience managing outside counsel and regulator or bank-partner relationships directly
- Strong preference for a multidisciplinary business, engineering, or product background
- Technically proficient; comfortable reading code and data, pulling numbers, and building workflows with AI tools
- Extremely organized with uncommon attention to detail
- Clear, concise writing skills
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
Benefits
Comp & perks- 0.02% – 0.06% equity
- Benefits offered
- Fully remote work
- High ownership with minimal bureaucracy
- Speed, learning, and impact as core values