check-technologies - Head of Legal & Compliance
Requirements
• This role sits on the Leadership Team and reports directly to the CEO. You'll manage a small legal and compliance team, including our our BSA/AML compliance officer, as well as outside counsel relationships. • Juris Doctorate and active bar membership, with strong academic and professional credentials. NY or CA bar preferred. • 6+ years of related professional legal experience - a combination of private practice and in-house counsel experience is a plus • Exceptional raw caliber - you’re highly intelligent and a fast learner, with outstanding written and verbal communication skills to help simplify complex topics for any audience • Sound, decisive judgment - you can quickly form and defend a clear point of view on risk and how to navigate it, even when you don’t have all the information • Strength in commercial contracting and negotiation - you’ve owned a recurring MSA before, with mastery over the variables and fluency reviewing terms with partners • Curiosity - you may not come from a fintech or payroll background, but you’re great at diving deep into new subject matter and quickly building expertise, be it our industry, AI regulation, data protection, or anything that comes next • Resourcefulness - you’ve successfully operated with limited resources in the past, in a fast-paced, commercially and technically complex environment • Bonus: Familiarity with AI tools and curiosity about how they can improve legal workflows • Bonus: Experience and appetite for managing and coaching a small team • Travel & Office Policy • The Check team is distributed across the US. Roles can be remote, hybrid, or based in one of our offices in New York City or San Francisco. We offer ample opportunities and encourage employees to attend team offsites, events, and hackathons throughout year. All Checketeers gather in the spring for our annual 3-day company retreat. • For our in-office and hybrid employees, our offices are open all week. We provide meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays and there are regular happy hours, game nights, and other in-person events.
Responsibilities
• Run Check's legal function - you’ll build and lead a small, high-velocity team, and coach them toward autonomy and deep cross-functional partnership; you’ll leverage outside counsel efficiently, deploying them resourcefully on spiky and unfamiliar areas of work • Drive commercial contracting - you'll guide our commercial negotiations and MSA reviews, helping our GTM teams build judgment on tradeoffs and ROI; you’ll be in the weeds where the deal requires it and reduce administrative friction where the team can move without you • Own Check’s regulatory relationships - you and your team will run point on licensing, audits, and related matters that carry real implications for Check and our ecosystem; you’ll partner with the BSA/AML compliance officer and the broader team on Check's compliance obligations as a money transmitter • Serve as strategic thought leader - you’ll be a key strategic voice in our business decisions, identifying the risks that matter most, mapping out how they impact our path, and recommending a clear solution that keeps us moving forward • Support the corporate and board cadence - you’ll lead or contribute to board presentations, financing and valuation diligence, cap table administration, and day-to-day governance • Partner across the org - you’ll serve on the Security Leadership council to build and maintain our privacy and data policies, partner with the Head of People on sensitive employment matters, and handle IP and other emerging needs as they arise
Benefits
• NYC, SF, LA, Seattle$255,000 – $280,500 • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • Target variable incentive compensation equal to 10-15% of total cash compensation. • Remote US$216,750 – $238,425 • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • Target variable incentive compensation equal to 10-15% of total cash compensation. • The actual annual compensation for this role is dependent on each candidate’s experience, qualifications, and work location. Most new hires are placed near the midpoint of this range to ensure fairness with our existing team’s compensation. • Check is proud to offer employee benefits that support a healthy life outside of work for individuals of all backgrounds. Full-time team members have access to flexible PTO and sick leave, generous paid parental leave for all new parents and flexible return-to-work, a 401k retirement plan, and a $100 monthly stipend for home internet and mobile phone expenses. We also provide high-quality medical, dental, vision, short-term/long-term disability, and basic life insurance coverage, effective on your first day of work. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • What is your phone number? • I prefer not to answer • Another Gender Identity • Heterosexual / straight • Asian or Asian American • Black or African American • Hispanic or Latine • Indigenous or Native American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Person with disability • Refugee or immigrant • None of the above • Check may use Artificial Intelligence with this application. Learn more.
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