Director of Legal

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September 20

🏄 California – Remote

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💵 $235k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Eltropy

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Artificial Intelligence • Finance • Fintech

Eltropy is a company that provides a unified communications platform powered by artificial intelligence. The company specializes in transforming member and customer experiences for credit unions and community banks, offering solutions that integrate seamlessly into workflows across various departments such as lending, collections, and contact centers. Eltropy's platform includes features like secure chat, video banking, text messaging, and AI agents, all aimed at improving communication and operational efficiency. With a strong focus on compliance and security, Eltropy helps financial institutions reduce fraud and optimize performance through innovative digital interactions.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 Venture Round on 2021-06

📋 Description

• Draft, review and negotiate a high volume of commercial agreements, primarily complex SaaS MSAs with sophisticated financial institution customers. • Manage and negotiate vendor, partnership, and technology licensing agreements. • Engage directly with internal stakeholders and customers to negotiate commercial terms, data protection agreements, information security addenda, and AI usage provisions. • Own legal playbooks, fallback positions, and clause libraries, delivering actionable guidance that improves deal velocity and protects margin while maintaining compliance. • Serve as primary legal advisor to Product and Engineering throughout the product development lifecycle; provide guidance on compliance with relevant laws and regulations. • Counsel on Telecommunications (TCPA, CAN-SPAM, CTIA), Data Privacy & Security (CCPA/CPRA, GLBA), and Financial Services compliance issues. • Counsel AI product teams on data usage; develop and implement scalable policies, procedures, and guardrails to ensure compliant-by-design features; provide executive leadership of the AI program and chair/co-chair AI governance forum. • Advise on corporate governance, employment law (with HR), intellectual property, equity management; manage corporate records and assist with financing or M&A activities. • Select and manage outside counsel to provide scalable, cost-effective support. • Lead, mentor, and scale a team of legal professionals; act as primary escalation point for non-standard commercial terms, data privacy, information security, and regulatory matters.

🎯 Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent law degree required; active bar membership in good standing. • 7+ years of progressive legal experience (commercial/technology transactions). • At least 3+ years of in-house legal experience at a technology company (SaaS experience strongly preferred). • Proven success building and leading high-performing legal or legal operations teams. • Deep, hands-on experience negotiating complex commercial contracts. • Proven expertise in product counseling in a regulated space. • Deep, practical TCPA compliance expertise is required. • Demonstrated experience advising on data privacy laws (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, GLBA). • A pragmatic, business-minded approach to problem-solving; ability to provide strategic and tactical counsel. • Occasional travel may be required for team or customer engagements.