Associate General Counsel – Personal Wealth Products

🕒 2 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $166.9k - $242.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🧑‍⚖️ General Counsel

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Empower

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10,000+ employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

Finance • Fintech • B2C

Empower is a leading provider of financial services focused on helping individuals and organizations achieve financial freedom through retirement planning and investment management. Serving over 19 million Americans, Empower offers a comprehensive suite of finance-related services, including smart planning and investment advice, and tools like the Empower Personal Dashboard™ for a complete financial view. The company is renowned as a top retirement plan provider and works closely with personal investors, workplace plan savers, plan sponsors, and financial professionals. Empower is also recognized for initiatives in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and has a social commitment that bolsters community impact.

📋 Description

• Serve as lead counsel to the Personal Wealth product organization, advising on the design, development, implementation and distribution of innovative wealth offerings • Partner closely with product, compliance, risk and business leaders from concept through launch, ensuring aligned, practical solutions across legal, risk and compliance while enabling speed to market • Coordinate across Empower’s broader legal team to deliver aligned, consistent, and business-oriented guidance, ensuring a “one voice” approach to legal advice • Navigate complex legal and regulatory frameworks, including the Investment Advisers Act, the Exchange Act, SEC and FINRA rules, ERISA/DOL fiduciary standards, and state laws and regulations • Advise on product structures and distribution across direct-to-consumer and advisor-led channels • Provide guidance on SEC and ERISA fiduciary obligations as applicable, Reg BI, conflicts of interest management, and client disclosures • Advise on and help shape Empower’s approach to the responsible use of artificial intelligence and data-driven technologies in wealth products, including evolving state and federal guidance and rulemaking related to predictive analytics, conflicts of interest, model governance, and client communications • Support product governance, regulatory filings and client-facing materials • Advise on third-party partnerships and evolving fintech capabilities • Monitor regulatory and industry developments, translating them into practical guidance for product, compliance, and other legal stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. and active bar membership • 15+ years of experience advising retail wealth management businesses (RIA, broker-dealer, or hybrid) • Strong knowledge of wealth management legal and regulatory frameworks including deep familiarity with SEC, FINRA, and state regulatory regimes particularly related to duties of care, disclosure, and conflicts of interest • Exposure to emerging wealth products including direct indexing, alternatives, retirement income strategies • Experience supporting product strategy, development and launch, ideally in a fast-paced or technology-enabled environment • Sound judgment and ability to balance legal and regulatory risk with business objectives • Comfort operating in evolving or ambiguous regulatory environments • Operates as a senior individual contributor with strong cross-functional influence • Executive presence and ability to communicate practical legal guidance clearly to senior business, product and other legal stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance • Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year • Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans • Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year • Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year • Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) • Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.