Assistant General Counsel

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⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $180k - $235k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Koalafi

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201 - 500 employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💰 Debt Financing on 2022-08

Finance • Fintech

Koalafi is a company that provides non-prime financing solutions, allowing more customers to make crucial purchases with convenience and support. By offering lease-to-own and second-look financing options, Koalafi enables retailers to accommodate a wider range of credit scores, helping close the financing gap for up to 47% of U. S. adults who don't qualify for traditional financing. Their services report payment activity to credit bureaus, thus helping customers build credit while making purchases easier and more affordable. Koalafi's data-driven applications ensure quick and confident customer approvals, supporting retailers in increasing conversions and consumer loyalty.

📋 Description

• Lead Koalafi’s strategy and response across individual and class-action litigation, arbitration, threatened claims, demand letters, subpoenas, and other adversarial matters. • Manage matters throughout their full lifecycle, including initial assessment, internal fact investigation, discovery, motion practice, settlement strategy, trial preparation, and resolution. • Assess legal, financial, operational, customer, and reputational exposure and provide clear recommendations to senior leadership. • Direct and manage outside counsel, including matter strategy, staffing, budgets, performance, and work-product quality. • Maintain clear reporting on active matters, significant developments, potential exposure, and emerging trends. • Support and manage responses to regulatory examinations, investigations, inquiries, enforcement actions, and requests for information. • Develop response strategies with the General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, Legal Operations team, outside counsel, and internal stakeholders. • Serve as a legal point of contact for federal and state regulators. • Identify patterns across regulatory matters and escalated legal complaints and communicate relevant risks to business owners. • Advise senior leaders on strategic business initiatives, new products, and evolving operational priorities. • Partner with Compliance, Risk, Operations, Product, Finance, and Sales to identify and address legal and regulatory risks. • Translate complex or evolving legal requirements into practical, risk-based recommendations. • Evaluate legal risk, potential exposure, business considerations, options, tradeoffs, and paths forward. • Provide legal guidance from concept and design through implementation, launch, and ongoing operation. • Lead or support cross-functional legal workstreams on high-priority initiatives. • Develop practical frameworks, playbooks, and scalable legal processes.

🎯 Requirements

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school. • Active license to practice law in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, with the ability to practice as in-house counsel in Virginia and/or the District of Columbia. • 8+ years of relevant legal experience at a law firm, financial institution, fintech company, regulatory agency, in-house legal department, or a combination of these environments. • Experience in a fintech, high-growth lending, or other dynamic and highly regulated environment. • Experience with at least one of the following: lease-to-own products, point-of-sale financing, non-prime lending, bank-partnership models, or consumer-loan servicing. • Significant experience managing complex litigation, arbitration, regulatory investigations, enforcement matters, or other adversarial proceedings. • Demonstrated experience advising business leaders on new products, strategic initiatives, or operational changes, including identifying legal and regulatory risks and translating them into practical, business-oriented recommendations. • Strong knowledge of federal and state consumer-financial-services laws and regulations, including laws applicable to lending, servicing, payments, credit reporting, collections, and lease-to-own products. • Ability to assess legal risk in areas where the law or regulatory expectations may be evolving, incomplete, or subject to interpretation, and to provide clear recommendations on options, tradeoffs, and paths forward. • Strong advocacy, analytical, negotiation, collaboration, and communication skills, including the ability to give senior leaders concise, actionable, and risk-based advice. • Sound judgment and the ability to independently manage multiple high-stakes matters while also partnering effectively with cross-functional teams on strategic business priorities. • A practical, proactive, and intellectually curious approach, with a strong execution mindset and an ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment. • Nice to have: Direct experience with the CFPB, FTC, state attorneys general, state financial-services regulators, or similar agencies. • Nice to have: Capital Markets experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• Company bonus plan • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage • 20 PTO days + 11 paid holidays • 401(k) retirement with company matching • Student Loan & Tuition Reimbursement • Commuter assistance • Parental leave (maternal + paternal) • Inclusion and Associate Engagement Programs