SVP Legal, OIC

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

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World Business Lenders, LLC

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201 - 500 employees

💸 Finance

🤝 B2B

💳 Fintech

Finance • B2B • Fintech

World Business Lenders, LLC is a direct lender that specializes in providing real-estate secured business loans to small-to-medium-sized businesses. The company focuses on serving under-served businesses that lack access to traditional funding, facilitating access to capital for business expansion and growth. With a strong management team experienced in financial services, World Business Lenders offers working capital solutions to foster the development of successful small businesses.

📋 Description

• Serve as the operational anchor and administrative backbone of the Corporate Legal department • Maintain alignment across legal functions, proactively surface risks, drive workflow efficiency, and ensure execution of departmental priorities • Build scalable legal operations, workflows, and governance structures • Manage corporate legal billing, outside counsel spend, invoice review, budget tracking, billing workflows, approvals, and reporting • Support compliance across lending, servicing, and corporate operations • Monitor adherence to federal and state regulations, including usury laws, licensing requirements, and disclosure obligations • Maintain compliance policies, procedures, and training documentation • Manage outside counsel, legal vendors, service providers, vendor contracting, engagement letters, and performance standards • Oversee entity management, corporate filings, board resolutions, governance documentation, and intellectual property matters • Support corporate structuring and expansion into new jurisdictions • Coordinate litigation tracking, settlements, enforcement actions, dispute management, and litigation oversight • Partner with Asset Management, Finance, and Operations on non-performing asset resolution • Build and document legal policies, procedures, operational standards, governance structures, quality assurance processes, and scalability frameworks • Identify bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement across legal operations • Liaise between Corporate Legal and ARCs, Finance, and General Counsel • Support executive leadership with briefings, risk identification, and legal operational reporting

🎯 Requirements

• JD from an accredited law school • Direct experience within a Non-QM mortgage company or Non-QM mortgage lending environment required • Industry experience in Non-QM mortgage lending, specialty mortgage finance, or a closely related mortgage lending environment • 8–15+ years of legal experience, with significant emphasis on legal operations, corporate legal management, or in-house counsel roles • Experience building systems, processes, and governance structures within a legal department • Background in compliance, commercial litigation, vendor management, and corporate law • Proven ability to manage outside counsel and control legal spend • Strong project management skills and operational thinking • Experience supporting senior leadership in an operational, deputy, chief of staff, or business management capacity • U.S.-based with strong working knowledge of U.S. federal and state legal and regulatory frameworks • Stable, reliable internet connection • Professional and dedicated remote working setup • Active bar membership in good standing preferred • Experience in private lending, financial services, fintech, or alternative finance strongly preferred • Required industry background includes Non-QM Mortgage Lending • CV must be submitted in English

🏖️ Benefits

• Incentive compensation eligibility, including equity and deferred cash bonus • Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Life insurance • Disability coverage • 401(k) with company match • Paid holidays • Paid time off (PTO) • Remote work • Occasional travel