Senior Corporate Counsel

Company Summary:

With Alviere, organizations can offer financial products to drive customer engagement, generate new revenue streams, and improve existing financial flows. The Alviere HIVE platform offers an extensive range of configurable, branded financial products, including accounts & wallets, card issuance, streamlined payments, and global money transfers. Alviere brings together technology and program support with the trust of a licensed financial institution to assure the safety, flexibility, and long-term viability of client programs.  

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Supports the company’s legal approach by identifying issues, coordinating with external counsel, and implementing approved legal guidance;
• Draft, review, and negotiate contracts and third-party agreements with vendors, partners, and customers and provide related risk-mitigation strategies during adoption and execution;
• Collaborate cross-departmentally with Compliance, Finance, Product, Operations and other departments to ensure contracts, policies, and communications are legally compliant and consistent with internal processes and policies;
• Coordinates and manages external legal counsel engagements to support corporate objectives, including issue scoping, review of advice, and implementation of approved guidance;
• Provides legal input and guidance to the CFO and senior leadership, to support informed business decision-making, while escalating complex or high-risk matters appropriately;
• Provides legal input to senior leadership to support informed business decision-making;
• Anticipates and identifies legal issues and counsels officers of the institution and other upper management in order to develop legal strategies and solutions, often in situations of significant business impact, and with limited time for assessing alternatives;
• Reviews, researches, interprets, and prepares both written and oral opinions on a wide variety of legal issues;
• Drafts and reviews internal policies, procedures, and other legal documents, and supports governance documentation, subject to appropriate internal review and approval frameworks;
• Supports the Compliance function by identifying regulatory legal issues and coordinating with external counsel on matters involving financial services regulatory frameworks, including FinCEN, CFPB, Regulation E, and OFAC, without owning compliance program design or regulatory interpretation.

A Successful Senior Corporate Counsel will have the following:

• 6-8+ years of relevant legal experience, with a focus on corporate, commercial, and/or regulatory matters, preferably within financial services, banking, payments, or fintech environments;
• J.D. from an American Bar Association accredited law school and admission to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, in good standing;
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage a large corporate or centralized institutional legal office;
• Ability to provide clear, practical legal guidance to senior business leaders, including finance and operations stakeholders, in a fast-paced and evolving environment;
• Experience working in or supporting regulated financial services organizations, with a working knowledge of applicable regulatory frameworks (e.g., FinCEN, CFPB, Regulation E, OFAC) sufficient to identify issues, assess risk, and coordinate with Compliance and external counsel;
• Ability to analyze and interpret issues and to prepare legal opinions;
• Knowledge of current and developing legal issues and trends in area of expertise;
• Knowledge and understanding of Company policies and procedures and the regulatory environment within which they operate;
• Demonstrated experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial agreements, including vendor, partner, and customer contracts;
• Knowledge of legal documentation procedures and requirements.
  

In accordance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the expected salary range for this position is $200,000.00 - $225,000.00. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, and location. This position is eligible for Company bonus and equity. Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision insurances, unlimited paid time off, 401k plan w/ company match.

For Colorado Applicants:

Applicants are not required to provide age-related information in their application materials, such as dates of graduation or years of attendance. You may redact or omit these details from your résumé or other documents submitted with your application. If age verification is necessary for legal compliance, it will only be requested after a conditional job offer is made.

We pride ourselves on developing and promoting talent as an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer - Veteran/Disability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. We are a true merit-based organization and work hard so there are no artificial barriers to one's potential success. Alviere is committed to a workforce where everyone's opportunities are limitless.

Consistent with this commitment, Alviere will endeavor to provide reasonable accommodation to otherwise qualified job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities. Please contact recruiting@alviere.com for any assistance.

Salary

• $200,000 - $225,000