Senior Counsel

Alloy is where you belong!

Alloy helps solve the identity risk problem for companies that offer financial products by enabling them to outpace fraud and confidently serve more people around the world. Over 800 of the world’s largest financial institutions and fintechs turn to Alloy to take control of fraud, credit, and compliance risk, and grow with the clearest picture of their customers.

Through our values: Be Bold, Get Scrappy, Collaborate, and Celebrate Our Differences, we are creating a workplace where you can grow, thrive, and belong. See how we’ve been continuously recognized and named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces, Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers, Best Fintech to Work for by American Banker, year after year.

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About the team

We're looking for a dynamic counsel to help drive our commercial and product legal work. You’ll be a trusted adviser across the Alloy organization, working closely with sales, partnerships, engineering, product, security, compliance, and others. An ideal candidate will have substantial experience drafting commercial agreements and navigating complex transactions, as well as the ability to advise product and engineering teams on Alloy’s ever-evolving suite of offerings. 

Alloy operates in a hybrid-work environment. We look to foster collaboration and community by having our local employees onsite three days a week.

What you'll be doing

• Drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, including services agreements, partnership agreements, and data processing agreements. 
• Providing proactive and practical product development advice, including on privacy, security, artificial intelligence, intellectual property, and regulatory matters. 
• Becoming an expert on Alloy, its partners, and the greater product ecosystem and applying that expertise to support Alloy’s commercial and product teams.
• Building strong partnerships across the business to enable close working relationships between legal and cross-functional partners.
• Advising business and executive leadership on key risk considerations.
• Monitoring for, and providing actionable guidance on, legal and regulatory developments relating to commercial contracting, partnerships, privacy, and artificial intelligence.

Who we’re looking for

• JD and U.S. state bar membership.
• 5+ years of experience as a practicing attorney, including in a law firm or comparable in-house role.  
• Comfort drafting and negotiating commercial provisions related to licensing of software and technology, intellectual property, data rights, and artificial intelligence.
• Background advising clients in the SaaS, technology and/or financial services space. 
• Excellent organization skills and proven track record of managing competing priorities.
• Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills with a knack for successfully liaising across business units.
• Attention to detail and sound judgment.
• Interest in building scalable processes at a growing company.

We're a lean team, so your impact will be felt immediately, and opportunities will grow as the company scales up. If this all sounds like a good fit for you, why not join us?

Alloy is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Below is the anticipated starting base compensation range for this role; however, pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, in-demand skills, relevant experience, and/or geography. In addition to a competitive base salary, this position is also eligible for equity awards in the form of stock options (ISOs) as well as a competitive total benefits package. Your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details and what compensation could look like for you specifically!

This position has a salary range of $190,000 - $250,000.

Benefits and Perks 

• Unlimited PTO and flexible work policy
• Employee stock options
• Medical, dental, vision plans with HSA (monthly employer contribution) and FSA options
• 401k with 100% match up to 4% of annual employee compensation 
• Eligible new parents receive 16 weeks of paid parental leave 
• Home office stipend for new employees
• Annual Learning & Development annual stipend
• Well-being benefits include access to ClassPass, OneMedical, UrbanSitter, and Spring Health 
• Hybrid work environment: employees are expected to work Tuesdays through Thursdays from our HQ in Union Square, Manhattan. Tasty lunches catered from a variety of local restaurants and frequent employee-organized cultural events contribute to our positive office energy. On Monday/Friday most employees Zoom into work from home while some take advantage of the quieter office.

How to apply

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