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Salary: USD 150,000 - 200,000 / annual
Method Financial is a fintech platform that has built the modern infrastructure for connecting consumer financial accounts. The company processes real-time liability connectivity and instant payment execution through its API, serving 45+ million users across 350+ million accounts and processing over $2.5B in payments. Method is backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator, with offices in Austin, SF, NYC, and Washington D.C.
As Senior Counsel, you will be the primary legal driver for Method's commercial expansion, reporting directly to the General Counsel. You will own the full commercial contracting lifecycle across the lending business and emerging commerce products, from drafting and negotiation through execution. Your core responsibilities include independently drafting, reviewing, and negotiating lending agreements; serving as the go-to legal partner for sales and customer success teams to accelerate deal velocity; and designing AI-assisted workflows and playbooks to increase legal function throughput.
You will establish repeatable cross-functional processes between Legal, Sales, Customer Success, Compliance, Finance, Operations, and Product to reduce friction and improve visibility. As the business scales, you will extend legal support to new product lines. This is a rare opportunity to build commercial legal capability at a company at an inflection point, where your contributions will directly shape the legal function through the next phase of growth.
Required qualifications include at least three years post-JD experience in commercial law within consumer finance, with proficiency in drafting and negotiating commercial agreements independently. You must have deep familiarity with the regulatory and commercial landscape for consumer financial products. You should be genuinely energized by early-stage ownership, eager to build AI-assisted legal tools, and an exceptional collaborator who builds strong relationships across diverse teams.
Preferred experience includes prior in-house transitions at fintech or consumer finance companies, strong knowledge of open banking and privacy laws (GLBA, FCRA), payments laws (EFTA, Nacha), and experience building or deploying contract automation or AI-assisted legal tooling.
