ABOUT ROCKET MONEY 🔮

Rocket Money’s mission is to empower people to improve their financial lives. Rocket Money offers members a unique understanding of their finances and a suite of valuable services that save them time and money – ultimately giving them a leg up on their financial journey. Rocket Money’s team is a mission driven group of talented collaborative folks, working in a remote first company, with offices in several cities if you happen to prefer office or in-person time.

We are looking for a Counsel to join our remote-first team and take a primary role supporting our fast-moving credit card business and support other dynamic business units working in regulated spaces. As a member of our awesome and lean legal team, you will work with our General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel and be expected to accelerate our velocity by engaging with the business to efficiently and proactively identify ways to increase opportunity, mitigate risk, and eliminate legal blockers. This role will have two areas of focus, both central to our business. First, working with our team as a generalist with a diverse focus on interesting and exciting projects. Second, this role will focus on payments and credit specific work with our excellent card team. You can expect to work directly with business partners on every level while enhancing our strategic goals and vision...You will also find a welcoming and well-rounded team who are interested in working in a supportive and forthright atmosphere.

ABOUT THE ROLE 🤹‍♀️

Working with our team, you will:

Act as a partner to internal business teams on a variety of practice areas including, among other things: agreements, compliance, privacy, security, marketing, and financial regulations
Provide strong technical and commercial excellence to identify legal risk and find innovative solutions to any issues as they arise
Become a subject matter expert on the credit card program and relevant statutes and regulations, e.g. Reg. Z and FCRA
Lead work designing and delivering cutting edge compliance systems
Collaborate to manage external counsel
Build trust and collaborate directly and regularly with business stakeholders
Stay apprised of relevant regulatory development and work with our government affairs team
Note, this is a role with room to grow with the business

ABOUT YOU 🦄

JD degree & current admission

4+ years of relevant legal experience at a law firm or in-house (with at least 2 years consecutively within one of your recent roles preferred)
Regulatory counseling experience, ideally with credit card or payments focus
Experience with a fast-growing startup environment preferred
Ability to proactively, efficiently, and accurately assess and communicate legal business risks in a fast-paced environment
Experience with any of the following is worth noting when you apply: financial regulation, payments/credit cards, ADR, marketing compliance, IP, or data privacy/security.
Track record of creative problem-solving and creation of strong and trusted cross-functional relationships
Proactive personality and eagerness to dig in and learn about the business, the industry, and new areas of the law and applicable regulations
Interested in becoming a subject matter expert
Willing to lean in cross-functionally to drive business growth
Our team brings a product focused mindset with an eye towards collaborative, integrated problem solving. Experience working with product, marketing, data, and engineering teams to provide actionable counsel (or with any form of technology team) either as a lawyer or in other career phases is likely to be helpful.

WE OFFER 💫

Health, Dental & Vision Plans
Competitive Pay
Matching 401k
Unlimited PTO
Lunch daily (when in office)
Snacks & Coffee (when in office)
Commuter benefits (when in office)

Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skill, and experience.

Salary range of $135,000.00-$155,000.00/year + bonus + benefits is anticipated.

Rocket Money, Inc is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.*

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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