Associate Counsel (Asset Management)

Location: Minneapolis, Boston, New York, or Charlotte; in-office at least four days per week with the option to work from home one day per week.

Base salary: $78,700–$138,200 per year, plus potential variable compensation and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a diversified financial services organization providing financial planning, asset management, insurance, and investment solutions to individual, small business, and institutional clients.

What you will do

• Provide legal support for portfolio management, research, trading, investment products, and related regulatory matters.
• Advise on Dodd-Frank, SEC, CFTC, Investment Advisers Act, FINRA, and state securities law requirements.
• Monitor regulatory developments affecting derivatives, trading, advisory activities, and documentation.
• Draft, review, and negotiate ISDA Master Agreements, CSAs, MSFTAs, futures and options documentation, prime brokerage agreements, and advisory agreements.
• Support fund launches, new product development, trading strategies, and client solutions.
• Partner with trading, risk, compliance, operations, product, and client management teams, as well as regulators, counterparties, and outside counsel.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor degree and active bar membership.
• 0–3 years of experience in a law firm or in-house at a financial institution.
• Understanding of U.S. financial regulation, investor protection frameworks, and the asset management business.
• Strong drafting, negotiation, analytical, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex legal issues into practical advice and manage multiple priorities independently.
• Valid U.S. work authorization without current or future visa sponsorship is required.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of trading documentation.
• Experience with U.S. fund structures or trading documentation.

Culture & Benefits

• Relationship-based, client-centric environment emphasizing in-person collaboration.
• Vacation and sick time.
• 401(k) plan.
• Health, dental, and life insurance.
• Potential bonus, commission, and/or long-term incentive compensation depending on the role.