Fraud / Financial Crime Product Counsel (Fintech)

Location: United States, Jacksonville, Florida

Company

hirify.global is a financial technology company providing products and services for banks, credit unions, payments, fraud prevention, and financial crime compliance.

What you will do

• Own legal strategy for assigned fraud prevention, financial crime compliance, and integrity-focused product portfolios across ideation, design, launch, support, and retirement.
• Partner with product, fraud, compliance, data, technology, privacy, security, sales, and business stakeholders on product design and go-to-market planning.
• Advise on banking, payments, consumer protection, privacy, data protection, and financial crime regulations.
• Support commercial contracting, RFP responses, client negotiations, product documentation, templates, and approved negotiation guidance.
• Advise on disputes, operational issues, litigation support, third-party dependencies, vendors, subcontractors, and client obligations.
• Develop scalable legal processes, playbooks, training materials, intake triage, escalation practices, and recurring negotiation guidance.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor degree and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
• At least 9 years of relevant legal experience in financial services, fintech, fraud prevention, financial crime compliance, payments, banking, risk management, or related regulatory environments.
• Experience providing product-facing legal advice throughout the lifecycle of regulated technology products.
• Strong understanding of banking, payments, consumer protection, privacy, data protection, and financial crimes considerations.
• Experience with commercial contracts, RFPs, client negotiations, template ownership, and escalation of non-standard positions.
• Ability to provide practical, risk-calibrated advice and collaborate with product, sales, compliance, privacy, security, and senior business stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with fraud detection, AML, sanctions, scams, identity, transaction monitoring, risk scoring, compliance workflows, banking operations, or payment networks.
• Experience supporting bank or credit union technology clients and handling audits, security reviews, and vendor risk management.
• Experience with data flows, AI-enabled decisioning, model governance, monitoring controls, or fraud and financial crime technology.
• Experience developing legal positions concerning audit rights, service levels, subcontractors, security, incident response, liability, and regulatory questionnaires.

Culture & Benefits

• Legal operates as a product partner rather than only a checkpoint.
• The role supports responsible innovation, client trust, regulatory compliance, and fraud-resistant product design.
• Direct sourcing is the primary recruitment model.
• U.S.-based positions may require a drug test after a conditional offer.