Associate General Counsel, Regulatory Compliance

Location: Hybrid; four days per week in the office at the Fort Lee, New Jersey headquarters, United States.

Salary: $300,000.00–$330,000.00 annually.

Company

hirify.global builds financial infrastructure and technology solutions for payments, cards, lending, embedded finance, and digital asset products.

What you will do

• Advise bank management and business and control functions on banking, consumer protection, lending, financial crime, supervision, enforcement, examination management, and third-party risk matters.
• Support the Chief Legal Officer on bank supervision, safety and soundness, regulatory compliance examinations, and management responses to examination reports and supervisory communications.
• Provide risk-focused legal advice on new partner onboarding and product launches involving payments, embedded finance, lending, digital assets, BNPL, EWA, and related emerging regulations.
• Oversee attorneys, manage regulatory counsel workflow and performance, and coordinate with external counsel and Government Affairs.
• Prepare, file, track, and manage regulatory applications and notices, including post-approval integration and regulatory commitments.
• Build cross-functional processes with Risk, Compliance, BSA/AML, Operations, Product, the Project Management Office, and other stakeholder teams.

Requirements

• Juris Doctorate degree and admission to a US State Bar in good standing are required; New York or New Jersey admission is preferred.
• 15+ years of legal experience, including at least 8 years in regulatory compliance, supervision, and enforcement.
• Significant in-house legal experience at a bank or fintech company is required.
• Proven experience as legal counsel in a business environment.
• Strong knowledge and experience with supervisory oversight by the OCC, FDIC, and FRB.
• Knowledge of laws, rules, and regulations applicable to financial services and consumer protection, including banking, lending, consumer protection, BSA/AML, OFAC sanctions, and related regulations.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, recognize escalation points, and lead projects and regulatory applications and notices.
• Strong analytical, reasoning, problem-solving, market knowledge, decision-making, written and oral advocacy, corporate communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple sensitive or urgent matters under tight deadlines with limited administrative support.

Nice to have

• Experience at a card network or payments company.
• Familiarity with the FinTech partnership model, third-party relationship and service-provider oversight, and unsecured consumer finance products such as marketplace lending.
• Working knowledge of consumer compliance laws and regulations, including TILA, UDAAP, fair lending, and FCRA; Bank Holding Company regulations including Regulation Y and Regulation W; and the Community Reinvestment Act.
• Familiarity with digital technology banking matters.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with four days per week in the Fort Lee, New Jersey office.
• Collaborative, curious, and purpose-driven work environment.
• Opportunity to work across legal, risk, compliance, operations, product, executive, client, and partner teams.
• Work focused on financial access, safe and sound banking, and innovative financial products.