Senior Corporate Counsel

ConsumerDirect is a financial technology company headquartered in Irvine, California. We develop and operate consumer-facing and business-to-business technology platforms that help consumers improve their financial health while providing partners with innovative credit, data, and financial technology solutions. Our products support consumer interactions and include software, data, analytics, and technology solutions serving financial institutions, lenders, and other business partners.

We are seeking a practical, business-minded Senior Corporate Counsel to join our legal team. This is an in-office role based in Irvine, California.

Position Overview:

The Senior Corporate Counsel will serve as a key legal partner to the business, supporting a broad range of corporate, commercial, technology, regulatory, compliance, privacy, data security, and operational matters. This role is ideal for an experienced attorney who can manage matters from intake through completion, exercise independent judgment, and provide clear, practical advice to business teams.

The Senior Corporate Counsel will report to the General Counsel and work closely with the legal operations manager, executive leadership and cross-functional teams to balance legal risk with business objectives while supporting the company's continued growth and innovation.

This role will serve as one of the company's primary legal advisors to provide proactive legal guidance while helping the organization scale responsibly and efficiently.

The ideal candidate will have strong commercial contract drafting and negotiation experience, sound business judgment, excellent communication skills, and an interest in improving legal department processes through better workflows, templates, contract management tools, and AI-enabled legal technology.

Key Responsibilities:

• Draft, review, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements, including software, SaaS, vendor, technology, data-related, confidentiality, service, licensing, and other business agreements.
• Manage contract matters end-to-end, including drafting, negotiation, stakeholder alignment, escalation of material risks, and final execution.
• Advise product, technology, information security, marketing, sales, finance, operations, compliance, and executive stakeholders on practical legal and business issues.
• Support legal review of technology, privacy, data security, data use, vendor management, partner obligations, regulatory, compliance, and operational matters.
• Provide legal support for strategic business initiatives, product launches, new partnerships, and technology development.
• Advise on consumer financial services, advertising and marketing, intellectual property, corporate governance, and risk management matters as they arise.
• Support negotiation of enterprise customer agreements, strategic partnerships, reseller relationships, and data licensing arrangements.
• Assist with corporate governance matters, including board materials, corporate records, subsidiary maintenance, and internal policies as needed.
• Coordinate with outside counsel on litigation, employment, intellectual property, regulatory, and other specialized legal matters.
• Monitor changes in applicable laws and regulations affecting financial technology, consumer financial services, privacy, artificial intelligence, and technology businesses, and provide practical guidance to internal stakeholders.
• Help develop and deliver legal training to business teams regarding contracting, privacy, compliance, marketing, and other legal topics.
• Develop and improve legal templates, contract playbooks, clause libraries, approval workflows, and scalable legal operations practices.
• Use legal contract management software and help optimize legal technology tools, including AI-enabled tools for contract review, workflow management, and legal department efficiency.
• Assist with regulatory and compliance-related contract issues involving privacy, data security, consumer protection, and financial technology.

Required Qualifications

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school.
• Active membership in at least one U.S. state bar, California preferred.
• At least 7 years of relevant legal experience.
• Strong commercial contract drafting and negotiation experience.
• Experience managing contracts and legal matters from start to finish.
• Experience using legal contract management software.
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a technology or regulated business environment.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage multiple priorities and provide practical, business-oriented legal advice.
• Strong business judgment, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize material legal risk.
• Ability to explain legal concepts clearly to non-lawyers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
• Ability to work in person in Irvine, California.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Prior in-house legal and California law experience.
• Experience at a top-tier law firm.
• Experience supporting fintech, financial services, credit reporting, consumer financial products, SaaS, technology platforms, data licensing, or other highly regulated businesses.
• Experience with privacy, data security, data use, vendor security obligations, or technology-related contract provisions.
• Experience with contract lifecycle management systems, legal operations tools, AI-assisted contract review, legal automation, or legal department process improvement.
• Familiarity with consumer financial services laws and regulations, state privacy laws, and related regulatory frameworks.
• Familiarity with regulatory or compliance issues affecting technology, data, consumer-facing, financial services, or platform-based businesses.

Desired Attributes

• Practical, business-minded, efficient, and precise.
• Strong cross-functional communicator.
• Comfortable with fast-cycle decision-making.
• Able to build scalable legal processes.
• Curious about legal technology, AI tools, and legal department optimization.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and helping the business find practical solutions while appropriately managing legal risk.
• High integrity, strong judgment, and professional maturity

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements

• Primarily office-based with standard business hours; occasional extended hours for deadlines.
• Prolonged periods of sitting and working at a computer are required.
• Must be able to communicate effectively via phone, video conferencing, and email.