Deputy General Counsel

About Truv

Truv is revolutionizing the financial data landscape as the safest and most reliable API platform for payroll account access. Our solutions power income & employment verification direct deposit switching and beyond. Backed by $30M from Kleiner Perkins and NYCA we're taking on a $2B legacy market with innovation and customer-centricity. Led by veterans from Apple Carta Venmo MX and Okta we're building the future of financial data access.

About the Job

Truv is seeking a Deputy General Counsel to join our team. We are a group of technologists focused on delivering tangible value to our clients; we are global remote and apolitical. Our business is built to endure the upheavals occurring in our industry and society and we are seeing accelerating growth. The DGC will play a pivotal role in shaping our strategy leading the legal team and protecting the company's interests. This role reports to the CFO and offers a promotion pathway to General Counsel.

Our business is inherently disruptive; we are successfully displacing large incumbents and signing deals with national institutions. In addition to meeting the below qualifications the ideal candidate will display grit an inclination toward first principles thinking and a desire to succeed in the face of adversity. A sense of humor helps too. If this sounds like you apply below or reach out directly; we’d love to chat!

What You’ll Do

• Lead the legal function: Manage daily operations and budget to perform a broad range of legal work providing strategic direction first-rate execution and mentorship while operating with a high degree of autonomy and relying on strong organizational and prioritization skills.

• Oversee commercial contract management: Draft structure review and negotiate a wide range of agreements including software service agreements partnerships and vendor contracts aligning outcomes with company objectives.

• Develop the company’s regulatory compliance framework offering practical solutions that support innovation and growth. Maintain current knowledge of relevant laws particularly the FCRA. Experience with financial services and the public sector is a plus.

• Advise leadership on risk compliance and legal frameworks to support our growth. Research and respond to inquiries relating to complex operational and regulatory issues.

• Collaborate with executives and managers to define and implement company-wide legal and compliance policies. Leverage technology to improve scalability strengthen collaboration and achieve superior results faster.

• Corporate governance: Maintain corporate records assist with financings and ensure the company remains in good standing. Experience with transactions such as equity fundraising debt financing and M&A is a plus.

• Oversee and manage relationships with external legal counsel as needed to ensure high-quality cost-effective support across jurisdictions and domains.

• Everything else: As our legal chief you’ll be the point person to help navigate a broad range of matters including labor privacy IP litigation immigration and more.

Who You Are

• Experienced and qualified: You have 4-8 years of legal experience likely a mix of big law and in-house (or you’re ready to make the jump). You have a JD from an ABA accredited program and are an active bar member in any state or regional equivalent.

• Pragmatic communicator: You distill legal complexity into clear actionable data-driven advice for business leaders and technical teams. You can negotiate and manage complex technology transactions preferably with experience in highly regulated industries.

• Startup-minded: You understand speed and act with urgency. You optimize for business realities not legal perfection. You thrive in a dynamic environment and are driven to establish order. You can switch between 30000-foot thinking and tactical execution effortlessly.

• Outcome-oriented: You are biased towards action and do not hesitate to confront and solve difficult problems. You work effectively with different personality types commit to the success of the whole team and inspire others through clarity of purpose and leading by example.

• Risk-savvy not risk-averse: You evaluate trade-offs and articulate cost-benefit analysis. You are comfortable with ambiguity and new challenges; you’re not waiting for a playbook you help write it. Above all you have high ethical standards and a commitment to maintaining confidentiality and integrity.

Benefits

• Competitive equity package

• Health dental and vision insurance

• 401(k)

• Flexible vacation policy

• Fully remote

• High-impact role with significant independence and clear growth trajectory

• Opportunity to shape the future of financial data access

$180000 - $200000 a year

Base salary.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.