Assistant General Counsel, Fintech

Attain • Chicago, IL

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

Attain is hiring an Assistant General Counsel to serve as the lead lawyer for its consumer fintech business. This generalist in-house role focuses on earned wage access and credit-related products and services, with responsibility spanning product advisory, litigation, regulation, and privacy. The role is one of three in-house legal positions and reports directly to the General Counsel, working alongside the Assistant General Counsel for the Enterprise business.

The position calls for substantial autonomy and end-to-end ownership of legal matters within agreed parameters, with sound judgment about when to escalate. It is proactive by design: the lawyer will anticipate issues, shape business decisions, and help build the legal function’s systems and processes. Attain describes the role as a potential path to becoming a general counsel, with meaningful scope and exposure.

The role is based on a hybrid office schedule where applicable: four days in-office and one day remote in either New York, NY, or Chicago, IL.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor degree and active bar membership in good standing.
• Approximately seven or more years of post-JD experience, combining law firm training with in-house experience.
• Substantial consumer fintech experience.
• Working knowledge of laws governing earned wage access, credit products, and other fintech offerings, including TILA and Regulation Z, EFTA and Regulation E, FCRA, the Military Lending Act, TCPA, UDAAP, GLBA, and state licensing and registration regimes.
• Experience managing licensing, regulatory examinations and inquiries, litigation, and arbitration at the state or federal level, including directing outside counsel.
• Legal operations experience and AI fluency, including experience building or willingness to build playbooks, self-service templates, structured intake, and AI-assisted review.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with earned wage access, bank partnerships, and credit products.
• Experience with data privacy, vendor oversight programs, or government affairs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as lead lawyer for the consumer fintech business, advising product, marketing, growth, finance, and compliance teams on new features, app and website content, and customer-facing terms.
• Manage licensing and registrations, including applications, renewals, license maintenance, regulatory examinations, and responses to regulator inquiries.
• Support expansion of the consumer fintech business, including new products.
• Oversee fintech litigation, arbitration, and regulatory matters, directing outside counsel on strategy, scope, budget, and rate discipline.
• Run periodic reviews of apps, websites, and public materials to keep them current with the law and the products.
• Refresh policies and procedures and establish a recurring employee training calendar.
• Build a third-party vendor oversight program.
• Develop the legal operations layer using AI where possible, including intake, playbooks, self-service templates, first-pass review, matter management, and reporting.
• Cover company-wide legal needs as they arise, including shared services, employment, intellectual property, corporate matters, financings, insurance, and state-level licensing.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree