Associate Counsel

SentiLink•Austin, TX

1d•$160,000 - $180,000•Hybrid

About The Position

SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transaction with confidence. We’re building the future of identity verification in the United States replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate. We’ve seen tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets. SentiLink is backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA, and Max Levchin. We’ve earned recognition from TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, LendIt, and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 list every year since 2023. Last but not least, we’ve even made history - we were the first company to go live with the eCBSV and testified before the United States House of Representatives on the future of identity. SentiLink supports a variety of ways to work, ranging from fully remote to in-office. We operate as a digital-first company with strong collaboration across the U.S. and India. We maintain physical offices in Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Chicago in the U.S., and in Gurugram (Delhi) and Bengaluru in India. If you’re located near one of these offices, we would love for you to spend time in the office regularly. Some roles are hybrid or in-office by design. For example, our engineering team in India works primarily from our Gurugram office. Role: SentiLink is hiring an Associate Counsel, a junior in-house attorney, based in Austin to support core commercial, procurement, data licensing, product, and regulatory workflows. This role will own and improve high-volume legal processes, especially around evaluation agreements, NDAs, procurement contracts, and related commercial pathways, while helping raise the company’s product and regulatory knowledge floor. The role is designed for a lawyer who is excited to be broadly useful, work independently, and use technology—including AI tools—to amplify their impact. This role is based in our Austin office.

Requirements

JD from a U.S. law school and active admission/in good standing in at least one U.S. state
Approximately 1-3 years of legal experience
Strong legal drafting, redlining, and research skills
Hands-on experience with contracting; experience with commercial, procurement, data, product, or regulatory matters preferred
In-house experience preferred but not required
Good judgment, intellectual curiosity, and ability to learn quickly
Comfortable working independently and operating effectively without heavy oversight
Interest in supporting both commercial and product/regulatory legal work
Openness to using AI and other technology tools in day-to-day legal work
Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
Based in Austin or willing to relocate to Austin
Willingness to travel occasionally

Nice To Haves

In-house experience preferred but not required

Responsibilities

Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a high volume of commercial agreements, including NDAs, evaluation agreements, procurement contracts, and data licenses
Support internal clients on routine product, regulatory, and commercial legal questions, escalating appropriately when needed
Create leverage for the legal team by improving legal workflows, templates, playbooks, and institutional knowledge
Use AI and other technology tools to streamline contracting and internal legal support
Partner cross-functionally with Product, GTM, Tech, Operations, and other stakeholders to provide practical and timely legal guidance
Exercise independent judgment under time pressure and manage matters with limited oversight
Help improve internal understanding of relevant legal and regulatory issues affecting the business
Support vendor and procurement negotiations