Regulatory Product / Legal Engineer (Copy)

Responsiv • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

Responsiv Overview Responsiv is a regulatory change management platform that tells you when your regulatory posture is out of date. Responsiv analyzes new regulations and notifies you when there’s been an important new rule that you should be aware of. It then takes that regulation and performs a gap analysis on your existing controls, policies, and procedures, suggesting necessary changes. Responsiv addresses the challenge of staying compliant in an increasingly complex and fast-evolving regulatory landscape allowing you to: Track your regulatory obligations: Continuously monitor which laws and regulations apply to your organization, ensuring you remain compliant with every requirement. Ensure your controls and policies are always up to date: with ongoing gap analyses Update your controls and policies with new regulations immediately: by automatically drafting compliance updates based on the latest regulatory guidelines Get back to the business faster: by understanding the regulatory context behind a specific situation that may not be covered in existing policies Backed by Greylock and OnDean Forward (Andrew Sieja, founder of Relativity). Regulatory Product Associate Overview The Regulatory Product Associate is the bridge between the law and the product. You’ll translate evolving regulations into clear specs, truth sets, and demos, then partner with engineering to ship features that stand up to expert scrutiny. You’ll also face the market—pressure-testing the product with customers, explaining decisions, and driving root-cause analyses when we can do better. Embedded within our product organization, you will help set the bar for the industry—turning regulatory insight into shippable breakthroughs that move our roadmap and the market.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) with admission to at least one U.S. jurisdiction or practical experience in Compliance or as a Paralegal at a relevant organization
• Subject Matter Expertise: 1 to 3 years in legal, compliance, or regulatory roles, ideally within financial services or similarly regulated industries.
• Regulatory Analysis Experience: Demonstrated track record of interpreting complex regulations and translating them into tangible product or program requirements.
• Technical Collaboration: Comfort working with complex products
• Exceptional Communication: Ability to articulate complex regulatory scenarios in an accessible, solution-oriented manner to internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own our Truth Set: Establish and maintain a gold-standard benchmark for each module’s performance and ensure consistency and accuracy across all outputs. This includes drafting comprehensive, long-form regulatory memos to cover regulatory research, requirements extraction, gap analysis, and other platform areas. You'll review our horizon scanner alerts and our regulatory topic maps. Continuously refine these truth sets based on emerging regulations, industry best practices, and user feedback.
• Structured & Unstructured Feedback: Act as the “user champion” by reviewing and critiquing preliminary versions of the software. Use quantitative scorecards (e.g., accuracy, relevance, comprehensiveness) to evaluate new model updates.
• When a model can be improved, drive the end-to-end investigation. Assess whether the correct sources were identified, the right information was extracted, and if the the summarized output was complete and accurate. Work with engineering to define corrective actions, and write clear and thorough customer responses.
• Engage with Customers & Prospects: Join calls to uncover compliance pain points, align on expectations, and showcase Responsiv’s domain expertise. Clearly communicate the product’s value in addressing specific regulatory challenges.
• Represent Responsiv at Industry Events: Participate in key conferences, panels, and roundtables. Build relationships with compliance executives, gather market insights, and bolster Responsiv’s thought leadership.
• Build Industry-Specific Demos: Partner with product marketing to develop comprehensive demo environments—complete with synthetic real-world data—for various industries (e.g., Private Equity, Tier 1 Banks, Tier 2 Banks).
• Show how Responsiv’s platform addresses each sector’s unique regulatory obligations, highlighting the real-world impact of our software.
• Operate well in a fast-paced environment.
• Build competence in our product. You will have high expectations for our team and of yourself as we expect to get work done with quality and speed. You will own the SLAs to respond quickly to prospect and customer questions, as well as internal colleagues. Your ability to adapt, shift and change quickly as the environment changes will give you an edge .

What This Job Offers

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