Legal and Compliance Officer (NYC Remote)

About PrelimPrelim is a fast-growing, San Francisco based startup with team members working remotely throughout the country that's transforming how banks onboard customers. We streamline account opening to improve efficiency and the customer experience.
If you're excited to shape the future of banking, we encourage you to apply. We seek driven, ambitious people excited to make an impact through innovation.
Why we're looking for youWith enormous growth and sales consistently beating quotas, we need our first Legal and Compliance Officer to help build and scale all aspects of the legal and compliance function. Our product is at the intersection of banking and finance and this role will help advise our internal teams and customers on risk management as well as legal and regulatory requirements.

What you'll doNo two days will be the same. You'll work on project teams, directly engage with financial institutions to understand needs, answer questions, and advise on product development. As an early member of the the team, you'll also help design and write policies and procedure to make our sales, product, and implementation team even more successful.
You will be required to be an expert in regulations and laws impacting community, regional and national banks and financial institutions.
Who you'll work withYou'll work hand-in-hand with our various teams across departments with teammates who are customer-focused and love collaborating to shape the future of banking. If you share our passion for innovation through technology, we can't wait to hear from you!

In this role you'll

• Establish policies and procedures to meet regulatory requirements
• Discuss with various stakeholders how our product solves for their needs and provide recommendations.
• Master how to use our internal tools to be able to deploy out-of-the-box as well as tailored solutions
• Collaborate witfh customers, understand their problems, and advise customers on how to successfully implement our product from a compliance lense
• Participate in weekly calls with product, design, engineering, and customer success teams to provide legal/compliance updates, answer questions, and ask questions to help our team continue to build and deliver on our mission to help financial institutions

The skillset you bring

• J.D. Degree preferred but not required
• Experience working with large Enterprise or institutional customers
• Strong knowledge of how financial products and services work will help but not necessary
• Previous experience talking with customers and solving their problems
• Ability to think on your feet, and solve problems during calls with stakeholders
• Enjoy writing, researching, and advising teams