Humbly Confident Legal Counsel

Application Deadline: 28 July 2024

Department: Operations

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote

Compensation: $130,000 - $170,000 / year

Description

We’re YNAB (“why-nab”), a financial education company with a money management app. Our friendly, flexible method for managing finances helps people all over the world enjoy guilt-free spending and effortless saving. For two decades, people have been using YNAB and then telling their friends what a difference it has made in their lives. Check out our community on Facebook, TikTok, or Reddit (really!), or read some of our app reviews, and you’ll see what we mean. We love building something that has a huge positive impact on people’s lives.

We like to say that we “do money differently” at YNAB, and we’re similarly opinionated about how we do business. With a quickly-growing customer base and an ever-changing landscape of laws and regulations, we’ve decided it’s time to hire our first-ever Legal Counsel to help us tackle legal and data compliance the YNAB way. You’ll balance many tensions in doing so, but the short of it is: You’re the person we’re looking for if you see legal and data compliance requirements not as a burden, but as an opportunity to build an even better company and product. 

As we’ve hinted, this role covers two distinct but related areas. The legal function will be your primary priority and focus, but you’ll also be responsible for data compliance. This will allow you to work within a broader scope to protect both YNAB’s business interests, while also creating processes that appropriately protect customers’ data as we continue to grow. 

We value collaboration here, so you won’t make these decisions in a vacuum (in fact, what’s the opposite of a vacuum?). You’ll work closely with every department at YNAB, and your guidance will be a vital help to our executive team, which has ultimate responsibility for legal decisions. All along, you’ll genuinely seek to understand each team’s processes and pain points, while also keeping the big-picture goals of the company at the forefront of every decision. You’ll carry confident opinions while seeking pragmatic solutions, and you won’t shy away from considering creative solutions to complex problems.

You’re the person we’re looking for if you’re committed to being in the day-to-day work, bold about diving into the details, and excited to roll up your sleeves and execute on any legal or data compliance job at hand—all while working closely and collaboratively with people from across the company. We have three hard requirements for this role—you must:

• Live in the United States
• Be a member in good standing of at least one U.S. state bar
• Have at least three years of experience practicing law

Beyond that, we’re open-minded. We’re looking for a leader and doer in legal and data compliance, and we value a diversity of experience and skills at YNAB. That said, we expect that you’ll be most successful in this role if you also have:

• Previous in-house legal counsel experience
• Experience working with a SaaS or technology company
• Knowledge of data privacy compliance laws & regulations

That’s a super brief intro to what you’ll be working on. But first, you need to know if you’ll even like working with us. Let’s talk a bit about life at YNAB, and then we’ll go into more detail about what we’re looking for.

YNAB started in 2004 and we haven’t taken any outside funding—we’re established, profitable, and in this for the long haul. We have one overarching requirement when it comes to joining our team: our original Core Value Manifesto has to really click with you. If you’re nodding emphatically while reading it, you’ll probably really like it here, and we can’t wait to hear from you!

We live our Core Values every day at YNAB, and we mean it when we say we are an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that a diversity of backgrounds, abilities, beliefs, and experiences is critical to our success, and we are passionate about creating a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative environment for all employees. All are encouraged to apply as we continue to grow a smart, hard-working, and diverse team that loves working together to build something that matters.
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