# Product Counsel
**Company:** [AngelList](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/angellist)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Securities Law, Privacy Law, GDPR, CCPA, Fintech Regulations, Banking-As-A-Service, Bsa/Aml, Securities Act Of 1933, Securities Exchange Act Of 1934, Investment Company Act, Investment Advisers Act
**Posted:** 2025-08-29
> Provides embedded legal counsel to product, engineering, and business teams on regulated infrastructure like fund formation, banking, and investor tools. Advises on securities laws, privacy, compliance, and bank partnerships in a fast-paced fintech environment. Requires 6-10 years experience and JD from top law school.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Serve as embedded counsel to product teams across the full lifecycle—development, launch, scale, and maintenance.
- Partner on product design and risk management for both new and existing infrastructure, including Meridian and more.
- Analyze and advise on regulatory implications across securities laws, privacy frameworks, and compliance regimes (e.g., 33 Act, 34 Act, ICA, IAA, GDPR, CCPA).
- Draft, review, and evolve foundational legal documents for fund products and investor tools.
- Design scalable legal processes that enable product velocity without compromising compliance.
- Collaborate with compliance, BD, engineering, and marketing to align legal strategy with business goals.
- Train internal teams on legal implications of product decisions and evolving regulatory standards.
- Advise on and draft bank partnership agreements, including deposit account agreements, custodial arrangements, and banking-as-a-service frameworks with partner financial institutions.
- Serve as legal point of contact on banking infrastructure matters — including wire processing, account structures, and payment flows — in coordination with banking partners and internal finance/ops teams.
- Monitor and advise on regulatory developments affecting banking partner relationships, including BSA/AML obligations, OCC guidance, and evolving BaaS regulatory scrutiny from federal and state banking regulators.
- Ensure contractual and operational alignment between AngelList's product obligations and the compliance requirements flowing from its banking infrastructure partners.

## Requirements
- **JD from a top-tier law school and active bar membership in good standing.**
- **6–10 years of legal experience with meaningful exposure to fintech, venture capital, or SaaS platforms; experience with bank partnership structures, BaaS agreements, or payment infrastructure legal frameworks is a strong plus.**
- **Expertise in product counseling with a working knowledge of securities law, privacy, and data.**
- **Demonstrated ability to own complex initiatives independently while collaborating cross-functionally.**
- **Comfortable navigating legal ambiguity in fast-moving, zero-mistake product environments.**
- **Strong communication skills—able to translate complex legal concepts to non-lawyers.**
- **High output. Clear thinker. Strong point of view. Values-aligned.**
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