Lawyer – Financial Services

About the Role

Omnilex is seeking its first lawyer to advise banks, funds, and insurers out of New York. This role involves running real mandates for sophisticated financial-sector clients, including regulatory, transactional, and advisory work. Every case solved becomes a productized, AI-native service, scaling and compounding legal capability. You’ll work directly with the managing partner, founders, and engineers to turn expertise into AI-native services, shaping the practice, client base, and workflow.

Responsibilities

• Client Work: Advise banks, asset managers, funds, and insurers on regulatory, transactional, and structuring questions across US and cross-border mandates. Own matters end-to-end: scoping, analysis, memos, documentation, negotiation, and regulator-facing work. Act as a trusted counterpart to general counsel, heads of compliance, and in-house teams.
• Productizing the Practice: Turn each matter into a reusable, AI-native service, including analysis, precedents, and decision logic. Work with engineers to build tooling that enhances legal work. Set quality and review standards for AI-produced legal work.
• Building the Firm: Help establish the New York practice, including structure, intake, precedent library, and engagement terms. Develop the client base alongside founders and mentor future lawyers. As the firm grows, your scope will expand.

Requirements

• Admitted to the New York bar with a clean disciplinary record.
• Several years of experience at a leading US firm or in-house at a bank, fund, or insurer, with ownership of financial-sector matters.
• Deep expertise in at least one of: banking and financial regulation, funds and asset management, insurance regulatory, structured products, or financial transactions.
• Advisory and transactional mindset.
• Commercially sharp, able to scope and price work effectively.
• Entrepreneurial drive to build a firm from the ground up.
• Native/fluent English, based in or moving to New York.

Qualifications

• Bonus: Existing relationships with GCs or compliance leadership at banks, funds, or insurers.
• Cross-border experience with European financial institutions.
• Experience building AI-driven solutions (automations, agents, workflows).

Why Join Omnilex

• Partner-level scope from day one: own clients, mandates, and work.
• Leverage expertise through productized, reusable AI-native services.
• Sophisticated financial-sector clients without the billable-hour model.
• Compensation tied to what you build and bring in, without equity partnership constraints.
• Direct collaboration with managing partner, founders, and engineers.

Location: New York (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Legal
Compensation: $250K – $450K base salary