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Legal Counsel

Nevis · New York, NY · Yesterday
On-siteLegal$40/hrFull-time

About the role

The In-House Legal Counsel will report to the CEO and will be responsible for establishing the legal foundation of Nevis Wealth, a fast-growing AI platform for wealth management. Based in New York and London, Nevis has raised $40 million and is backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, ICONIQ, and Ribbit.

Responsibilities

  • Own the full customer contracting lifecycle, including MSAs, SaaS agreements, DPAs, NDAs, order forms, security addenda, and vendor agreements.

  • Lead negotiations with enterprise customers, strategic partners, and key vendors.

  • Closely partner with Sales and Customer Success to improve contract velocity while managing legal risk.

  • Build scalable contract templates, negotiation playbooks, fallback positions, and approval processes.

  • Manage external counsel support where specialist expertise is required.

  • Support strategic commercial partnerships and business initiatives.

  • Own and evolve Nevis Wealth's privacy and data governance framework.

  • Advises on US privacy requirements (CCPA/CPRA and emerging state privacy regimes) as well as UK GDPR obligations.

  • Negotiate customer DPAs and privacy-related contractual commitments.

  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Security teams on data usage, AI-related product features, customer requirements, and information security matters.

  • Maintain privacy documentation, notices, and compliance records.

  • Support customer security reviews and legal responses to security questionnaires.

  • Support governance across the Delaware parent company and UK subsidiary.

  • Manage board resolutions, governance records, corporate filings, and signing authorities.

  • Partner with Finance on equity administration and cap table governance.

  • Support future fundraising activity, including investor diligence, financing documentation, and coordination with external counsel.

  • Build Nevis Wealth's legal function from the ground up.

  • Design scalable legal workflows, approval processes, and knowledge management systems.

  • Leverage AI, automation, and legal technology tools to improve efficiency and reduce external counsel spend.

  • Create self-service guidance, playbooks, and training materials for internal stakeholders.

  • Establish metrics and reporting to measure legal team effectiveness.

  • Advise on employment and contractor matters across the US and UK.

  • Support People Operations on policies and employment-related risk management.

  • Protect company intellectual property and advise on software licensing, open-source software, and AI-related legal developments.

  • Review marketing materials and external communications for legal risk.

Requirements

  • J.D. and active membership in good standing with a US state bar (New York preferred)

  • Approximately 4–8 years of relevant legal experience

  • Strong experience negotiating SaaS and technology commercial agreements

  • Working knowledge of US privacy laws and data processing agreements

  • Experience supporting technology, fintech, wealth tech, or B2B SaaS businesses

  • Strong commercial judgment and ability to balance legal risk with business objectives

  • Comfortable operating independently with limited structure and high ownership

  • Interest in legal operations, automation, AI tools, and process design

Qualifications

  • Nice to have:

  • Prior startup or high-growth company experience

  • Experience supporting venture-backed businesses through fundraising or scaling phases

  • Familiarity with Delaware corporate law and venture financing transactions

  • Exposure to fintech, financial services, or regulated industries

  • Experience implementing legal technology or workflow automation solutions

  • Working knowledge of UK legal or privacy frameworks

What success looks like within the first 12 months

  • Establish scalable legal processes that support business growth

  • Improve contract turnaround times and reduce friction in the sales process

  • Build practical privacy and governance frameworks appropriate for a scaling fintech

  • Reduce reliance on external counsel for routine matters

  • Become a trusted advisor to leadership across commercial, corporate, and operational matters

Why join Nevis

  • Build the legal function from the ground up

  • Work directly with the executive team

  • Influence company strategy during a critical stage of growth

  • Gain broad exposure across commercial, privacy, corporate, product, and fundraising matters

  • Opportunity to grow into the company's senior legal leadership role as the business scales

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