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General Counsel 🔥


About Us

Upside gives businesses the freedom to grow. We give consumer goods brands loans to produce new inventory when they need it, without interrupting their cash flow. That leaves consumer startups with more cash on hand to put back into their business.

Our founding team is one of people who’ve lived and breathed our customers’ pain points. And we’re already seeing rapid traction; within weeks of launch, we closed $10.6M in seed funding, a $30m debt facility, and partnerships opening up a pipeline of over 10,000 customers.

Most importantly, we’re growing 🤗 We’re building a culture-forward team of talented, curious people (35 and counting!). We’d love for you to join us.

 

The Opportunity

As our first General Counsel, you will build and lead the Legal function that supports Upside’s strategic and commercial priorities while ensuring that we appropriately manage legal risk and remain compliant.

 

What you’ll do:

  • Drive our legal strategy by providing research, general advice, counsel, and recommendations to the business on customer and vendor contracts, privacy and cybersecurity, new partnerships, intellectual property, regulatory compliance, corporate communications, debt and equity fundraising and employment matters

  • Provide practical legal advice and risk mitigation strategies on new products and features

  • Develop functional plans for managing legal matters, including activities to be performed in-house or through outside counsel to best manage the company's legal activities and minimize risk for the business

  • Resolve legal-related disputes with third parties, managing outside litigation resources as necessary

  • Advise on commercial deals and major business transactions, including joint ventures and M&A

  • Build out our in-house legal and compliance teams as we scale

 

How We Hire & What We’re Looking For:

We prioritize culture-add over culture-fit, hire for potential, and value transferable skills. Skills and attributes that we think would make someone successful in this role include, but are not limited to: 

  • 8+ years of experience as a lawyer: ideally you’ve worked at a corporate law firm and as an in-house counsel at another company or startup (Fintech is preferred but not required)

  • Conceptual thinking, creativity: Ability to view the larger picture of the product process and associated risks, and to advise the business on appropriate structures, applicable regulations, and best practice.

  • Track record of strong business partnering and providing best-in-class legal support across spectrum of corporate / commercial legal issues

  • Able to keep on top of a rapidly evolving regulatory environment while assisting the business to develop innovative but appropriate products

  • Knowledge of and experience applying banking and lending regulatory laws and experience with state licenses or bank partnerships is a plus

 

Our Benefits and Beliefs

🍏 Wellness:

Fully covered medical, dental, and vision + $100/mo to spend on your wellness, however you see fit.

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Generous time off & flexible working hours:

Work when you're at your best and rest when you need it.

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Ongoing education:

We cover the costs of books, podcasts, and classes that support career growth related to your role and our industry.

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Equity and Inclusion:

We’re building a culture with E&I at the center of how we operate, not the fringes.

✈️ Team retreats and travel:

We cover the cost of bi-annual team retreats, ad-hoc team meetings, and travel no questions asked.

 

Upside Financing is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you need additional accommodations to feel comfortable during your interview process, please email us at recruiting@upsidefinancing.com

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