Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2026 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team?
About the Role
Flex is hiring an Associate General Counsel, Product & Regulatory to join our Legal team. This role is an embedded legal and regulatory partner across Flex's Product, Engineering, Finance, and Business Development teams. You will counsel on product development and launches, navigate consumer financial regulation, and help shape how Flex builds compliantly at scale.
What You’ll Do
- Advise cross-functional stakeholders on new features, product enhancements, and go-to-market strategy
- Regulatory change management; monitor the consumer financial landscape and translating developments into actionable guidance for the policy team and business
- Advise senior leaders on consumer regulatory risk, enforcement trends, and litigation exposure across Flex’s product lines
- Partner with the Commercial team to review and negotiate business development and partnership agreements, providing regulatory and legal guidance on consumer finance terms and obligations.
- Contribute to legal technology initiatives, including tools and workflows that support the Product and Regulatory function.
- Contribute to building a modern, AI-native legal department developing workflows and tools that allow legal to move at the speed of the business.
What We’re Looking For
- 7+ years of legal experience in consumer financial services with exposure to fintech lending, bank-fintech partnership structures, state licensing, and federal and state consumer protection regulation.
- Fluency across consumer financial regulation - CFPB rulemaking, TILA/Reg Z, UDAP/UDAAP, money transmission, and state licensing requirements for servicing and brokering.
- Demonstrated experience as an embedded legal partner to product teams — comfortable advising on feature launches and speaking to regulatory risk at the leadership level.
- Thrives in a fast-moving environment — able to assess risk and provide sound guidance even when the full picture isn't yet clear.
- Clear, concise communicator who translates complex legal and regulatory concepts into plain language for business audiences.
- JD from an accredited law school; active bar admission required
Nice to Have
- Experience with rent-adjacent fintech, payments, or embedded finance products
Flex takes a market-based approach to pay, ensuring compensation is commensurate with a candidate's experience and our internal leveling guidelines. For candidates located in our Tier 1 (NYC/Bay Area) and Tier 3 (Salt Lake City) markets, the base salary pay range for this role is below. Flex utilizes a geographic pay differential based on a cost of labor index. If you are located outside of the cities listed below, your starting pay will be adjusted to align with the market conditions of your specific geographic zone. Please speak with your recruiter for additional information regarding the specific range for your location.
We understand that it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, curious, determined, empathetic, and self aware people to grow a successful company. Our HQ is located in New York City, but we have employees located throughout the US, Australia, Canada and South America. We are growing quickly, but deliberately, with a focus on building an inclusive culture. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity workplace.
Offices
Roles posted in New York, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City are hybrid positions with on-site expectations of 2-3 days per week in our local offices. For candidates outside of these areas, you may be eligible for our relocation assistance program.
Benefits
For full-time U.S. employees we offer:
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision
- Company equity
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Free Flex subscription
For full-time non-U.S. employees, we offer:
- Competitive compensation + company equity
- Unlimited PTO
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