Senior Manager, Senior Counsel - Financial Services Legal Team (hybrid)

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Plano, TX

Senior Counsel on the Financial Services Legal Team advising on AI, machine learning, and tech-enabled products and solutions within the auto finance industry. Responsibilities include strategic advice on technology, laws, and regulations, translating complex legal and technical concepts, and partnering with business teams to foster responsible innovation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Strategic Advice: Understanding technology, the auto finance business, and the rapidly evolving landscapes for both, fostering innovation through an understanding of the applicable laws, and charting a course for rolling out, marketing, selling, and negotiating agreements for innovative products where no clear roadmap exists. You’ll drill down into _how _we do what we do, and _why _we do what we do, so we can build a better way.
  2. Translating: Understanding the law (_e.g._, data privacy, IP, antitrust, TILA/Reg Z, ECOA/Reg B, FCRA/Reg V, UDAAP), understanding the business and the auto industry, knowing the technology itself (APIs, AI, OSS, machine learning) and exhibiting an innate desire to learn along with it. You’ll appreciate dynamic business intent, regulatory requirements, and legal guardrails and best practices, fluidly transition between legalese and developer speak, and do so comfortably with analysts and senior executives alike.
  3. Business ownership: Working hand-in-hand with the business to solve problems in flight. You’ll need an ownership mindset and to view yourself as part of the business team. You don’t need to know everything about everything, but you’ll have a thirst to understand what you’re reading about – a “learning mindset” – that focuses on how to change the world in awesome ways rather than merely reciting statutes and regulations.
  4. Partnering to Foster Innovation: Collaborating closely with colleagues across the Legal Department to fully vet and scale risk. You’ll work to push responsible innovation in challenging gray areas. We place a high value on intellectual curiosity, particularly when combined with a “we’ll figure out a way” attitude.

Skills

Required

  • Juris Doctor from an accredited law school
  • Active member in good standing of at least one state bar
  • At least 4 years of experience at a law firm, at a government agency, as a military judge advocate, or as in-house counsel
  • Strong executive communication skills
  • Impeccable written and oral communication credentials
  • Strategic-influencing skills and the ability to drive consensus across diverse teams through exercising sound judgment and employing interpersonal and negotiation capabilities
  • The ability to take complex ideas/problems and break them down into simple and digestible concepts/solutions
  • A successful track record of thriving and leading with heart, hunger, humility, and horsepower in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and dynamic environment.

Nice to have

  • 3+ years of experience in advising financial-services or technology companies
  • 3+ years of experience working as an attorney on data, marketing, product development, or technology
  • Experience advising companies on matters of regulatory compliance, including with UDAAP, the FCRA, GLBA, ECOA, and TILA
  • Ability to work effectively both in teams and independently, make effective and integrated decisions, and collaborate effectively at all levels in the company
  • Ability to deal with ambiguous situations, complex concepts, and details
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to influence others
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

What the JD emphasized

  • AI, machine learning, and other tech-enabled products and solutions
  • consumer-finance laws and regulations
  • data privacy, IP, antitrust, TILA/Reg Z, ECOA/Reg B, FCRA/Reg V, UDAAP
  • APIs, AI, OSS, machine learning
  • regulatory compliance