Senior Counsel - Product

The role

The Senior Counsel, Product provides strategic legal guidance across the full lifecycle of DailyPay's products and services. This individual contributor advises Product, Engineering, Design, and executive leaders on compliant and scalable innovations.

What you will do

• Lead legal review of new product features, service enhancements, and AI-driven workflows.
• Define legal strategy for the product roadmap.
• Serve as subject matter expert on consumer financial protection and regulatory frameworks.
• Partner with Design, Content, and Marketing teams to build compliant user journeys and disclosures.
• Resolve systemic product-legal challenges.
• Direct legal alignment with sponsor banks, payment processors, and payment networks.
• Lead drafting and negotiation of complex product agreements and strategic integrations.
• Maintain and update product-legal playbooks and compliance templates.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of legal experience.
• Top-tier law firm training.
• In-house fintech or highly regulated technology company experience.
• Expert-level knowledge of consumer financial services regulations (EFTA/Reg E, TILA/Reg Z, UDAAP), money transmission, and EWA regulatory frameworks.
• Background supporting payments/fintech product launches, affiliate marketing programs, and complex commercial contracts.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and translate legal concepts for non-legal stakeholders.
• Success collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Design teams.
• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school.
• Active Bar membership in good standing.

Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental care
• Life and AD&D
• Short- and long-term disability
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Resource Groups
• Unlimited PTO
• 401K with company match

About the company

DailyPay is the leader in On-Demand Pay, helping employers modernize how people get their pay. The company serves more than 1,900 employers and over 6 million employees.