Legal & Compliance - 1st hire, build with AI

Join an early-stage startup.
Accelerate economic opportunity.

Join us as Kovo's 1st and sole legal and compliance hire. There is no legal team to join. You are the function. You'll own legal and compliance end-to-end for the business we run today and for the products we launch next, and you'll take each new product from zero to one.

This role is a good fit if:

- You're a practicing attorney who has done legal and compliance work inside a high-growth fintech startup and wants to run the whole function yourself rather than inherit a team.

- Your first question on any new initiative is "what is the smallest set of obligations that gets us there," not "here is everything we'll need to comply with."

- You've worked in a engineering, product, or business role before (or alongside) your legal career, and you think like an operator.

- You'd rather automate a task out of existence than own it forever.

- You're interested in setting the foundation for a multi-product company.

ABOUT US

- Kovo is expanding access to financial tools for people historically excluded from the traditional credit system. We believe everyone deserves the opportunity for economic independence, and we're building products that help people establish financial identity and unlock opportunity.

- Over the past three years, Kovo has grown revenue 20x while maintaining exceptional capital efficiency. We rank above the 99th percentile in revenue per employee benchmarks, reflecting the leverage of a small, high-performing team.

- The team combines the ambition of a venture-scale company with the discipline of a profitable business. We reached positive free cash flow early in our lifecycle, allowing us to grow with less dilution and focus on building for the long term.

- Kovo is backed by Inspired Capital and Homebrew, and built by alumni from Plaid, Experian, Equifax, TransUnion, Innovis, Chime, Honey, Possible, Monzo, Tapcheck, OppFi, Splash, Mercury, Instacart, and more. We're lo...