Legal Operations

ABOUT COLUMN

For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve.

At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us!

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Many banks treat Legal as a cost center. Column treats it as a competitive advantage — the team’s ability to move at the speed of the business is why it can be so impactful. We are a lean team that punches well above our weight, with access to the best AI tools available, and we need to 10x our impact without growing headcount. That’s where you come in.

We’re looking for the Bank’s first Legal Operations hire to serve as the team’s thought leader on what a modern, AI-native Legal function looks like at a regulated financial institution. We are not a SaaS company with standard contracts and plug-and-play provisions – the products we build are highly regulated and multi-jurisdictional, and the fintech partnerships we launch are bespoke. If a question has an easy answer, it doesn’t make it to the Legal team – this means the tooling that supports our lawyers requires creativity, a deep appr...