[Hiring] General Counsel @Sezzle

Role Description

We are seeking a best in class tech-driven General Counsel. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team.

The General Counsel serves as Sezzle’s most senior legal and compliance executive, providing strategic legal leadership across all business lines while directly overseeing the Compliance department. This is not a traditional legal role. We are a technology company first, and our GC must lead with that same orientation, embracing AI-powered legal operations, accelerating the team’s use of emerging tools, and acting as a force multiplier for Sezzle’s speed of innovation. The GC will own the full legal and compliance mandate including:

• Consumer lending regulation
• State and federal licensing
• ILC bank charter regulatory strategy
• Corporate governance
• Product counsel
• Enterprise risk

This role is critical to Sezzle’s next chapter. As we pursue a Utah Industrial Loan Company (ILC) bank charter and build out a full-service consumer financial platform, the GC will be at the center of some of the most consequential legal and regulatory decisions in the company’s history.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated track record of leading AI implementation within a legal or compliance function.
• Experience building or leading compliance operations at a high-growth fintech, digital lender, or regulated technology company.
• Regulatory experience navigating CFPB, FTC, state banking regulators, and/or FDIC examinations.
• Exceptional ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable business guidance.
• Strong team-building instincts.
• Strategic thinker with operational discipline.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Deep expertise in U.S. consumer lending regulation with direct BNPL, pay-in-four, short-term lending, earned wage access, or adjacent consumer finance experience is preferred.

Requirements

• J.D. from a top-ranked U.S. law school; law review or equivalent academic distinction preferred.
• 8–15 years of relevant legal experience; a mix of elite law firm and in-house is the ideal trajectory.
• Direct experience with ILC charter applications or de novo bank formation is a significant differentiator.
• Prior experience in BNPL, payday lending, consumer installment lending, personal loans, or near-Sezzle consumer finance verticals strongly preferred.
• Background or active interest in financial technology product development.
• Public company experience (SEC reporting, Regulation FD, proxy statements) is a plus.
• Familiarity with Canadian consumer protection law is an asset.

Benefits

• At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators.
• Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.