Product Counsel

Kikoff:
The Fintech Powering Financial Security at Scale Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security. With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.
We're scaling fast. Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.

Why Kikoff:

This is a consumer fintech startup, and you will be working with serial entrepreneurs who have built strong consumer brands and innovative products. We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships. Yes, you can build an exciting business AND have real-life real-customer impact.

We are looking for a talented, curious lawyer to serve as a legal partner to our product, engineering, and business teams. You will work across Kikoff's growing product ecosystem — including credit-building products, earned wage access (EWA), and new product lines in development — to help us move fast while staying on the right side of a complex and evolving regulatory landscape.

This role is a fit for someone who is early enough in their career to still be building depth, but far enough along to own problems end to end. You will have real ownership over your matters from day one and a direct line of sight into how legal decisions shape the product. You should be comfortable operating in areas of legal ambiguity, eager to learn both bank-partnered and direct-to-consumer product structures, and excited by the intersection of consumer financial services and technology.

• Act as a day-to-day legal advisor to product and engineering teams throughout the product development lifecycle, from concept through launch and iteration, escalating novel or bet-the-company questions as appropriate.
• Advise on the design, structuring, and regulatory implications of consumer financial products, including credit-building trade lines, earned wage access, and new product concepts.
• Research and apply federal and state consumer financial regulations, including TILA, ECOA, FCRA, EFTA, UDAAP, state financial regulation, and the evolving EWA regulatory landscape.
• Provide guidance on marketing and communications under TCPA, CAN-SPAM, and other state and federal law.
• Support both bank-partnered and non-bank product structures.
• Advise on data privacy and consumer data protection requirements.
• Track regulatory developments — particularly from the CFPB, state regulators, and the courts — and translate them into practical, actionable product guidance.
• Support state licensing applications, renewals, and compliance filings.
• Draft, review, and negotiate consumer-facing terms and disclosures, a variety of different marketing materials, and commercial agreements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with compliance, risk, marketing, and operations to embed legal guardrails without slowing the pace of innovation.

• J.D. from an accredited law school.
• Be an active member of the California state bar or registered in-house counsel in California.
• 5-8 years of legal experience, including meaningful time in consumer financial services, fintech, or a closely adjacent regulatory practice. A mix of law firm and in-house experience is a plus, but we are open to candidates coming directly from a firm.
• Working knowledge of federal consumer finance statutes (TILA, ECOA, FCRA, EFTA) and a willingness to build depth quickly in state lending and money transmission frameworks.
• Exposure to at least one of: credit‑building or credit reporting products, earned wage access, consumer lending…