About the Team and How You Fit In:

Reserve Trust is the first fintech trust company with a Federal Reserve master account. We provide B2B payments services that financial institutions and fintech’s have previously only been able to obtain from correspondent and sponsor banks. Unconstrained by legacy banking systems, the company is actively building new services, APIs, and payment rails to support embedded and real time payments for any fintech service or software platform. Headquartered in Colorado, the company is backed by some of the world’s best financial technology investors including QED and Fintech Collective.

Our Company Values:

Trust, Curiosity, Drive and Collaboration

Our Company Culture:

As a member of the Reserve Trust team, you are expected to contribute your talents and energies to conducting our business and improving the culture and quality of Reserve Trust. We value teamwork and collaboration within your department and cross functionally. We encourage knowledge sharing and challenging the norm. We value each other thru active appreciation and recognition.  Bring your best practices to the table to help us build a world class, leading payments platform that continuously pushes the envelope in customer service. We want you to be the best version of yourself with us!

We are looking for a seasoned commercial lawyer to join our legal team and help manage the novel legal issues that present as we work to modernize B2B payments. In a nutshell, you will serve as the point person for managing legal risks related to our commercial relationships with customers and key vendors. This will include helping establish and manage corporate law functions that enable us to rapidly scale. Reporting to the Head of Legal, you will work with all functions of the company.

You will be our second full-time lawyer and thus an integral strategic leader across the organization. You will take lead in advising on legal matters involving customers and vendors, among others. To be successful in this role, you will need to be hard-working, industrious, flexible to changing priorities, and willing to roll up your sleeves. You must be able to work independently and collaboratively. And you must enjoy translating legal analysis into actionable plans and recommendations.

What You’ll Do:

Manage legal aspects of customer and key vendor relationships

Draft, negotiate, and advise on a wide variety of commercial agreements

Provide legal support on a wide range of strategic and operational matters

Establish efficient, scalable processes for providing commercial legal support – especially processes to enable Reserve Trust to execute agreements with customers at scale

Serving as Assistant Corporate Secretary, support board committee operations (e.g., minutes, resolutions, charter compliance)

Assist the Head of Legal/Corporate Secretary with board and investor support

Provide legal counsel and recommendations to all departments

Proactively identify and execute opportunities for Legal to add value to the company

Manage outside counsel

Basic Qualifications:

Excellent track record of academic and professional success

At least 5 years’ experience practicing corporate law, ideally with a larger law firm or in-house at a high-growth company

Significant experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements

Experience advising high growth companies, ideally payments companies, especially on corporate and transactional matters

An active law license in at least one state, ideally Colorado

Exceptional judgment, written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail, and emotional intelligence

Ability to manage numerous projects at once and prioritize effectively, typically under tight deadlines

Willingness to take ownership of a project or situation, handling whatever needs to be done, even if it isn’t traditional “lawyer” work

Passion for innovations in financial technology and the prospects for revolutionizing business payments

Key Competencies:

· Resourcefulness

Excellent time management skills

· Drives results

· Communicates effectively

· Organizational savvy

· Exceptional negotiation skills

· Business insight

What Reserve Trust Offers:

· Competitive Salaries

· Stock Options

· 401(k) with company contribution

· Excellent No-Cost and Low-Cost Medical, Dental and Vision plans for employees and dependents

· Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance

· FSA and HSA Plans

· Flexible PTO

· Home office stipend

We feel passionately about equal pay for equal work, and transparency in compensation is one vehicle to achieve that. Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a base salary range of $150,000 – 170,000. Reserve Trust intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience.

The Reserve Trust Company does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, national origin, disability, gender, or any other protected status.