Senior Litigation Paralegal
About the role
Chime’s Legal team is seeking a senior litigation paralegal to support the company’s litigation, regulatory, and employment matters. In this role, you will help manage a diverse portfolio that includes consumer litigation and arbitration, class actions, commercial disputes, regulatory inquiries and investigations, and employment matters. You will coordinate key matter workflows, manage legal records and data, support discovery and regulatory responses, and help attorneys and cross-functional partners drive matters toward resolution.
You will also play an important role in advancing the team’s use of data, analytics, AI-enabled technologies, and other emerging tools. This includes developing reporting and dashboards, identifying trends across the team’s portfolio, and designing AI agents and workflows that make legal processes more efficient and scalable.
Our ideal candidate is a highly organized, proactive, and technologically adept paralegal who combines strong litigation experience with analytical skills and intellectual curiosity. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge fintech matters at an industry-leading company while helping build the systems and processes of a modern legal function.
The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $62.50 and up to $86.54 hourly. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.
In this role, you can expect to
- Provide senior-level paralegal support across consumer litigation and arbitration, class actions, commercial disputes, regulatory inquiries and investigations, and employment matters.
- Manage matter workflows, calendars, deadlines, legal holds, discovery, regulatory responses, and other critical litigation and regulatory processes.
- Maintain accurate matter records and data, coordinate with outside counsel and vendors, and support budgeting, invoice review, and related operational activities.
- Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting on litigation, legal spending, cycle times, filings, claims, outcomes, and emerging risk trends; analyze portfolio data and translate findings into clear, actionable insights.
- Design, test, document, and maintain AI-enabled workflows and agents that improve legal research, matter management, document review, reporting, and other team processes, with appropriate quality controls and attorney oversight.
- Partner with attorneys and cross-functional teams, including Compliance, Risk, Finance, People, Product, and Operations, to gather information, coordinate projects, and move matters forward.
- Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, improve data quality, strengthen controls, and build scalable processes across the litigation, regulatory, and employment functions.
- Assist with special projects, investigations, and broader legal operations initiatives as needed.
To thrive in this role, you have
- 7+ years of relevant paralegal experience, including substantial experience supporting complex litigation at a law firm, in-house legal department, or both.
- Experience managing litigation processes and deadlines, discovery, document collections and productions, legal holds, subpoenas, and large or complex matter portfolios.
- Strong project-management skills and a demonstrated ability to independently coordinate multiple matters, stakeholders, and competing priorities.
- Experience organizing, analyzing, and reporting on legal or operational data, with strong attention to data accuracy and quality.
- Proficiency with spreadsheets and data-visualization or business-intelligence tools; experience with SQL and Looker, Hex or comparable tools is strongly preferred.
- Experience using AI-enabled technologies and automation tools, and developing AI agents or other repeatable AI solutions to improve workflows.
- Familiarity with matter-management, e-discovery, legal-hold, document-management, and legal-billing systems.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, sound judgment, discretion, and the ability to work effectively with attorneys, business partners, outside counsel, and vendors.
- A proactive, solutions-oriented approach and a willingness to learn new technologies, take ownership, and roll up your sleeves in a fast-paced environment.
- A bachelor’s degree or paralegal certificate, or equivalent relevant experience.
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A little about us
At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created Chime-a financial technology company, not a bank*-on the premise that core banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Through our user-friendly tools and intuitive platforms, we empower our members to take control of their finances and work towards their goals. Whether it's starting a savings account, purchasing a first car or home, launching a business, or pursuing higher education, we're proud to have helped millions unlock their financial potential.
We're a team of problem solvers, dreamers, and builders with one shared obsession: our members. From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out-hustle and out-execute competitors to bring our mission to life. Their grit and determination inspire us to work harder every day to deliver the very best experience possible. We each bring an owner's mindset to our work, refusing to be outdone and holding ourselves accountable to meet and exceed the highest bars for our teams, our company, and our members.
We believe in being bold, dreaming big, and taking risks, while also working together, embracing our diverse perspectives, and giving each other honest feedback. Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress.
We know that to achieve our mission, we must earn and keep people's trust-so we hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity in everything we do. These aren't just words on a wall-our values are embedded in every aspect of our business, serving as a north star that guides us as we work to help millions achieve their financial potential.
Because if we don't-who will?
*Chime is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by The Bancorp Bank, N.A. or Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC.
What we offer for our full-time, regular employees
- Our in-office work policy is designed to keep you connected - with four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of our offices, plus team and company-wide events depending on location. Whether you’re coming in regularly or are part of our fully remote program, you’ll stay engaged with your work and teammates.
- Benefits that support your work and life, including backup child, elder, and pet care and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees.
- Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits designed to support you at every stage of life.
- Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off
- 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
- Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses
- Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- Access to family planning reimbursement
- A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help millions unlock financial progress
We know that great work can’t be done without a diverse team and inclusive environment. That’s why we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas to join our team. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.
Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis under provincial, federal, state, and local laws, regulations, or ordinances. We will also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Cook County Ordinance, NYC Fair Chance Act, and the LA City Fair Chance Ordinance, and consistent with Canadian provincial and federal laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during any stage of the application process, please contact: [email protected].
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