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That’s why we’re making it easier for more people to pay for big purchases over time.\nRetailers across the country rely on us to offer flexible lease-to-own financing to their non-prime consumers, while increasing sales and strengthening customer loyalty. Their 2M+ customers love us because we provide a flexible way for them to make payments and give them an opportunity to improve their credit. Our 200+ Koalafi teammates enjoy inspiring and challenging work that accelerates their careers.\nInterested in learning more about how we’re transforming the financing experience and joining our team?\nAssistant General Counsel \nWhat You’llDo \nKoalafi is looking for an Assistant General Counsel to lead and manage external legal matters and provide strategic legal counsel as we continue to grow and evolve our consumer-finance business. This role will have primary responsibility for managing consumer litigation and arbitration, regulatory examinations and investigations, enforcement matters, and escalated legal complaints. \nYou will manage matters from initial assessment through resolution, including internal fact development, discovery, motion and trial strategy, settlement, and coordination with regulators and outside counsel. You will work closely with partners across Compliance, Risk, Operations, Product, Finance, and Sales to assess exposure, develop effective strategies, and communicate legal risks, trends, and insights to key stakeholders and senior leadership. \nBeyond managing disputes and regulatory matters, you will also serve as a strategic legal partner to leaders across the organization as Koalafi evaluates and launches new products, capabilities, and business initiatives. You will help identify and assess legal and regulatory risks, evaluate potential exposure and tradeoffs, and provide practical, risk-based guidance that enables the business to make informed decisions and move initiatives forward. This work will span both Koalafi's traditional lending and Lease-to-Own product segments and may involve novel or evolving legal issues where sound judgment is as important as clear precedent. \nThis role is ideal for an attorney who combines meaningful consumer-financial-services litigation and regulatory experience with strong business judgment, practical risk assessment, and an execution-oriented mindset. You will serve as a trusted advisor to the General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, senior leadership, and business partners while helping Koalafi manage legal risk, support strategic growth, and build scalable processes for managing external legal matters. \nLitigation, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution \nLead Koalafi’s strategy and response across individual and class-action litigation, arbitration, threatened claims, demand letters, subpoenas, and other adversarial matters.\nManage matters throughout their full lifecycle, including initial assessment, internal fact investigation, discovery, motion practice, settlement strategy, trial preparation, and resolution.\nAssess legal, financial, operational, customer, and reputational exposure and provide clear recommendations to senior leadership.\nDirectand manage outside counsel, including matter strategy, staffing, budgets, performance, and work-product quality.\nMaintain clear reporting on active matters,significantdevelopments, potential exposure, and emerging trends. \nRegulatory Examinations& Escalated Legal Complaints \nSupportKoalafi’sresponse to regulatory examinations, investigations, inquiries, enforcement actions, and requests for information. \nManage regulatory matters from initialrequest through investigation, response, remediation, settlement, or other resolution.\nDevelop response strategies in partnership with the General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, Legal Operations team. outside counsel, and relevant internal stakeholders.\nServe as a legal point of contact for federal and state regulators and represent Koalafiwith credibility, responsiveness, and sound judgment.\nIdentify patterns across regulatory matters and escalatedlegal complaints and communicate relevant risks to the appropriate business owners. \nLegal Strategy & Operational Effectiveness \nServe as a trusted legal advisor to the General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer and senior leaders on strategic business initiatives, new products, and evolving operational priorities.\nPartner closely with Compliance, Risk, Operations, Product, and Sales to identify, assess, and address legal and regulatory risks associated with new and existing business initiatives.\nTranslate complex or evolving legal requirements into concise, practical, risk-based recommendations that enable informed business decision-making.\nEvaluate legal risk, potential exposure, and competing business considerations to help stakeholders understand available options, tradeoffs, and paths forward.\nProvide legal guidance throughout the lifecycle of strategic initiatives, from early-stage concept and design through implementation, launch, and ongoing operation.\nLead or support cross-functional legal workstreams on high-priority initiatives by aligning stakeholders, clarifying legal requirements, and helping drive issues toward practical resolution.\nDevelop practical frameworks, playbooks, and scalable legal processes that improve consistency, speed, and quality of legal decision-making across the organization. \nAbout You: \nJuris Doctor from an accredited law school.\nActive license to practice law in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, with the ability to practice as in-house counsel in Virginia and/or the District of Columbia.\n8+ years of relevant legal experience at a law firm, financial institution, fintech company, regulatory agency, in-house legal department, or a combination of these environments.\nExperience in a fintech, high-growth lending, or other dynamic and highly regulated environment.\nExperience with at least one of the following: lease-to-own products, point-of-sale financing, non-prime lending, bank-partnership models, or consumer-loan servicing.\nSignificant experience managing complex litigation, arbitration, regulatory investigations, enforcement matters, or other adversarial proceedings.\nDemonstrated experience advising business leaders on new products, strategic initiatives, or operational changes, including identifying legal and regulatory risks and translating them into practical, business-oriented recommendations.\nStrong knowledge of federal and state consumer-financial-services laws and regulations, including laws applicable to lending, servicing, payments, credit reporting, collections, and lease-to-own products.\nAbility to assess legal risk in areas where the law or regulatory expectations may be evolving, incomplete, or subject to interpretation, and to provide clear recommendations on options, tradeoffs, and paths forward.\nStrong advocacy, analytical, negotiation, collaboration, and communication skills, including the ability to give senior leaders concise, actionable, and risk-based advice.\nSound judgment and the ability to independently manage multiple high-stakes matters while also partnering effectively with cross-functional teams on strategic business priorities.\nA practical, proactive, and intellectually curious approach, with a strong 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