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Compliance and Legal Counsel

Kastle · San Francisco · On-site

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About Kastle

One platform that keeps originations, fulfillment, and servicing moving 24/7, built for regulated work and connected to the systems you already use. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

We’re looking for a Compliance Counsel to help build the regulatory foundation behind Kastle’s AI agents. You’ll work directly with our founders, product and engineering teams, and customers to translate financial services regulations into practical product requirements, compliance tests, and operating controls. You’ll also handle commercial contract reviews and help customers understand how our agents fit into their compliance programs. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • A JD and active membership in good standing with a U.S. state bar, with eligibility to practice as in-house counsel in California
  • 4+ years of relevant legal or regulatory compliance experience, including hands-on work within a lender, bank, or fintech
  • Experience partnering with product and engineering teams at a technology company to bring regulated products to market
  • Strong knowledge of lending and banking compliance, with the judgment to research unfamiliar issues and know when to involve specialist counsel
  • Experience translating regulatory requirements into policies, controls, monitoring, or compliance testing
  • Ability to independently review, draft, and negotiate commercial agreements
More about this role

Kastle is building the AI employee for banks. Our AI agents help financial institutions originate loans, process payments, and support customers through some of their most important financial decisions. We’ve processed more than $2 billion in transactions and raised a $24M Series A, with backing from Insight Partners and Y Combinator.

We’re building AI for environments where accuracy, reliability, and compliance matter every day.

We’re looking for a Compliance Counsel to help build the regulatory foundation behind Kastle’s AI agents.

You’ll work directly with our founders, product and engineering teams, and customers to translate financial services regulations into practical product requirements, compliance tests, and operating controls. You’ll also handle commercial contract reviews and help customers understand how our agents fit into their compliance programs.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role with broad ownership. You should be as comfortable writing a test case for a borrower interaction as you are redlining a customer agreement or discussing a regulatory question with a bank’s compliance team.

Build our AI compliance program. Establish the policies, controls,...

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