Legal Counsel, Valon Mortgage
$170-200k
+ Equity program
3 days a week in office
Transforming $25B+ mortgage servicing market with software
Be an early applicant
Transforming $25B+ mortgage servicing market with software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-200k
+ Equity program
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To champion homeowners on their financial journey, as the partner they trust with their home and future.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a junior attorney from a top law firm who wants to do real legal and operational work years earlier than Big Law typically allows
- If you’re motivated by responsibility, energized by difficult problems, and excited to help architect the legal infrastructure of a high-velocity technology company, you’ll thrive here
- Juris Doctor (JD) degree (or foreign equivalent) from a leading law school
- Admitted in New York, or eligible to waive in
- ~1–4 years at a top law firm with substantive exposure to corporate, commercial, or complex regulatory matters (ideally a mix)
- Exceptional written and verbal communication with internal and external stakeholders
- Strong legal drafting skills and ability to articulate business and risk implications clearly
- Demonstrated ability to interpret complex statutes, regulations, and supervisory guidance
- Researcher with a bias toward actionable synthesis, not academic analysis
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail—especially in precision-critical contexts
- Comfort with financial concepts necessary to evaluate commercial terms
- Thrives in high-ownership environments with minimal bureaucracy
- Comfortable balancing urgency with uncompromising precision in regulated domains
- Energized by ambiguity, complexity, and solving hard problems with smart people
- Views legal as a product-enablement function, not a back-office gatekeeper
- Enjoys fast pace, honest feedback, and a culture that rewards initiative and impact
- If you want breadth, speed, and visible impact, and you want to grow faster in three years here than in ten years elsewhere, this role is for you
What the job involves
- You will be the third member of Valon’s technology legal team and will help build the legal foundation for the AI-native operating system for regulated finance
- This is not a traditional in-house support role
- You’ll operate as a true partner to product, engineering, compliance, and leadership as we scale a system of record in one of the most complex and tightly regulated industries in the world
- This is a high-ownership generalist role
- You’ll manage and prioritize a large volume of matters, shift between fast execution and meticulous precision, and develop judgment on how to balance both in environments where correctness is non-negotiable
- You will move between structured, detail-heavy workflows and open-ended, first-principles problems
- Your work will span commercial negotiations, product and AI-related regulatory analysis, corporate governance, and cross-functional legal strategy
- The surface area is unusually broad for this stage in a legal career—and intentionally so
- In a company defined by complexity, your ability to learn quickly, synthesize ambiguity, and build durable systems will matter more than years of experience
- Own negotiation and drafting for high-impact commercial agreements, including multi-million-dollar enterprise partnerships for ValonOS
- Build contracting processes and operational guardrails that enable the company to scale with both speed and precision
- Lead complex regulatory and compliance initiatives from design through implementation
- Become a trusted advisor on the frameworks governing AI, data, and financial products
- Monitor evolving federal and state law to ensure Valon remains ahead of a rapidly shifting landscape
- Develop training and compliance programs that scale across teams
- Translate emerging AI, data, and mortgage-servicing regulations into product and operational requirements—directly shaping how Valon builds and deploys the system of record for regulated finance
- Work directly with senior leadership on board governance, financings, audits, and strategic projects that influence Valon’s trajectory
- Drive cross-functional legal projects as business needs evolve in a fast-growing environment
Our take
Valon is attempting to bring smoother, clearer customer service to the often unsophisticated industry of mortgage services. Its cloud-native mobile platform allows borrowers to make payments and manage escrow accounts while avoiding time-consuming call centers, inaccurate information and poorly designed websites. In turn, lenders can use the platform to request API feeds to gather information on customer performance.
The company is aiming to disrupt and bring down the costs in a market that it sees as heavily monopolized, and which is largely devoid of customer-oriented innovation. Currently, mortgage servicing giant Black Knight controls over half of all residential loans in the US, the result of which has seen a 250% increase in servicing costs in the last decade.
Valon's growth so far has been remarkable. The company went from zero contracts in 2019 to $65 billion in mortgages in 2024, with a 400% year-on-year growth. Its remarkable growth attracted over $169 million in funding in 2024. On top of this boost, it has further diversified its capabilities to include servicing government-sponsored home loans from the Federal National Mortgage Association.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2024
$100m
SERIES C
Jul 2024
$69.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $348.8m
Company benefits
- Fully Covered Healthcare Premiums on Zero Deductible Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance Plans
- Flexible Sick Days
- Equity Packages
- Generous Vacation Policy + Multiple Company Holidays
- Provided Laptop, Custom Acessories, and Ergonomic Equipment
- Commuter Benefits
- Paid Parental Leave
- Unlimited Snacks and Drinks
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Andrew Wang
(CEO & Co-Founder)Studied Computer Science at Harvard. Interned as a Software Engineer at The White House, and Google. Was an Analyst at Goldman Sachs. Spent 4 years as a Principal to Soros Fund Management.
Linda Du
(COO)Studied Computer Science and Statistics at Harvard. Worked at Samlyn Capital and Two Sigma prior to joining Valon.
Jake Mintz
(CPO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University. Co-founded Bump Technologies which was acquired by Google.
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