Director of Product Counsel, Collective
$260-300k
Offers Equity and Bonus
Back-office platform for self-employed people
Posted today
Back-office platform for self-employed people
201-500 employees
Posted today
$260-300k
Offers Equity and Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower Businesses-of-One to succeed for the life of their business and beyond.
Role
Who you are
- JD and active bar admission, with 10+ years of legal experience and substantial in-house regulatory compliance experience
- Experience owning legal and regulatory matters for a regulated consumer or SMB product, ideally in fintech, payments, insurance, tax, lending, or another licensed vertical
- Strong knowledge of tax and privacy regulations, including Circular 230, IRC §7216, GLBA, CCPA, and CPRA, with experience navigating consumer data, vendor relationships, and automated decisioning
- Demonstrated experience building a compliance program from the ground up, including regulatory obligations, policies, controls, monitoring, and governance
- Experience partnering directly with Product teams and embedding legal and regulatory requirements into product development and launch, rather than reviewing finished products
- Strong track record drafting clear, concise consumer-facing terms, disclosures, and communications, with the judgment to balance regulatory risk with business and member experience
- Strong executive presence and judgment, with the ability to challenge commercial leaders, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and make practical decisions in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment
- Experience using AI-enabled workflows to scale the function
What the job involves
- As Director, Product Counsel, you’ll be Collective’s product and regulatory lawyer, carrying the regulatory position across tax, payroll, and financial services
- You’ll partner closely with Product and Member Operations to embed legal and regulatory requirements into products and operations from the start, rather than reviewing them at launch
- You’ll also build and own Collective’s compliance program, including our regulatory obligations, policies, controls, monitoring, and risk governance
- You’ll chair the Risk Oversight Committee and manage relationships with specialist regulatory counsel
- This is a high-autonomy, high-visibility role for a builder who can set the standard, make sound judgment calls, and lead cross-functional teams toward practical solutions
- Serve as the embedded regulatory partner to Product and Member Operations, advising on product design, development, and launch across tax, payroll, financial services, and other regulated activities
- Establish and enforce clear regulatory launch standards, with the authority to hold releases that do not meet them
- Build and own Collective’s compliance program, including regulatory obligations, policies, controls, monitoring, and change management
- Develop policies governing member advice, data use, and marketing, and partner with Member Operations to embed them into day-to-day operations
- Own marketing and lifecycle compliance, including advertising claims, endorsements, CAN-SPAM, TCPA, and auto-renewal requirements
- Establish the framework for using member data across products and marketing, including IRC §7216, and partner with Information Security on GLBA, CCPA, CPRA, and incident response
- Own AI and automated-decisioning disclosures and ensure member-facing terms, disclosures, consent flows, and communications are clear and compliant
- Chair the Risk Oversight Committee, own the risk register and annual regulatory review, and manage relationships with specialist regulatory counsel
Our take
Collective is tapping into the quickly growing freelance and self employed workforce with a back office platform which provides full support for accounting, tax, bookkeeping and other financial admin, essentially removing the burden from the business owner entirely.
Launched in 2020, Collective didn’t take long to receive major backing from General Catalyst as well as Ashton Kutcher’s VC fund Sound Ventures. It’s put it to great use too, with an employee headcount now in the hundreds, showing just how fast the startup is growing.
Interestingly, Collective isn’t available for any and all subscribers. Rather, it only allows applicants to become members if Collective’s advisors know they can offer real value. It may seem a counter-intuitive move, but it keeps the company’s success rate high.
The company's latest funding round, raised in 2023, supports the accelerated implementation of AI across its operations as well as expanded onboarding efforts. Collective also continues to broaden the value of its offering, for example wit the launch of an AI accounting platform for one-person operations.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$50m
EARLY VC
May 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $78.7m
Company benefits
- Flex work setup
- Flexible PTO
- 14 paid holidays
- Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
- Health, dental, and vision
- Additional medical coverage
- 401k plan
- Equity
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Hooman Radfar
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously co-founded and was CEO of AddThis (acquired by Oracle), and was a founding partner at early stage startup accelerator Expa.
Ugur Kaner
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Was CPO before taking on an Advisor role. Joined YC startup in 2015 MBX as VP of Product Design, building multi-brand beauty and personal care startup Memebox. Helped to build the now public Udemy, and has worked with Google, Angry Birds, and Nokia.
Bugra Akcay
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Co-founded and was CTO of Hike, an accounting and tax platform for freelancers which preluded Collective. Was also the co-founder and CTO of Cici Meze, an enterprise food informatics company.
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