Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Omnilex is building an AI-native US law firm and technology platform for scalable legal services. The lawyer will advise sophisticated financial-sector clients on regulatory, transactional, and structuring matters while productizing legal expertise into reusable AI-native services and helping build the New York practice.
Responsibilities
- Advise banks, asset managers, funds, and insurers on regulatory, transactional, and structuring questions across US and cross-border mandates
- Own matters end-to-end: scoping, analysis, memos, documentation, negotiation, regulator-facing work
- Be the trusted counterpart to general counsel, heads of compliance, and in-house teams
- Turn each matter into a reusable, AI-native service: the analysis, the precedents, the decision logic
- Work side by side with our engineers to build the tooling that does the work with you
- Set the quality bar and the review standards that make AI-produced legal work defensible
- Help stand up the New York practice: structure, intake, precedent library, engagement terms
- Develop the client base together with the founders, from first conversation to signed mandate
- Bring in and mentor the lawyers who follow you
Skills
- Admitted to the New York bar, with a clean disciplinary record
- Several years at a leading US firm or in-house at a bank, fund, or insurer, with real ownership of financial-sector matters
- Deep in at least one of: banking and financial regulation, funds and asset management, insurance regulatory, structured products, or financial transactions
- Advisory and transactional by temperament
- Commercially sharp. You can read what a client actually needs and price and scope the work accordingly
- Entrepreneurial. The prospect of building a firm from the first mandate is the reason you are interested
- Native/fluent English, based in or moving to New York
- Existing relationships with GCs or compliance leadership at banks, funds, or insurers
- Cross-border experience with European financial institutions
- You have built something with AI, not just used it. An automation, an agent, a workflow. Tell us what it does
Benefits
- Offers Bonus
- Partner-level scope from day one: your own clients, your own mandates, your own name on the work
- You work with leverage no traditional firm can give you: your expertise, productized, deployed again and again
- Sophisticated financial-sector clients and substantive mandates, without the billable-hour machine
- Compensation that rewards what you build and bring in, without the capital commitment and lock-in of an equity partnership
- Direct line to the managing partner, founders, and the engineers building the product
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