Senior Legal Counsel

About the company
Our client operates an AI-powered investment research platform for retail investors, currently in beta. Users search a ticker to read a graded, AI-generated research report, or hire AI agents that monitor filings, price action and market flows around the clock. Creators can build and list their own agents and earn from usage.
The platform is a research product. It holds no client funds, routes no orders and does not connect to brokerages.
About the role
You will be a core legal adviser to a fast-moving product team, working on questions that have few settled answers. These include where AI-generated research sits within financial regulation, and how a creator marketplace should be structured across jurisdictions. The role suits a commercially minded lawyer who wants to shape a product rather than only review it.
Responsibilities
Product and regulatory
• Advise on the regulatory perimeter for AI-generated research, ratings and signals, including licensing and investment advice boundaries in target markets
• Work with Product and Design from the start of new features, and turn legal requirements into practical product decisions
• Maintain risk disclosures, AI-content notices and market availability rules
• Review marketing, growth and in-product claims, including agent scorecards and performance data
Commercial and contracts
• Draft and negotiate agreements with AI model providers, market data vendors, payment partners and other suppliers
• Own the user Terms of Service, subscription, credit and refund terms
• Build the creator framework, including creator agreements, listing standards, earnings, payouts, clawbacks and content liability
Data, IP and governance
• Lead privacy compliance across the jurisdictions where the product operates
• Advise on data licensing, redistribution rights, and IP in AI inputs and outputs
• Help develop AI governance policies and internal compliance training
• Support corporate matters, and manage external counsel and legal budgets
Requirements
• Qualified lawyer with in-house, private practice or regulator experience
• Experience with financial services regulation, ideally securities or investment advisory rules
• Strong commercial contract drafting and negotiation skills
• Working knowledge of data privacy, and of technology or SaaS contracts
• Clear, practical judgment and comfort with ambiguity in a start-up environment
• Excellent written and spoken English
Preferred
• Experience at a fintech, online broker, financial data company, AI company or consumer subscription business
• Multi-jurisdictional experience, particularly Hong Kong, Singapore or the United States
• Exposure to AI regulation or marketplace and platform liability
• Written and spoken Chinese
Level expectations
Legal Counsel Senior Legal Counsel
Post-qualification experience 4–7 years 8+ years
Scope Owns contracts and defined workstreams with guidance on novel issues Owns regulatory strategy and the most complex legal questions
Influence Trusted day-to-day partner to product and business teams Advises senior leadership and sets legal policy
Leadership Manages own matters and outside counsel on specific projects May build the legal function, including team and budget