About the company
Sezzle is a publicly traded consumer finance company (Nasdaq: SEZL) building buy-now-pay-later products and pursuing a de novo national bank charter.
Responsibilities
- Manage consumer litigation, class actions, arbitrations, and commercial disputes from intake through resolution.
- Direct outside counsel: scope, budget, staffing, and strategy.
- Own litigation holds, ESI protocols, custodian identification, and the discovery process end to end.
- Manage civil investigative demands, examination requests, subpoenas, and informal inquiries from the CFPB, FTC, state attorneys general, and state financial regulators.
- Run productions: scope negotiation, data collection, privilege review, and delivery.
- Draft response letters, white papers, and advocacy submissions; participate in regulator meetings.
- Serve as legal owner of the privacy framework: policies, notices, records of processing, data mapping, and retention.
- Advise on state privacy laws, GLBA, FCRA, CAN-SPAM, TCPA.
- Use AI to multiply throughput across research, document review, discovery, and drafting.
- Advise on AI governance as a legal matter.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one US jurisdiction.
- 5 to 7 years of combined law firm and in-house experience.
- Substantive consumer financial services experience (Reg Z, Reg B, FCRA, FDCPA, TCPA, UDAAP).
- Demonstrated ownership of litigation matters and regulatory inquiries.
- Clear, direct writing.
- Fluent use of AI as a core part of practice; experience with Claude or equivalent LLM tools required.
Conditions
- Remote role in the United States.