Sr Counsel, Product

As Senior Counsel, Product (Employee Ecosystem) at EarnIn, you will play a critical role in enabling and scaling our growing suite of employee-centric products by providing strategic, practical legal guidance across product development, operations, and regulatory compliance. You will bring curiosity, creativity, and sound judgment to support the design and launch of payroll, job applicant, and applicant tracking-related products and features within a highly complex and evolving regulatory framework spanning employment law, payroll tax, payments, privacy, and financial services.

You will partner closely with product, engineering, compliance, operations, and senior legal leaders to develop new payroll and job applicant-related offerings, enhance existing features, and manage regulatory risk while supporting business innovation. The legal issues you encounter will be nuanced, fast-moving, and operationally complex, requiring the ability to translate law into scalable product solutions.

The ideal candidate has substantial experience advising payroll service providers, workforce platforms, or fintechs with payroll, wage, or earned wage access components, and is comfortable working at the intersection of employment law, payments, privacy, and financial regulation. You will be a pragmatic advisor who communicates clearly with non-lawyers, separates the theoretical from the operational, and approaches problem-solving with a “yes, and” mindset—helping the business move from 0 to 1 while putting customers first and mitigating regulatory risk. This role requires managing multiple workstreams simultaneously and strong organizational skills, prioritization, and independent judgment.

This position is required to be in our Mountain View, CA headquarters at least two days per week. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $215,000 – $275,000 + equity + benefits. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.