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Omnilex

Lawyer – Financial Services

New York

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Role family
Legal
Seniority
Mid level
Stated salary
$250,000 – $450,000 per year
Country
US
Work mode
Remote-friendly
First seen by hirly
28 Sept 2026

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About us

Omnilex started by building the AI workspace lawyers actually want to use, including the world's first AI-powered legal commentary, a living layer of legal understanding that redefines how lawyers work. In just one year, that product became the daily tool of thousands of legal professionals across Switzerland, Germany, and Liechtenstein, and a leading legal AI workspace in those markets.

Now we are using that foundation to build something even bigger: an AI-native law firm in the US. Every case its lawyers solve becomes a productized, AI-native service: legal capability that scales, compounds, and can be deployed on demand for the next client. With a USD 4.5M raise, we're scaling internationally. You'll be joining a small, ambitious team of 17.

The role

You are the firm's first lawyer advising banks, funds, and insurers out of New York

You will run real mandates for sophisticated financial-sector clients: regulatory, transactional, and advisory work where the answer is not in a template and the client is paying for judgment. Non-contentious by design. We will litigate too.

And every matter you solve becomes a product. Working directly with the managing partner, founders, and our engineers, you turn your own expertise into AI-native services the firm can deploy for the next client in a fraction of the time. That is the whole thesis, and you are the person who proves it.

This is a firm to be built, not a seat to fill. You will shape the practice, the client base, and how the work gets done.

What you will do

Client work

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

Productizing the practice

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

Building the firm

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

This list will not stay static. As the firm grows, so does your scope.

Who you are

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

Bonus:

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

Why join Omnilex

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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Legal services in the US are provided by an independent law firm owned by licensed attorneys. Omnilex is its technology and operations partner.

Original posting on Omnilex's site ↗

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