Staff General Counsel

Specifics About The Role:

We are hiring a Staff General Counsel to serve as Frame's first in-house legal hire. You will own the legal function across commercial agreements, banking and payment network relationships, employment matters, corporate governance, and regulatory affairs. This is a build role. You will establish how Frame manages legal risk, and you will be a business partner, not a gatekeeper.

Why Frame:

Frame is a compliance infrastructure company powering payments for complex, highly regulated industries. We enable businesses to move money with confidence by embedding compliance and payments into a single, intelligent platform. Our ambition is to become the infrastructure layer that regulated businesses rely on to operate, scale, and access services globally.

At Frame, how we build matters as much as what we build. We're headquartered in Los Angeles with a globally distributed team. We're committed to running an inclusive and accessible hiring process. If you need any adjustments along the way, let us know.

What You'll Do

• • Own commercial contracts including merchant agreements, partner contracts, vendor relationships, and NDAs
• Negotiate and maintain banking and card network agreements that underpin Frame's business
• Manage corporate governance including board matters, equity, cap table, and entity structure
• Ensure employment law compliance across Frame's jurisdictions
• Drive regulatory strategy in coordination with the CCO, understanding how legal and compliance intersect
• Build the legal infrastructure including outside counsel relationships, contract management systems, and internal policies

What We Require:

• • 7+ years of legal experience, with significant time in fintech, payments, or financial services
• JD and active bar membership
• Experience negotiating and structuring commercial agreements in a financial services context
• Working knowledge of payments regulation, card network rules, and banking partner dynamics
• The judgment to say yes to the right things quickly, and no to the wrong things clearly
• Comfort operating as a generalist. You don't need a team of specialists under you to get things done

You'll Be Successful If:

• • You bring prior in-house experience at a payment facilitator, processor, or regulated fintech
• You've handled a fundraise, M&A process, or significant regulatory matter independently
• You have experience with high-compliance merchant verticals like gaming, gambling, telehealth, or crypto, or a prior BigLaw background with a transition to in-house
• You are someone who treats legal as a function that moves the business forward, not one that slows it down
• You know the difference between a real risk and a theoretical one, and you make calls quickly when the situation warrants it
• You build infrastructure that scales rather than creating bottlenecks that don't

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Unlimited PTO with trust to manage your own time.

A wellness budget covering dental, vision, and a free Equinox membership, plus team-led running and spin groups.

Daily lunch and a fully stocked snack kitchen in our Los Angeles office.

Apple hardware, Frame branded merch, regular company off-sites, and a relocation package if you're not already local.