Senior Corporate Counsel

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New York, NY
149K-185K Annually
Mid level
Consumer Web • Fintech
Instant financing to fuel your lifestyle.
The Role
As Senior Corporate Counsel, you'll manage corporate legal matters, support capital markets initiatives, and work with business teams on various legal agreements.
Summary Generated by Built In

Octane® is revolutionizing recreational purchases by delivering a seamless, end-to-end digital buying experience. We connect people with their passions by combining cutting-edge technology and innovative risk strategies to make lifestyle purchases - like powersports vehicles, RVs, and OPE - fast, easy, and accessible.

Octane adds value throughout the customer journey: inspiring enthusiasts with our editorial brands, including Cycle World® and UTV Driver®, instantly prequalifying consumers for financing online, routing customers to dealerships for an easy closing, and supporting customers throughout their loan with superior loan servicing.

Founded in 2014, we’re a remote-first company with 550+ employees and over 30 OEM and 4,000 dealer partners.

We are looking for a motivated Senior Corporate Counsel to join our dynamic corporate legal team. As Senior Corporate Counsel, you will be a key member of our legal department, working collaboratively with the Finance team to develop and execute on our capital markets initiatives, and with other departments across the organization to advise on a variety of partnerships, transactions and general corporate matters. We expect our Senior Corporate Counsel to be able to grasp new concepts quickly and be willing to jump into the fray on a wide range of projects.

Specifically, you will:

  • Report to the Associate General Counsel and work collaboratively with cross-functional leaders around the organization.
  • Build close relationships with business partners across the Company, including members of the product, engineering, sales, risk, operations, finance and people teams and advise on a wide range of corporate matters.
  • Support the Company’s capital markets initiatives, including negotiation of warehouse agreements, securitizations and other debt facilities, as well as forward flow and other loan sale arrangements.
  • Manage ongoing relationships with financial counterparties, including facilitating required reporting in conjunction with the financial operations team and documenting amendments as needed in conjunction with the credit and capital markets teams.
  • Assist with the Company’s equity raising transactions and capitalization table management, including administration of the Company’s employee stock option plan.
  • Review, draft and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements including MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, leases and vendor and partnership agreements.

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience running successful corporate transactions.
  • Experience working with public companies and public company reporting.
  • Experience with debt or equity capital markets transactions, structured finance, and/or other secured lending transactions.
  • Familiarity with consumer lending regulations and processes.
  • Familiarity with securities laws.

Requirements: 

  • Member of a US State Bar.
  • J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school.
  • Minimum 3-4 years of experience practicing corporate law at a law firm.
  • Ability to proactively manage a diverse and complex workload, while maintaining priorities and driving towards successful outcomes.
  • Solid written and verbal communication skills with an ability to translate complex legal issues into concise and practical guidance.
  • Excellent strategic business insight and personal integrity.
  • Detail-oriented, enthusiastic, resourceful, diligent, and comfortable acting in the face of ambiguity.

Compensation: The role described above offers a base salary of $149,000 to $185,000.  Your offer will be based on the alignment of your qualifications with the requirements of the job, location, and internal equity.  In addition to the above-mentioned salary, Total Rewards include a corporate bonus program, stock option package, and benefits as outlined below.

Benefits:

  • Robust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision) 
  • Generous Parental Leave
  • Flexible Time Off (FTO)
  • Retirement Plan (401K) with company match
  • Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $3K/year
  • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
  • Short Term/Long Term Disability
  • Robust Ancillary benefits including accident insurance, hospital insurance etc. 
  • Powersports Safety Benefit
  • Wellhub (Gympass) Wellness Benefit

DisclaimerThe above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by associates assigned to this classification.  They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.  All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Octane Lending is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment.


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The Company
New York, NY
500 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Our Story
Octane was founded in 2014 to make financing powersports fast and easy.

Octane offers instant financing to fuel your lifestyle. We’re passionate about fast and fair lending, so we built the Octane Platform to enable instant financing for as many people as possible. And because we’re quicker and simpler than other lending platforms, we’re growing fast. Octane reaches millions of enthusiasts through editorial brands like Cycle World and UTV Driver and helps consumers buy their favorite products by prequalifying them on dealer and OEM websites. Join us in our mission to connect people with their passion.

Instant Finance Offers
Octane Prequal expands markets by providing personalized, real rates and payments. We give dealers and consumers tools to compare and understand what they can afford, even without perfect credit.

Soft-Pull, Impact-Free Credit Technology
We feel strongly about not impacting potential customers’ credit scores, so we built a technology that lets shoppers browse vehicles and rates without the damaging impact of hard credit pulls.

Robust Digital Tooling for Dealers
Our Dealer Platform provides flexibility and financing options for dealers. Octane enables serving more customers faster with an instant, fully digital experience, shaving hours off deal times. Octane increases sales and customer satisfaction.

Why Work With Us

We’re a diverse team of innovators determined to give our customers the best possible experience. Information is shared transparently, enabling cross-functional collaboration. We’re a performance based culture where accomplishments are both celebrated and rewarded, always looking for new talent to help us develop our industry-leading products.

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