General Counsel

Join us to build a more rewarding financial future for all Canadians At Neo, we’re on a mission to build a more rewarding financial future for all Canadians. Life at a rapidly scaling tech startup isn’t for everyone. It’s complex, fast-paced, high-pressure, but also incredibly fulfilling. Since its founding in 2019, Neo has gained incredible traction and is one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in Canada. - #1 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 for 2023, 2024, and 2025 https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/neo-financial-achieves-first-ever-three-peat-win-as-number-one-on-deloitte-s-technology-fast-50-list-889692540.html — the first company ever to achieve a three-peat at the top! - #1 Fastest Growing Company in Canada for 2024 by Globe & Mail https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240927952651/en/Neo-Financial-Ranks-No.-1-on-The-Globe-and-Mail%E2%80%99s-2024-List-of-Canada%E2%80%99s-Top-Growing-Companies - Top-ranked mobile apps and credit cards - Team of 500+ people - 1M+ customers - 10K+ retail partners THE HONEST VERSION OF THIS JOB Neo processes millions of financial transactions for Canadians every year. We're launching new credit products, closing capital markets transactions, navigating regulators across multiple jurisdictions, and building infrastructure that didn't exist five years ago. We move fast and legal needs to move with us. Our experience shows that exceptional legal leadership transcends mere legal knowledge. We value strategic partners who champion innovation by proactively designing scalable governance frameworks and enabling safe, accelerated business growth. If you've spent your career being the person in the room that people don’t quite know what to do with, we'd like to talk. WHAT YOU'RE WALKING INTO Neo is one of Canada's fastest-growing companies, serving over one million Canadians with credit cards, savings, mortgages, and rewards. We're a software and data company operating at the intersection of technology and financial services, which means the legal surface area is genuinely interesting and uniquely complex. You'll lead a high performance Legal team,This is not a role where you inherit a mature function and optimize it. The job is to build, to recruit great people, build durable processes, figure out how to use AI to scale what your team can do, and make sure that as Neo grows, the legal function grows with it and not behind it. You'll sit on the executive team. When we're evaluating a new product, a new partnership, a new market, you're in the room before the decision is made not after. WHAT THIS JOB ACTUALLY REQUIRES You are a leader first. You develop talent, hold people to high standards, and create an environment where your team can do the best work of their careers. The lawyers who report to you should be better for having worked for you. You know how to build. You've built or scaled a legal function before, hired people, designed processes, figured out how to do more with less. You know what it feels like to be the one who creates the infrastructure versus the one who runs it. You think like a business partner. You understand that managing risk doesn't mean stopping things — it means finding the path through. You're as accountable for Neo's growth as you are for Neo's protection. You're genuinely excited about AI. Not as a buzzword. You're using it, thinking about it, and building it into how your team works. We're not looking for someone open to AI, we're looking for someone ahead of it. You're formidable. Our board includes people with deep legal backgrounds. When you're in that room, you hold your own, not because you out-credential them, but because your judgment is sound and your thinking is clear. WHAT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR We are building something different than the traditional legal model where the function acts as a gatekeeper. This role is not ideal for a legal professional who prefers to act strictly as an individual contributor over leading and scaling a team, or for th