Our Company

Arch is a Series B financial technology company that automates the management of private investments, improving access, understanding, and the human experience of investing across asset classes.

Private investments such as venture capital, hedge funds, and private equity, make up roughly 25% of the investment universe. Traditionally, investors, advisors, banks, families, and managers track hundreds of investments in complicated spreadsheets, file folders, and busy inboxes. Not only is this tedious and time-consuming, but it is rife with opportunity for manual data entry errors, inconsistent reporting, and lost information. Enter, Arch.

Arch delivers standardized data, documents, and insights in a single platform, avoiding the need to chase information across dozens or hundreds of ‘portals’. Our purpose is to save investors’ time while empowering them to make more informed investment decisions, leading to better financial outcomes.

We are a fast-growing, dynamic team of 120+, serving over 400 clients, including several of America’s largest banks, families, and financial institutions. We’ve over doubled the size of the company every year since inception and we are looking to hire in all departments as we scale.

About the Role:

As our first full-time in-house counsel, you will lead our legal function, providing strategic and operational support across key business and regulatory matters. This role requires a proactive, hands-on attorney who can build legal infrastructure from scratch, integrate legal considerations into daily operations, and enable scalable growth. You'll manage commercial contracts and develop strategies to mitigate legal risks while advancing business objectives.

You will serve as a trusted advisor to the executive team and cross-functional leaders, delivering clear, actionable legal guidance aligned with our goals. Your work will directly shape how we innovate, expand, and navigate an evolving regulatory landscape.

What You’ll Do:

• Own commercial contracts: draft, negotiate, and manage enterprise SaaS agreements, MSAs, partnership agreements, and vendor contracts.

• Build contract strategy: create templates, playbooks, and scalable negotiation processes that streamline operations and reduce risk.

• Advise on privacy and data protection: GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and financial regulatory compliance; support or lead data privacy impact assessments (DPIAs) and compliance programs.

• Provide guidance on IP/licensing, employment, and corporate governance matters.

• Partner with outside counsel on specialized or complex legal matters.

• Establish legal infrastructure: document management, intake systems, reporting, and processes to scale with the business.

• Translate complex legal requirements into clear, actionable guidance for executives, teams, and customers.

What We're Looking For:

Experience:

• 5–10+ years total legal experience (mix of top-tier law firm and in-house preferred), including 2+ years in-house at a SaaS, fintech, or regulated tech company, ideally post‑Series A/B.

• Data security/privacy experience is strongly preferred.

• Deep commercial contracts experience: drafting, negotiating, and managing enterprise SaaS agreements, MSAs, partnership agreements, and vendor contracts.

• Privacy and data protection expertise (preferred): familiarity with GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and financial regulatory frameworks; experience with DPIAs and compliance programs.

• Exposure to IP/licensing, employment, and corporate governance matters.

• Experience working with outside counsel on specialized issues.

Skills:

• Proficient with legal tech tools (contract lifecycle management, e-signature, etc.).

• Strong business judgment: delivers pragmatic, risk-balanced guidance that enables growth.

• Autonomous and organized: able to prioritize, structure, and scale a legal function independently.

• Clear communicator: translates legal complexity into actionable, precise guidance for non-lawyers.

• Process-oriented: builds systems, intake processes, and reporting to support business operations.

A Note about us:

All of our full-time roles are based onsite at our New York City office, where our team thrives on in-person collaboration and dynamic teamwork. Being onsite daily enables us to build strong connections, collaborate effectively to solve challenges, and foster an engaging environment focused on shipping product and delivering exceptional service to our clients.

We encourage applicants currently located in or willing to relocate to the NYC area to join us in this exciting, hands-on workspace.

Some perks of working for Arch include:

• Strong Team - You’ll be backed by a strong team that consistently exceeds client expectations and ships new products quickly.

• Your work is high impact - Being part of a small team means you have real responsibility and impact from day one. You'll be involved in discussions that drive the growth and direction of our platform from the very beginning.

• Product Market Fit - We have strong product market fit, exceptionally low churn, and have grown mostly organically through word of mouth.

• Team community and camaraderie - We have enormous trust in each other and always do what we can do to support one another. We're always ready to step in to help.

• Great office - we’ve invested in a great space for the Arch team to come together, at 18th and Park in Manhattan (the old Buzzfeed / NYT headquarters).

• Lunch is on Us - Grab lunch on us while you’re in the office and take a break to laugh, brainstorm, or just hang out with your teammates over a meal.

Compensation Range: $225K - $350K