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 200 serving over 400 clients including several of Americas largest banks families and financial institutions. Weve 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. Youll 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 Youll 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 Were Looking For:

Experience:

• 510 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 postSeries 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 - Youll 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. Youll 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. Were always ready to step in to help.

• Great office - weve 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 youre in the office and take a break to laugh brainstorm or just hang out with your teammates over a meal.

Required Experience:

Director