Join a dynamic legal team that shapes the future of Consumer & Community Banking. As part of the Control Functions Legal (CFL) group, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring compliance and supporting business growth. Your expertise will help drive innovation, manage regulatory change, and safeguard our operations. Collaborate with talented professionals and leverage emerging technologies to make a meaningful impact. Take your career to the next level with CFL.

As a Legal Counsel in the Control Functions Legal (CFL) team, you will monitor, analyze, and report on legal and regulatory developments affecting Consumer & Community Banking (CCB). You’ll partner with stakeholders across CCB to manage change, support compliance, and enhance legal processes. This role offers the opportunity to work on high-impact projects, develop AI-driven legal solutions, and contribute to the success of a leading financial institution.

The Legal Department at JPMorgan Chase & Co. manages legal and other risks, advises on products and services, interprets laws and regulations that impact the firm, and advises the firm on other matters.  Our global team is made up of about 2,000 lawyers and legal professionals with a reputation as thought leaders who deliver best-in-class services. As trusted advisors, we help the firm’s clients while also safeguarding the integrity of the firm.  We are committed to a culture of inclusivity and belonging, where people can grow and succeed throughout their careers while working for a first-in-class financial institution doing cutting-edge work. If these values resonate with you, we would like to hear from you.

 

Job Responsibilities

• Monitor legal and regulatory developments affecting CCB
• Draft clear, concise summaries of developments and their impacts
• Partner with Legal and control functions on regulatory and change management matters
• Design, implement, and enhance legal and regulatory change management processes
• Assess and leverage emerging technology for process improvement
• Develop and refine AI prompts and inputs to support legal research and workflows
• Respond to regulator, audit, and compliance inquiries
• Support special research projects as needed
• Collaborate effectively within the team and across departments
• Take ownership of responsibilities and proactively solve problems
• Multitask and prioritize work in a fast-paced, complex environment

Required qualifications, skills and capabilities 

• J.D. or educational equivalent required.
• Admission to practice law and compliance with all relevant licensing requirements, including the specific requirements of the jurisdiction where the role will be located prior to commencement of employment. 
• Three or more years of experience in legal practice in consumer banking, financial services regulation, and/or financial services litigation. 
• Excellent legal analysis and research skills, including issue-spotting. 
• Knowledge of US state legislative and regulatory processes. 
• Strong written and oral communication skills. 
• Ability to draft and refine existing AI prompts and assistants.
• Work effectively, both independently and as part of a team, to take ownership of responsibilities, to collaborate well, and proactively solve problems. 
• Multitask and prioritize work intelligently in a fast-paced and complex business environment. 
• All candidates for roles in the Legal department must successfully complete a conflicts of interest clearance review prior to commencement of employment. 

 

Preferred qualifications, skills and capabilities 

• Regulatory, government, or compliance experience 
• Familiarity with Artificial Intelligence, including Machine Learning Large Language Models and Agentic AI  
• Business Intelligence Solutions Applications 
• Technological mindset/background  

 

All candidates for roles in the Legal department must successfully complete a conflicts of interest clearance review prior to commencement of employment.