Why Chariot

<aside> 🚀 Chariot is a charitable payments company that’s revolutionizing the philanthropic financial system. We believe more money needs to move to nonprofits faster so we are building tools that activate more philanthropic dollars and transform nonprofit operations to be more efficient. We’re looking for top talent to join our mission driven team in changing the financial landscape of philanthropy.

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We are currently backed by Y Combinator, Spark Capital, SV Angel, and top-tier angel investors like Mike Massaro, Adam Grant, and Angela Duckworth. Our team is made up of passionate and talented individuals with prior work experience at Blackrock, Bain, Goldman Sachs, Palantir, and Forage (YC21).

<aside> 🗽 We are fully in-person in New York City, which helps us maintain our extremely collaborative and caring team culture. While we offer flexibility on a day to day basis, this role is expected to be in office 4-5 days a week.

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<aside> 💻 Check out our demo here and see our nonprofit advisory council.

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We are entering an exciting phase of growth and expanding our team to bring tens of thousands of nonprofits onboard while expanding our product capabilities to solve even deeper problems for the nonprofit sector.

What You'll Own

Compliance & Risk

• Lead Chariot's compliance program — policies, controls, and procedures that scale with the business
• Own BSA/AML, KYC/KYB, and payments regulatory frameworks across our banking and platform partnerships
• Respond to regulatory inquiries and audits; serve as primary point of contact with banking partners and regulators
• Monitor the evolving fintech/payments regulatory landscape and keep leadership ahead of it

Legal

• Own all commercial contracts - negotiating and managing agreements with nonprofits, fundraising platforms, DAF sponsors, and banking partners
• Advise cross-functional teams on legal risk as we expand product capabilities and enter new markets
• Build out legal operations infrastructure (templates, playbooks, outside counsel relationships)

Strategic

• Sit at the leadership table - this role shapes company decisions, not just reviews them
• Partner with Product and Engineering to ensure new features ship compliantly without slowing velocity

About You