Overview As Corporate Counsel, you will serve as a trusted legal partner across the organization to provide practical, risk-balanced guidance on banking and corporate matters. You will collaborate with the General Counsel and leadership to support strategic initiatives, manage legal risk, and advise on day-to-day operations. You will engage with areas such as payments, retail, mortgage, compliance, and vendor management, with responsibilities aligned to your strengths. This is an opportunity to shape legal support in a community bank environment with broad exposure and impact.
Compensation / Benefits- Health, Dental & Vision
- 401K Retirement Plan with Employer Match
- Paid Parental Leave
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Generous PTO and Holiday pay
Responsibilities- Provide legal support across banking functions (Payments/Kotapay, Retail, Mortgage, Compliance/Risk, Deposit Operations)
- Lead contract review and negotiation in partnership with Vendor Management
- Coordinate work with outside counsel as needed
- Provide clear, actionable legal guidance to business leaders for operations and strategy
- Interpret and apply federal and state banking laws and regulations
- Identify and assess legal risk in business decisions; propose practical solutions
- Support leadership training on key legal topics
- Provide support on credit workouts, collections, litigation, HR, IT, Information Security, and other areas as needed
- Engage with regulators, external counsel, and industry groups for advocacy and external affairs efforts
Key requirements- Bachelor's Degree and Juris Doctor (JD) required
- Active license to practice law in at least one state where the bank operates (ND, MN, SD, or AZ)
- Prior experience in banking law, financial services, or in-house corporate counsel preferred
- Strong judgment balancing legal risk with business objectives
- Effective communicator translating complex legal concepts into practical guidance
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work across diverse business units
- effective communicator
- strong judgment
- ability to balance risk and business objectives
- contract review and negotiation
- regulatory interpretation of federal and state banking laws
- risk assessment and mitigation
