Legal & Compliance Specialist – Auto Retail

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado.

📋 Description

• Monitor federal and state laws, regulations, agency directives, enforcement actions, and key court rulings that impact Automotive Advertising, Sales, and F&I.

• Conduct research and analyze legal and regulatory requirements affecting automotive retailers.

• Assess legal and regulatory changes and offer practical implementation guidance for internal teams and clients.

• Stay informed about state-specific automotive retail laws and consumer protection regulations.

• Develop, improve, and expand KPA's compliance libraries for all 50 states, including regulatory matrices, state summaries, decision trees, reference guides, FAQs, and implementation instructions.

• Standardize compliance methodologies and interpretations across consulting projects.

• Translate intricate legal and regulatory concepts into actionable operational advice.

• Create and enhance client-facing educational resources, compliance alerts, and regulatory communications.

• Assist with advertising review processes and regulatory inquiry operations.

• Improve review checklists, playbooks, examples, and reporting guidelines utilized by ASF consultants.

• Support AI-driven report generation workflows while maintaining professional judgment and editorial scrutiny.

• Analyze recurring compliance issues to bolster consultant guidance, educational materials, and review processes.

• Utilize AI technologies for regulatory research, compliance analysis, report creation, and knowledge management.

• Design AI-assisted prompts, knowledge agents, review workflows, and reporting tools.

• Advance automated advertising review capabilities through legal and regulatory reasoning, state-specific criteria, and AI-enhanced analysis.

• Assess AI-generated compliance analyses and recommendations for legal accuracy, consistency, transparency, and practicality.

• Collaborate with teams across Legal, Consulting, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Learning & Development, Client Success, and Executive Leadership.

• Report directly to the Chief Legal & Strategy Officer and collaborate with the National Sr. Director of ASFI and the Director of Legal Affairs.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience is required.

• Minimum of five years’ experience in automotive retail compliance, dealership operations, consumer protection, regulatory affairs, legal research, compliance consulting, or a related field.

• Strong knowledge of Automotive Advertising, Sales, and F&I.

• Proven ability to research, analyze, and interpret complex legal and regulatory frameworks.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of transforming legal and regulatory concepts into practical business advice.

• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.

• Exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy.

• Proven proficiency in utilizing AI tools to improve research, knowledge management, document creation, or professional workflows.

• Ability to work collaboratively across various business functions.

• Familiarity with federal and state laws regulating automotive retail, including the FTC Act, UDAP/UDAAP principles, TILA, ECOA, FCRA, GLBA, privacy laws, CAN-SPAM, TCPA, and state advertising regulations.

• Experience in maintaining or enhancing compliance guidance, policies, educational materials, regulatory resources, or knowledge-management systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus potential of up to 10% annually.

• Flexible work arrangement with mostly remote options.

• Occasional travel (around 5%) for internal meetings, client engagements, training, and industry conferences.

• Reasonable accommodations may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.