About JustFund
Recent winner of Fintech Australia’s Finnies Award 2025 for “Excellence in Consumer Lending” and recognised in AFR’s Top 5 Fast Starters, JustFund is a mission-led social lender, providing flexible funding to help people access quality legal representation.
JustFund is transforming New Zealand’s personal legal services market with innovative lending solutions that fundamentally change the experience and outcomes for individuals and family law firms. Our offering provides legal funding to individuals who are going through the complex, stressful, and financially challenging process of relationship separation so they can pay their legal fees.
Since launching in New Zealand in May 2025, we’ve already supported over 150 New Zealanders, and formed partnerships with over 130 leading family law firms across the country. And we’re now excited to be launching estate funding.
We’ve already made a meaningful difference—but we’re only scratching the surface of what’s possible. Join us at this critical early stage as we build a seamless and life-changing legal finance platform for our clients and law firm partners.
If you're passionate about purpose, driven by impact, and excited to solve real-world problems through innovation, we’d love to hear from you.
About the Role
The In-House Wills & Estates Lawyer (Client Engagement Manager) will be a new role, the first of its kind within New Zealand to specialise within estates litigation and administration. It will be responsible for helping develop and grow the new business line, to help manage the client and law firm application experience, and to assess applications to determine whether they are eligible for funding. This role is critical to JustFund’s growth.
For an organisation that puts clients and law firms at the centre of all we do, this role of Client Engagement Manager is critical.
Your responsibilities will include:
Utilising your estates litigation and administration skills to assess applications from executors and law firms to ensure the estate is solvent and has the resources to clear its debts and distribute to the beneficiaries under the Will;
Helping build and refine our credit policy, lending criteria and applications journey so that it is relevant within the estates market nationally;
Identifying risks in relation to applications for funding, and create ways to help mitigate those risks;
Developing and maintaining deep relationships with law firm partners to ensure their experience is positive, and that we are as responsive and supportive as possible;
Embracing our culture and living our service values to deliver an outstanding experience for each and every client and law firm partner;
Serving as an amazing, empathetic and ongoing point of contact for our clients;
Analysing the outcome of funded cases to improve and refine JustFund’s credit assessment processes;
Being willing to help out with the highest impact projects each week because we’re a fast growing fintech and that’s what it’s all about.
About You
As a fast growing fintech, the playbook hasn’t been fully written yet. Whilst this might be daunting to some, you realise that the impact you can have, and the scope for personal and professional development is incredible.
You have a bias towards action, being super responsive and you gain satisfaction from pleasing others. You aren’t phased by ambiguity or working solo or in small teams to get the job done. You like the thrill of creating and having an immediate impact on a business.
Your personal attributes:
Estates litigation and administration Experience. You have 5+ years of experience in a fast-paced wills & estates practice.
Commercial mindset. You can blend your legal experience with a practical and commercial perspective.
Results-driven. You like a sense of getting things done.
Client-centric. Making others happy and surpassing expectations is your thing.
Proactive. You come up with ideas and are happy to jump in.
Creative: You like to solve problems and look at new ways of doing things.
Teamwork. Collaboration and achieving success with others gives you satisfaction.
Flexible. You understand, and are excited by, the need to be adaptable in a fast moving, young business.
Willing to do whatever is needed to support the business - nothing is beneath or above you.
Outgoing. You like to engage with your peers inside the business and within the legal industry to work together, solve problems and be an advocate for our service.
Why join JustFund?
We’re a purpose-driven Fintech genuinely and impactfully improving the lives of Australians, New Zealanders and the law firms that support them.
Opportunity to get into a values-based business early and grow with it.
Deliver meaningful impact to our clients and partners.
Continued CPD training.
A competitive salary and share options package.
Five weeks of leave per year.
Working with JustFund offers a unique opportunity to be an estates lawyer outside of private practice or the government sector. We affectionately refer to the family lawyers in our team as in-house counsel. You will be the same. There are no billable budgets or hours to meet - we simply ask that you work with the passion and drive you would apply to private practice, as we are serving the same group of people in need.
Office-First Culture
While we understand that location is important, our company culture is even more important. We have a strong preference for the successful candidate to be present in our Auckland CBD office. We want the right candidate to be a part of the collaborating, brainstorming, serendipity and laughs that occur each and every day. Preference will be given to individuals who can add most positively to, and are aligned with, our culture. A willingness to be present for as many days as possible each week is a distinct advantage. Extraordinary remote workers may be assessed by exception.