Overview
This role involves serving as a commercial attorney responsible for negotiating vendor agreements critical to operations and managing a variety of financial agreements. The position requires intellectual curiosity to support the development of new business lines within a digital asset platform serving institutional clients.
Responsibilities
- Own vendor contracts and third-party risk management from a legal perspective.
- Draft and negotiate a wide range of commercial, custody, and brokerage/trading contracts, including master services agreements, NDAs, vendor agreements, partnership agreements, and intercompany agreements.
- Negotiate external client agreements such as custody, brokerage, or trading agreements.
- Collaborate closely with the Third Party Risk Management team to develop the company’s contract management framework, guidelines, and playbooks.
- Lead medium-to-large projects and processes independently, breaking larger projects into smaller tasks.
- Function as a prolific individual contributor within the corporate and commercial legal space.
- Share knowledge across appropriate teams as negotiations progress.
- Prioritize work based on company goals and communicate the rationale behind legal work.
- Build close relationships with sales, product, engineering, operations, and other teams to identify and resolve legal issues, structure complex agreements, and improve efficiency.
- Maintain strong communication skills internally and externally, including client-facing interactions.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree with a focus on financial services or corporate law.
- Minimum of 4 years of experience drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial and vendor contracts.
- Experience negotiating brokerage or other trading-related agreements is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with business and cross-functional teams to resolve complex issues and strategize growth.
- Enthusiasm for cryptocurrency and foundational understanding of the crypto industry and applicable laws and regulations in the U.S. and internationally.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to execute with moderate supervision while balancing commercial and legal considerations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Interest in the founding of new financial systems, exemplified by an appreciation for the "Hamilton" soundtrack (optional).
Compensation & Benefits
Details on compensation and benefits are not provided in this description.
Location
The position requires completion of an in-person onboarding process due to security policies mandating physical identity verification and secure IT setup. This is to protect infrastructure from sophisticated global threats and to support organizational culture. Specific office locations include San Francisco, New York, Porto (Portugal), Singapore, and Sioux Falls (South Dakota), but the exact location for this role is not specified.
Additional Information
The organization is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status. Qualified applicants are considered regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Artificial intelligence tools may be used to support parts of the hiring process, but final hiring decisions are made by humans.