Senior Legal Counsel Global/Remote

Overview

A global organization operating in crypto, web3, fintech, and payments is seeking a qualified lawyer with strong regulatory judgment and practical product sense. This role involves advising on product design, structuring, and launch while ensuring compliance with evolving regulatory frameworks across multiple jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Advise product and business teams on new product and feature design, balancing commercial objectives with regulatory requirements.
• Assess regulatory fit for crypto and web3 products, identifying licensing, registration, or structural needs.
• Provide clear regulatory analysis on token classification, financial products, derivatives, and DeFi, translating complex issues into practical business guidance.
• Lead and support license applications, including preparing submissions, responding to regulators, and monitoring compliance obligations.
• Monitor regulatory developments in crypto, web3, fintech, and payments, and provide actionable guidance.
• Identify legal and regulatory risks early and offer strategic advice to stakeholders.
• Integrate compliance considerations such as AML, KYC, sanctions, and travel rule into product design.
• Review marketing and customer-facing materials for regulatory compliance.
• Advise on paid placement, sponsorship, advertising, and disclosure requirements.
• Address conflicts of interest and maintain independence and disclosure standards.
• Support ongoing regulatory compliance and coordinate with local counsel on multi-jurisdictional issues.
• Draft and negotiate commercial contracts, providing risk assessments and practical recommendations.
• Respond to inquiries from internal teams, external parties, and regulators.
• Develop scalable internal guidance, playbooks, and processes to enable rapid yet compliant business operations.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer with 4 to 7 years post-qualification experience, ideally in-house, with direct advisory experience in crypto or web3 businesses.
• Strong working knowledge of regulatory frameworks applicable to crypto, web3, fintech, or financial services, with practical application to products.
• Familiarity with financial promotions, advertising, and marketing regulations related to financial or crypto products, including paid placement, sponsorship, and disclosure.
• Understanding of regulation around trading, brokerage, or market infrastructure activities and ability to identify regulated activities.
• Experience across regulatory, licensing, product, and commercial legal work.
• Comfortable working across multiple jurisdictions and quickly learning unfamiliar regulatory regimes, with support from local counsel.
• Ability to work independently under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, capable of explaining regulatory issues to non-lawyers and collaborating with global teams.
• Practical, solution-oriented mindset with initiative to identify issues early and propose workable solutions.
• Strong organizational skills to manage competing priorities and multiple matters simultaneously.
• Fluency in English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with licensing or registration for crypto, payments, or financial services providers (e.g., VASP or other crypto-asset service provider regimes).
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks across multiple regions such as MiCA, UK, US, APAC, EMEA, or LATAM.
• Working knowledge of AML, KYC, sanctions, consumer protection, and data protection rules as they apply to financial and crypto products.
• Experience engaging directly with regulators.
• Proficiency in Chinese is a plus; other languages are also welcome.
• Awareness of regulatory issues related to AI use in financial or crypto products is a bonus but not required.

Location

This role involves working across multiple jurisdictions globally.

Compensation & Benefits

Details on compensation and benefits are not specified in the job description.