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Senior Counsel – Product
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
7 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Counsel – Product
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
• Own cross‑functional product counseling across the build cycle (discovery → design → launch → iteration), delivering crisp, actionable guidance and risk‑based options to product, engineering, compliance, and leadership. • Translate complex regulatory frameworks (with a focus on MiFID, EMIR, derivatives, and market structure) into pragmatic controls and go‑to‑market guardrails. • Draft and negotiate client terms and conditions with clear, business‑aligned positions. • Lead licensing/registration workstreams: scope requirements, map pathways, coordinate outside counsel, compile application materials, and manage regulator interactions. • Support incident and supervisory responses with well‑reasoned written submissions and evidence packages. • Foster a culture of clarity, favoring plain‑English communication, measurable risk tradeoffs, and decision‑ready recommendations.
Job Requirements
- Qualified lawyer (Solicitor/Barrister of England & Wales, Irish Solicitor/Barrister, or equivalent admitted in an EU Member State).
- 10+ years’ PQE in financial services law within a regulated financial services institution (e.g., an exchange, central clearing counterparty, broker-dealer/asset manager, trading firm, bank, brokerage, or crypto services provider) or in a law firm/private practice supporting such clients (ideally with some in-house or direct product counseling experience).
- Experience with advising on regulated MiFID investment services and familiarity with relevant crypto-asset regimes, including MiCA, AMLD5, UK financial promotions, and/or e-money regulations.
- Demonstrated experience leading licensing or registration efforts, including planning, applications, regulator engagement, and operationalization.
- Outstanding analytical, drafting, and organisational skills with crisp, plain-English writing.
- Ability to efficiently and confidently distill complex legal and regulatory issues into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyers and product stakeholders.
- Pragmatic, commercially accountable approach to legal and regulatory risk that prioritises providing stakeholders with a useful range of options and delivers clear recommendations to decision-makers.
- Demonstrates an authentic passion for crypto and familiarity with the features of both Kraken and its competitors’ apps and products.
Benefits
- Fully remote role
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