Opportunity
- Global product counsel for Kraken products, including Listings, Onchain, and Embed
- Provide endβtoβend advice across ideation, development, marketing, launch, and lifecycle changes
- DRI for the Listings, Onchain, Embed, Desktop and Breakout product, development, and engineer sub-pods
- Marketing and promotions review for these products/pods across the US/UK/EU
- Regulatory perimeter analysis relevant regimes postβlicensing, determining which features require additional permissions, disclosures, or structuring
- Stakeholder enablement β draft playbooks, templates, and risk assessments to accelerate compliant shipping
- Advise and write regulatory analyses on regulatory implications in US, EU, UK of onchain products
- Support product ideation and design, review output from token listings GPT, and confirm accuracy to provide final legal seal of approval (with the background of all relevant compliance frameworks: Bitlicense, US securities and MiCA)
Skills you should HODL
- 10+ years of relevant experience applying financial regulations (including MiFID), whether at a law firm or in-house
- Detailed knowledge of MiCA
- Mindset that is team-oriented, plus proactive and entrepreneurial: an opportunity-making person who uses the law to increase the companyβs optionality, not decrease it
- Interest in the crypto industry / what our company is offering to the world and why
Nice to haves
- A tech-forward lawyer with experience and enthusiasm for using LLMs to increase efficiency, create new frameworks, know-how libraries and custom GPTs
- Experience advising the Regulatory function of a fast-growing FinTech or crypto business as in-house counsel
- Experience or knowledge of MiFID
- Prior experience supporting product launches from inception of an idea to launch in multiple countries simultaneously
