Deputy General Counsel, OKX
Strategic Partnerships & Institutions
$200.4-300.5k
Cryptocurrency trading app
Be an early applicant
Cryptocurrency trading app
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200.4-300.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To take care of our team, promote and advance crypto globally, and empower every individual in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Must hold a law degree and be eligible to practice as an advocate
- Senior lawyer with at least 10+ years experience working at a law firm, digital assets firm or a top tier financial institution
- Proven track record at a top-tier law firm or in-house role at a top financial institution, with experience in the digital assets sector
- Meaningful, deal-level exposure to strategic partnerships including cooperation agreements and incentive agreements. Must have flexibility to work on various commercial and transactional deals
- Experience drafting playbooks and fallbacks guide is a plus
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, multicultural, and growth-oriented environment
- Well-organized, detail-oriented, works well under pressure and able to cope with tight deadlines
- Excellent drafting and communication skills
- Strong skills in building trust and providing effective legal advice to business teams, with the capability to navigate rapidly evolving legal landscapes
- A highly collaborative team member who is comfortable within a high-functioning multicultural legal department
What the job involves
- The Global Legal team provides legal advice and guidance to OKX and its affiliated entities across all coverage areas and geographic locations, and supports business growth by working with all teams within the company to help them achieve their goals
- Our team has attorneys around the world, and handles legal matters in literally hundreds of countries across the globe
- The Strategic Partnerships and Institutions legal team is looking to add a commercially savvy senior lawyer as Deputy General Counsel to our practice group with a primary focus on covering strategic partnerships
- . You will play a key role in our Global Legal team, actively supporting our global institutional and trading businesses, as well as our Peer-to-Peer (P2P) platform
- OKX's strategic partnerships business is one of the fastest-growing segments of our global platform, forging commercial partnerships that align with OKX strategic priorities
- As Deputy General Counsel, Strategic Partnerships and Institutions, you will serve as legal advisor for one of OKX’s most strategically important business lines: our strategic partnership ecosystem
- This is not a reactive, gatekeeping role. We are looking for a commercially-minded lawyer who leans in, shapes strategy, takes ownership, and thrives in a fast-moving environment where legal frameworks are still taking shape alongside the industry itself
- Serve as an attorney on all strategic partnerships and trading arrangements, including strategic alliances, partnership agreements, cooperation agreements, incentive agreements, exchange integrations, staking, co-investments, and alliances
- Responsible for drafting, negotiating, and managing high-stakes commercial agreements, joint ventures, and technology alliances to help scale business growth safely
- Advise on complex cross-border transactions, crypto product structuring, and multi-jurisdictional regulatory compliance
- Act as a key legal advisor within the global strategic partnership legal team, focusing on our strategic partnerships, trading, and P2P platforms, and ensuring compliance and robust legal support across these key business areas
- Translate complex legal and regulatory issues into clear, commercially actionable guidance for product, engineering, and executive teams
- Collaborate closely with the product development and business development teams to ensure that new products, services, and business initiatives align with regulatory requirements and advance the company’s strategic goals; and
- Address any additional matters as advised by the legal team leaders, providing flexibility to respond to new challenges and opportunities within the legal landscape
Our take
While cryptocurrency holds the promise of freedom in personal finances and the possibility of large financial rewards through trading, it can be intimidating to get started. OKX, a long-standing crypto currency exchange, exists to solve that problem, removing the knowledge barriers to cryptocurrency trading with an easy-to-use, all in one platform.
OKX is one of the larger cryptocurrency exchanges, though it is a bit smaller than the market leaders Binance and Coinbase Exchange. Where it shines is in the sheer range of its services, which are designed to be versatile enough for any user, ranging from a crypto exchange to NFT and decentralised finance investment products. With a reputation for security and reliability, it has a user base of over 50+ million active accounts in over 180 countries.
OKX is using its structural position in cryptomarkets to help support the entire sector, announcing a market recovery fund to protect crypto firms facing collapse following the FTX crisis. Additionally, it is expanding into Web3 gaming with a 2023 partnership with Thirdverse, further increasing the scope of its offering to its client base. As long as it can continue to weather the tough market conditions for cryptocurrency, it should maintain its excellent position to continue its growth.
Freddie
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Leadership
Star Xu
(Founder & CEO)Previously an Engineer at Yahoo before becoming the Chief Technology Officer at DocIn. They later founded OKX and has recently reclaimed the title of CEO
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