Assistant General Counsel, Kraken
Product
$195-323k
Offers Bonus & Equity
Cryptocurrency exchange
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Cryptocurrency exchange
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$195-323k
Offers Bonus & Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.
Role
Who you are
- 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 company’s optionality, not decrease it
- Interest in the crypto industry / what our company is offering to the world and why
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- Join our growing Product Legal team of 10, embedded with Kraken’s Product, Design, and Engineering teams to ship novel products and experiences that accelerate the global adoption of crypto
- We’re a tight, experienced group of product lawyers from a diverse range of tradfi, fintech, and crypto backgrounds who move fast, stay curious, and take pride in the commercial accountability of our advice - partnering directly with product teams to chart clear, defensible paths to launch
- This is a fully remote role for a lawyer licensed to practice in the United States or a qualified solicitor in the UK or admitted in an EU jurisdiction
- Global product counsel for Kraken products, including Listings, Onchain, and Embed
- Provide end‑to‑end 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 post‑licensing, determining which features require additional permissions, disclosures, or structuring
- Stakeholder enablement – 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 and MiCA)
Our take
Kraken is the world’s largest global bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity. Kraken’s clients also trade USD, CAD, ETH, XRP, LTC and other digital currencies, on a platform consistently rated the best and most secure bitcoin exchange by independent news media.
Kraken was the first bitcoin exchange to have its market data displayed on the Bloomberg Terminal, the first to pass a cryptographically verifiable proof-of-reserves audit, and one of the first exchanges to offer leveraged bitcoin margin trading.
Kraken are one of the top 3 bitcoin exchanges by volume, behind Coinbase and bit-x with an 18% market share. While this is a competitive space to operate in - the volume of crypto being exchanged every day is very high, so there's space for multiple winners.
Kraken have made a number of acquisitions and have strengthened its world-leading position with the launch of new products, features and apps and a 24/7 multi-lingual support line. The company will continue to provide clients with easier and more versatile ways to participate in the crypto ecosystem.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2019
$100m
SERIES C
Mar 2014
$5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $111.5m
Company benefits
- Work where you want: 90% of Krakenites work remotely, we believe people do their best work wherever they're happiest
- Flexibility and Autonomy: We are highly results-focused vs. time-focused. We want you to work when and how you need to keep you at your most proactive
- We value diversity: Our Team is spread across 60 countries. By joining Kraken you'll be part of a truly multicultural organization that values diversity and inclusion
- A new approach to salary: Kraken prides itself on being at the forefront of crypto innovation, and that means the majority of our workforce has the option to be paid in bitcoin
- Equity Options: Kraken owes its success and growth to its people. That's why we offer nearly all our Krakenites a stake in the company
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jesse Powell
(Chairman of the Board)Previously co-founded Verge Gallery & Studio Project, Lewt and Internet Ventures & Holdings
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