Member of Legal Commercial Counsel, Anchorage Digital
Regulated crypto platform
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Regulated crypto platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help institutions participate securely in digital assets, by setting a new standard for crypto finance.
Role
Who you are
- Experienced in negotiating a variety of complex agreements and has an understanding of transaction management
- Comfort and experience negotiating with opposing outside counsel
- Strong understanding of agreement terms and its impact across different internal teams and the company as a whole
- Have a deep knowledge of the strategy of Anchorage Digital and its various business lines. Actively engage with different groups to work on understanding historical transactions as well as requirements for executing on go-forward global strategy
- Able to communicate complex issues clearly and credibly across a wide range of audiences
- Communicate, organize and execute on cross-team goals and projects, by advising internal teams to solve legal issues during negotiations
- You have a J.D. degree and 3-6 years of experience
- You have a background in drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial and deal documents and are comfortable facing highly-sophisticated institutional clients and counterparties
- You have demonstrated experience working closely with the business and other cross functional teams to build new products, solve complex issues, and strategize growth
- You have enthusiasm for crypto and a foundational understanding of the crypto industry and applicable laws/regulations both in the U.S. and internationally
- You demonstrate close attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects
- You have the ability to execute with moderate supervision and balance commercial and legal realities
Desirable
- You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
What the job involves
- We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Member of Legal, Commercial Counsel role:
- Manage internal and external timeline for agreement turn around time
- Assist in improving existing agreements and implementing changes broadly with various internal teams
- Monitor client agreement workflows and advise as the primary legal counsel for workflows owned by the counsel
Our take
Anchorage is a crypto-native digital asset platform offering a raft of solutions that help companies leverage blockchain technologies. Its advanced security architecture facilitates streamlined access to the complex and fragmented digital asset space.
Financial backing for Anchorage has come from prestigious investors Visa and Andreessen Horowitz. Anchorage's broad offerings are set to be matched by plans to partner across a wide spread of neobanks, challenger & incumbent banks, and corporate treasurers. This would mean an impressive expansion of their already substantial domain of influence in a rapidly developing sector.
In early 2021, Anchorage secured a national trust charter from the OCC, making it the first-ever federally chartered digital asset bank. This is significant, as it provides a good barrier to entry for other companies looking to compete in this space, and gives legacy institutions the ability to offer digital asset access to their clients. Though it has raised considerable funding in the past, crypto instability and wider macroeconomic challenges forced Anchorage to cut 20% of its staff in March 2023. 2022 clampdowns on customer due dilligence internal controllers added to the pressure on Anchorage to streamline and refocus its efforts.
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Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2021
$350m
SERIES D
Feb 2021
$80m
SERIES C
Total funding: $487m
Company benefits
- 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents
- Family comes first: we offer parental and child bonding leave to all new parents
- Meaningful equity - Every team member is a part owner in the company and community that we’re all building together
- We allow employees to work anywhere in the U.S. or Portugal, and have physical workspaces in New York, San Francisco, South Dakota, and Portugal
- Flexible time-off plan - Take time off, guilt-free, so you can recharge when you need to
- 401(k) plan & FSA account
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Diogo Mónica
(Co-Founder & Executive Chairman)Former advisor and board member at Jscrambler and advisor at StackRox with Phd in Computer Science at Instituto Superior Tecnico.
Nathan McCauley
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former director at Vendor Security Alliance and Docker. Former Security Engineering Manager at Square.
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