General Counsel
On-siteNew York, United States
Job Summary
Own legal and regulatory strategy across the full product line, including stablecoin earn, orchestration, tokenized commodities, and lending. Draft, negotiate, and close every commercial agreement while leading regulatory analysis to produce defensible characterizations for securities, commodities, money transmission, and virtual asset service provider positioning. Manage entity formation, board governance, and the compliance stack covering AML, sanctions, and counterparty onboarding. Serve as the legal voice in commercial negotiations with direct counterparties and handle employment, IP, and privacy matters. This role establishes the legal function from the ground up for Paxos Labs, which builds enterprise infrastructure for trusted onchain financial products.
Required Qualifications
- JD from an accredited law school
- active bar admission
- good standing in at least one US jurisdiction
- 8 to 12 years of practice
- top-tier law firm foundation
- in-house experience at a digital asset or fintech company
- demonstrated digital asset regulatory expertise
- positions on token classification
- distribution structures
- licensing questions
- defended them to counterparties, auditors, and regulators
- Transactional depth in secured lending or structured finance
- papered facilities
- thought carefully about perfection and enforceability
- Experience working with offshore structures
- juggling multijurisdictional coverage
- Working fluency in how digital asset products actually function
- understand smart contract architecture at a conceptual level
- understand what a vault, an oracle, or a liquidation mechanism does
Desired Qualifications
- interest in building one as the company scales
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