Global Regulatory Legal Lead

About the role

This senior role involves leading Binance's global regulatory legal team, providing strategic legal guidance, and ensuring compliance across all operational regions. The position requires developing and refining global regulatory legal strategies, managing legal risks, and overseeing all necessary regulatory filings, licenses, and approvals. Success in this role means proactively navigating complex regulatory landscapes and maintaining Binance's operational integrity worldwide.

A key part of this position is acting as the main legal contact for regulatory authorities globally. This involves building and maintaining strong relationships, facilitating dialogue, and advancing the company's regulatory interests. The role also includes providing expert legal advice on regulatory matters affecting products and services, and coordinating responses to regulatory inquiries, investigations, and audits.

The Global Regulatory Legal Lead will collaborate with internal teams such as compliance, risk, business development, and product to integrate regulatory considerations into business processes and new product launches. This also includes managing relationships with external legal counsel and developing internal training programs to enhance regulatory compliance awareness across the organization.

The listed salary range for this full-time senior remote role is between $98,000 and $162,000 USD.

Skills that matter here

• Legal Compliance: This role is central to ensuring Binance's adherence to diverse regulatory regimes globally.
• Cryptocurrency Regulation: A deep understanding of the global regulatory landscape for digital assets is essential for strategic guidance.
• Legal Risk Management: The position involves proactively identifying and mitigating legal risks across all operations.
• Stakeholder Management: Building and maintaining relationships with regulatory authorities, business leaders, and external counsel is a core responsibility.
• International Regulation: The role requires expertise in navigating and complying with varied regulatory frameworks across multiple jurisdictions.
• Team Leadership: This position involves leading and managing a global legal team, including operational functions like budgeting and performance.

Who this role suits

• A person with over 15 years of experience in regulatory legal roles, particularly in financial services or cryptocurrency.
• Someone who can effectively lead and manage legal teams across multiple regions.
• An individual who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and can manage multiple priorities.
• A professional with strong communication and negotiation skills, capable of building trusted relationships with regulators and business leaders.

From the employer

• Lead and manage Binance’s global regulatory legal team, providing strategic legal expertise and direction to address complex regulatory challenges across all regions.
• Develop, implement, and continuously refine Binance’s global regulatory legal strategy to ensure compliance with diverse regulatory regimes and to proactively manage legal risks.
• Act as the primary legal liaison with regulatory authorities worldwide, building and maintaining strong relationships to facilitate constructive dialogue and advance Binance’s regulatory interests.
• Oversee the preparation, submission, and management of regulatory filings, licenses, permits, and approvals required for Binance’s operations in multiple jurisdictions.
• Provide expert legal advice on a broad range of regulatory matters affecting Binance’s products, services, and business operations globally.
• Monitor and interpret regulatory developments across key markets, anticipate potential legal impacts, and advise senior management on necessary compliance measures and strategic legal responses.
• Coordinate and lead legal responses to regulatory inquiries, investigations, audits, and enforcement actions worldwide, ensuring timely and effective resolution.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including compliance, risk, business development, and product to embed regulatory legal considerations into global business processes and product launches.
• Drive the development and delivery of regulatory legal training and awareness programs for internal stakeholders globally to enhance the regulatory compliance culture across the organization.
• Manage relationships with external legal counsel and consultants globally to support regulatory matters and complex legal issues.
• Oversee the global regulatory legal team’s operational functions, including budgeting, resource allocation, and performance management.

• Qualified to practice law in a leading jurisdiction with significant international regulatory legal experience.
• Minimum of 15 years’ experience in regulatory legal roles, preferably within technology, financial services, or cryptocurrency sectors.
• Proven expertise in managing complex regulatory compliance issues and engaging with regulatory authorities across multiple jurisdictions globally.
• Strong knowledge of global financial products, including spot and derivatives trading, payment systems, and digital assets.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute global regulatory strategies in a fast-evolving and highly regulated environment.
• Experience leading and managing high-performing legal teams across multiple regions.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trusted relationships with regulators, business leaders, and external counsel.
• Deep understanding of the cryptocurrency industry and its regulatory landscape worldwide.
• Exceptional communication and negotiation skills, with fluency in English; additional language skills are a plus.
• Strong business acumen combined with a pragmatic and solutions-oriented approach to regulatory challenges.
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced, and high-pressure environment, managing multiple priorities and deadlines.

• Shape the future with the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem.
• Collaborate with world-class talent in a user-centric global organization with a flat structure.
• Tackle unique, fast-paced projects with autonomy in an innovative environment.
• Thrive in a results-driven workplace with opportunities for career growth and continuous learning.
• Competitive salary and company benefits.
• Work-from-home arrangement (the arrangement may vary depending on the work nature of the business team).