Role in brief
Crypto is hiring a Legal Counsel in Malta to provide regulatory advice for its European products and services. This role involves mitigating legal risks, drafting user agreements, and collaborating with internal teams and external regulators. Candidates with 2-4 years of experience in banking, payments, or FinTech law, who enjoy navigating complex regulatory environments, should consider applying.
About the role
This Legal Counsel role at Crypto focuses on delivering proactive legal and regulatory guidance for the development and launch of the company's products and services in Europe. The position requires working closely with various internal stakeholders to ensure compliance with obligations while meeting user needs. A key aspect of the work involves identifying and mitigating legal and regulatory risks associated with new product introductions, while also maximizing commercial opportunities.
The successful candidate will contribute to the ongoing development of the regulatory advisory function within the global legal team. Responsibilities include representing the company before regulators, financial partners, and users, as well as reviewing and drafting user agreements and other external terms. This role also involves collaborating with Risk, Compliance, and Privacy teams to assess applicable regulations and establish company standards, and reviewing marketing content.
The position requires managing external counsels when necessary and providing guidance on product design, modification, and geographical expansion. The ideal person will be comfortable interpreting and applying law in evolving contexts, demonstrating strong interpersonal and organizational skills to provide sound legal advice and exercise good business judgment with senior management and cross-functional teams.
The salary for this position ranges from $112,000 to $188,000 USD, reflecting a competitive compensation for a middle-seniority legal role.
Skills that matter here
- Regulatory advice: This role will provide legal and regulatory advice to internal stakeholders to enable product development and launch in Europe.
- Payments law: Experience in payments law is a key requirement for understanding the regulatory landscape relevant to Crypto's services.
- Compliance: The role involves working with compliance teams to assess regulations and set company standards.
- Cross-functional collaboration: This position requires working with multiple internal teams to identify and mitigate legal and regulatory risks.
- User agreements: The counsel will be responsible for reviewing, updating, and drafting user agreements and other external terms.
- Financial services regulations: Understanding financial services regulations is crucial for providing legal guidance in the financial innovation space.
Who this role suits
- A person who has around 2-4 years of experience practicing law, either in-house or at a reputable firm, with a focus on banking, payments, or FinTech law.
- Someone who is passionate about financial innovation and enjoys working collaboratively to solve complex legal problems.
- An individual who can interpret and apply law in evolving contexts and manage multiple assignments with conflicting priorities.
- A professional with strong interpersonal and organizational skills, capable of providing sound legal advice and exercising good business judgment.
From the employer
- Provide proactive and solution-oriented legal and regulatory advice and guidance to multiple stakeholders within the Group in order to enable the development and launch of Crypto products and services in a way that meets our obligations as well as the needs of our users
- Work cross-functionally to identify, analyze and mitigate legal and regulatory risks (while maximizing commercial opportunities) related to the introduction of new products and services in Europe
- Participate in the ongoing development of the regulatory advisory function
- Represent Crypto.com on a variety of topics before regulators, financial partners, users and other external audiences
- Review, update and draft user agreements, and other external facing terms and conditions, leveraging external advisors and providers where appropriate
- Work with Risk, Compliance and Privacy teams across our global organization to assess applicable regulations and set corresponding company standards
- Review and advise on the development of external facing marketing and user content and user experiences
- Select and manage external counsels, as appropriate
- Around 2-4 years of post-qualification experience practicing either in-house (or in an equivalent setting) or at a reputable law firm, with at least 2 years of those years focused on either banking law, payments law, the FinTech space, or financial services in an international or cross-border environment
- Ability to provide legal and regulatory guidance on the design, modification, and geographical expansion of products
- Comfortable with interpreting and applying the law in unsettled contexts
- Strong interpersonal and organizational skills and a demonstrated ability to provide sound legal advice, exercise good business judgment, and work well with senior management and cross functional stakeholders effectively and proactively
- Ability to handle multiple assignments simultaneously, with effective resolution of conflicting priorities, and willingness to use innovative solutions to scale your legal advice
- Prior product legal experience in the technology or financial services space and/or working with strategic partners to launch joint product experiences recommended, but not required
Questions about this role
What is the seniority level for this position?
This is a middle-seniority role.
What is the expected salary range for this position?
The salary for this role ranges from $112,000 to $188,000 USD.
Is prior product legal experience required?
Prior product legal experience in technology or financial services is recommended but not required for this role.