Assistant General Counsel Product and Regulatory Legal EU
Payward, Inc. is the parent company and operating platform behind Kraken and a portfolio spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, tokenized assets, onchain finance, and benchmarks.
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward operates unified financial infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets, including shared liquidity, risk and margin systems, collateral and settlement, compliance, and licensing. Its first-party portfolio includes Kraken, Kraken Pro, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, CF Benchmarks, Reap, Krak, Kraken Prime, Kraken OTC, Kraken Custody, and Bitnomial.
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About the Role
You will provide senior legal advice on European Union product launches, licensing structures, and regulatory strategy. You will assess products across overlapping financial-services regimes, draft and negotiate terms, oversee outside counsel, lead licensing workstreams, mentor lawyers, and translate regulatory developments into actionable guidance.
Requirements
- Admission as a lawyer in Ireland, England and Wales, or another European Union Member State
- 15+ years of post-qualification experience in financial services regulatory law
- MiFID II
- MiFIR
- MiCA
- European Union payment services regulation
- Electronic money regulation
- European Union banking regulation
- Product classification
- Regulatory perimeter analysis
- Regulator relationship management
- Anti-money laundering
- Counter-terrorist financing
- Outsourcing
- Operational resilience
- DORA
- Outside counsel management
- Legal drafting
- Legal analysis
- Legal risk management
- Lawyer mentoring
- Enterprise GPT
Responsibilities
- Advise on European Union product launches from discovery through iteration
- Assess regulatory classification and perimeter across financial-services regimes
- Advise on payments, electronic money, banking, anti-money-laundering, market-abuse, outsourcing, and operational-resilience requirements
- Monitor European Union legislative and supervisory developments
- Draft and negotiate client-facing terms and conditions
- Manage European Union outside counsel engagements and costs
- Mentor junior lawyers and set standards for legal advice
- Use AI-assisted tools for regulatory analysis, drafting, matter tracking, and self-service tools
- Lead or oversee licensing, authorization, and variation workstreams
Hiring Process
Job-related skills or work-style assessments may be used alongside experience and interviews.
