General Counsel
Paxos Labs provides enterprise infrastructure for platform-native onchain financial products. Its solutions help platforms issue branded stablecoins, move stablecoins across chains, and activate yield on digital asset balances.
Maintainer signals as of 8/10/2026
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About Paxos Labs
Paxos Labs offers a configurable, compliance-focused stack for embedding digital asset utility and monetization into platforms. Its products include Mint for issuing and managing branded stablecoins, Transit for stablecoin conversion and cross-chain movement with automated routing and compliance screening, and Earn for yield programs on stablecoin balances through DeFi strategies or institutional lending. Paxos Labs also presents USDG0 as a flagship stablecoin fully backed by USDG, a regulated asset issued by Paxos. The organization serves enterprise platforms, users, treasuries, institutional counterparties, integrating wallets, and partners.
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About the Role
You will establish and lead the legal and regulatory function for digital asset products. You will develop regulatory positions, negotiate commercial agreements, manage corporate governance and compliance programs, and advise directly in commercial negotiations. You will also handle employment, intellectual property, privacy, and general corporate matters.
Requirements
- Hold a JD from an accredited law school and active bar admission in good standing in at least one United States jurisdiction.
- Have 8 to 12 years of legal practice, ideally including top-tier law firm and in-house digital asset or fintech experience.
- Demonstrate digital asset regulatory expertise in token classification, distribution structures, and licensing.
- Have transactional experience in secured lending or structured finance.
- Have experience with offshore structures and multijurisdictional coverage.
- Understand digital asset product functions and smart contract architecture conceptually.
- Be comfortable operating without a legal team and building one as the company scales.
Responsibilities
- Own legal and regulatory strategy across stablecoin earn, stablecoin orchestration, tokenized commodities, and lending.
- Draft, negotiate, and close commercial agreements.
- Lead regulatory analysis and develop positions on securities, commodities, money transmission, and virtual asset service providers.
- Manage corporate structure, entity formation and maintenance, board governance, intercompany arrangements, cap table matters, and financing documentation.
- Own AML and sanctions programs, KYB and counterparty onboarding, due diligence responses, and institutional-counterparty policies.
- Represent the legal perspective directly in commercial negotiations with counterparties.
- Handle employment, intellectual property, privacy, and general corporate matters.
