General Counsel
Institutional-grade infrastructure for embedded on-chain financial products, including branded stablecoin issuance, stablecoin movement, and yield activation.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Paxos Labs
Paxos Labs provides enterprise infrastructure that enables fintechs, enterprises, and crypto-native teams to build, launch, and scale embedded on-chain financial products. Its current platform supports branded stablecoin issuance through Mint, stablecoin orchestration across networks through Transit, and yield activation on stablecoin balances through Earn, with compliance, reserve, routing, monitoring, and configurable program controls.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
The General Counsel will establish and lead Paxos Labs' legal and regulatory function, covering digital asset products, commercial contracting, corporate governance, compliance, 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 positioning for 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.
Benefits
- Opportunity to build the legal and compliance organization from the ground up.
- Work on impactful digital asset and financial infrastructure projects.
- Continuous learning and professional development.
- Competitive compensation and participation in ownership structures.
- Fast-paced, collaborative work environment.