Legal Counsel
Xsolla is a global video game commerce company providing payment processing, merchant-of-record services, monetization, publishing, distribution, fraud prevention, tax management, and direct-to-consumer tools. Its primary clients are video game developers, publishers, payment providers, creators, and players.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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About Xsolla
Xsolla provides tools and services for launching, promoting, selling, and monetizing video games across mobile, PC, web, and other platforms. Its offerings include global payments, Pay Station, Web Shop, Buy Button, SDKs, APIs, authentication, subscriptions, virtual goods, game keys, game distribution, cloud gaming, anti-fraud, tax compliance, player support, analytics, LiveOps, creator campaigns, loyalty, rewards, and publishing tools. Xsolla serves game developers and publishers worldwide, as well as payment providers and gamers.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You'll join Xsolla as an experienced lawyer, creating legal documents for new business strategies and applying legal techniques related to implementing new business ideas. You will advise the business on the legal issues and implications of potential business decisions, initiatives, and payment strategies, providing strategic legal solutions for general business and legal matters. You'll stay current on laws and regulations around payment services and digital innovation, including cryptocurrencies, blockchain, NFTs, and decentralized finance. You'll identify, summarize, and analyze the impact of new and proposed rules and regulations on business decisions and current strategies. You'll draft, review, and negotiate contracts and other documentation supporting new business ideas, and work closely with business and technology teams to help them develop compelling product and service offerings. You'll manage multiple priorities, meet tight deadlines, and provide other legal services and advice to the company as needed.
Requirements
- English language (for non-US candidates) (Advanced/C1 or higher)
- Minimum 5 years legal experience
- Comfortable working with modern collaboration tools including Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence), Slack, Figma, and similar platforms; able to adapt quickly to new tools as needed
- Knowledge of general corporate law, financial services law and regulation (incl. e-money institution (EMI) and payment institution (PI) licensing, PSD2, AMLD/AML-CFT regulations, and GDPR)
- Excellent legal research, oral and written communication skills
- Able to work independently as well as collaboratively, spot issues, prioritize, and multi-task effectively in a fast-paced environment
- Interest in decentralized finance (DeFi), cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, including familiarity with MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation) and an eagerness to learn more about the industry
Responsibilities
- Consult business on the legal issues and implications of potential business decisions, initiatives and payment strategies, providing legal advice strategies and solutions for general business and legal issues
- Maintain current knowledge on laws and regulations around payment services and digital innovation such as cryptocurrencies, blockchain, NFT and decentralized finance (DeFi), including PSD2, EMI/PI licensing, AMLD/AML-CFT, MiCA, and other applicable national regimes
- Identify, summarize, and analyze the impact of new and proposed applicable rules and regulations to business decisions and current strategies
- Draft, review, and negotiate contracts and other documentation for new business ideas
- Work closely with business and technology teams to understand and achieve key business objectives and help them develop compelling product and service offerings
- Manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines
- Provide other legal services and advice to the company as needed
Benefits
- Unlimited Flexible Time Off
- Statutory pension contribution
- Personalized career roadmap
