Senior Counsel - Product (UK & EU)

The role

The Senior Counsel (Consumer Legal) will partner with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to shape and ship consumer products. This includes crypto trading, earn, payments, on-chain integrations, equities, and tokenised equities.

What you will do

• Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to shape and ship novel consumer products and experiences
• Distill complex legal and regulatory issues into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyers and product stakeholders
• Provide a useful range of options and clear recommendations to decision-makers

Required qualifications

• Qualified lawyer (Solicitor of England & Wales, Irish Solicitor, or equivalent admitted in an EU Member State)
• 5+ years’ PQE in financial services law gained at a regulated financial services firm, crypto services provider, or in private practice
• Outstanding analytical, drafting, and organisational skills
• Crisp, plain-English writing
• Ability to efficiently and confidently distill complex legal and regulatory issues into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyers and product stakeholders
• Pragmatic, commercially accountable approach to legal and regulatory risk
• Authentic passion for crypto
• Familiarity with the features of both Kraken and its competitors’ apps and products

Nice to have

• Experience with advising on regulated MiFID investment services
• Familiarity with relevant crypto-asset regimes, including MiCA, AMLD5, UK financial promotions, and/or e-money regulations
• Expertise in MiCA framework applicable to CASPs including brokerage, custody and the operation of trading platforms
• Expertise in UK crypto-asset financial promotions regime and proposals for incoming authorisation regime for regulating crypto asset service providers
• Expertise in MiFID frameworks applicable to investment services including derivatives, equities, funds and emerging tokenised financial instruments
• Familiarity with using AI tools such as Enterprise GPTs

Before you apply

• Applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution
• We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process

About the company

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks. Kraken is a crypto platform trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions.