Senior Counsel - Product (UK & EU)
Job description
Senior Counsel (Consumer Legal) role at Kraken, based in the UK or EU, partnering with Product, Design, and Engineering teams on consumer crypto products including trading, earn, payments, on-chain integrations, equities, and tokenised equities. Reports to the Head of Consumer Legal.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Partner shoulder-to-shoulder with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to shape and ship novel consumer products and experiences
- Advise on cutting edge consumer products including crypto trading, earn, payments, on-chain integrations, equities, and tokenised equities
- Provide stakeholders with a useful range of options and deliver clear recommendations to decision-makers
What we're looking for
- 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 (ideally with direct product counselling experience)
- Preference for experience with advising on regulated MiFID investment services and familiarity with relevant crypto-asset regimes, including MiCA, AMLD5, UK financial promotions, and/or e-money regulations
- Outstanding analytical, drafting, and organisational skills with 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 that prioritises providing stakeholders with a useful range of options and delivers clear recommendations to decision-makers
- Demonstrates an authentic passion for crypto and familiarity with the features of both Kraken and its competitors' apps and products
Nice to have
- 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 to increase efficient provision of legal services, create custom GPTs allowing stakeholders to self-serve on commoditised legal and regulatory queries
Your team
Product Legal
A growing team of 10, embedded with Kraken's Product, Design, and Engineering teams to ship novel products and experiences that accelerate the global adoption of crypto. A tight, experienced group of product lawyers from a diverse range of tradfi, fintech, and crypto backgrounds who move fast, stay curious, and take pride in the commercial accountability of their advice.
How to get hired
- 1We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process
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About Kraken
Building the Future of Open Finance
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
Mission
To advance an open, global financial system
Key facts
- 2011
- Crypto / financial infrastructure
- Founded in 2011
- Trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe
- Offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services
- Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks
- Payward has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry
What they value
- Move fast
- Stay curious
- Commercial accountability of advice