Member of Legal, Brokerage and Trading Solutions

Anchorage Digital

10d • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a proactive Legal Counsel with a builder’s mindset to join our Trading Solutions team as an integral partner in bringing new products and features to the institutional market. You will be embedded directly from product discovery through launch, providing strategic legal guidance, conducting critical research, establishing policies, and ensuring full regulatory compliance across market infrastructure such as crypto trading venues, prime brokers, custodians, and payment rails. In this role, you will lead the structuring, drafting, and negotiation of key counterparty agreements, including electronic trading, derivatives, and financing arrangements, while coordinating across internal teams and managing external counsel. Beyond transaction execution, you will serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, delivering strategic counsel on complex regulatory frameworks, reputational risks, and ongoing compliance obligations.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of the laws and regulation applicable to spot, margin, derivatives, platform trading and prime brokerage for digital assets.
• Able to create, draft, negotiate a wide range of agreements, including digital asset trading agreements, prime brokerage agreements, collateral agreements, margin agreements, loan agreements, settlement terms, ISDAs, confirmations, master confirmations, disclosures, risk factors and more.
• Strong understanding of various market infrastructure, including direct knowledge on crypto trading venues, prime brokers, custodians, and payments rails.
• Highly organized with a bias for action, meticulous attention to detail and ability to produce quality work in a fast paced, high volume work environment.
• Understanding of the regulatory frameworks, existing and proposed, that pertain to various digital assets business models.
• Ability to apply traditional financial legal concepts to the digital asset space to solution for institutional clients’ complex business needs.
• 8+ years of transactional experience in reviewing various financial transaction agreements, primarily, lending agreements, prime brokerage agreements, ISDA/CSA and trade confirmations.
• Experienced working in a face paced start up / early stage company - Highly motivated, self starter who takes initiative, with a positive attitude and willingness to take on any task (nothing is too big or too small).
• Can think creatively and propose commercial and pragmatic solutions.
• JD preferred

Nice To Haves

• Emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic legal guidance from product discovery through launch.
• Conduct critical research.
• Establish policies.
• Ensure full regulatory compliance across market infrastructure such as crypto trading venues, prime brokers, custodians, and payment rails.
• Lead the structuring, drafting, and negotiation of key counterparty agreements, including electronic trading, derivatives, and financing arrangements.
• Coordinate across internal teams and manage external counsel.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership.
• Deliver strategic counsel on complex regulatory frameworks, reputational risks, and ongoing compliance obligations.
• Develop and manage contract templates.
• Partner with Compliance to develop guidelines, policies and procedures playbooks and staff training.
• Drive work independently while leading medium-to-large projects and processes.
• Convey relevant legal issues to internal stakeholders to ensure that knowledge is shared across the appropriate teams.
• Prioritize work based on company’s goals and communicate the ‘why’ behind your work.
• Build a close relationship with the trading solutions team, legal and compliance team to collaborate closely, resolve legal issues, structure complex agreements, and improve efficiency.
• Be client facing while working with cross-functional team on multiple projects internally.

Benefits

• In-person onboarding process

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree