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About The Position

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school.
• Active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction (Illinois preferred or ability to obtain).
• 7–10+ years of relevant legal experience with regulatory, money services business, digital asset and money transmitter licensing experience.
• Proven experience managing outside counsel and complex regulatory matters.
• Background in financial services, fintech, or other regulated industries.
• Strong legal drafting, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to operate independently while collaborating closely with senior legal leadership.

Nice To Haves

• In-house or government experience involving a money services business, payments company, bank, fintech, cryptocurrency company, or financial regulator.
• Experience with BSA/AML, OFAC, consumer protection, unfair or deceptive acts or practices, privacy, and digital asset regulatory frameworks.
• Experience negotiating resolutions with regulators or advising high-growth, technology-driven companies through regulatory change.
• Basic knowledge of cryptocurrency and blockchains.
• General passion and knowledge of fintech and cryptocurrency.

Responsibilities

• Have primary responsibility for managing CoinFlip’s responses to examinations by state financial regulators, from the initial examination notice and scoping through document productions, interviews, findings, remediation, and closure.
• Serve as a principal legal point of contact for state and federal regulators and represent CoinFlip in examinations, supervisory meetings, interviews, conferences, hearings, and other regulatory engagements.
• Lead legal strategy and response efforts for regulatory inquiries, subpoenas, civil investigative demands, investigations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and settlement negotiations.
• Advise on state money transmitter laws and domestic and international licensing frameworks, including licensing triggers and exemptions, permissible activities, examination standards, reporting obligations, and the regulatory implications of new products, transaction flows, business models, and market expansion.
• Partner with the licensing team on complex or novel legal and regulatory matters, including regulator interpretations and jurisdictional strategy, with clear coordination between legal advisory and licensing administration responsibilities.
• Provide legal guidance on federal and state financial-services laws, including BSA/AML, OFAC, consumer-protection, privacy, money-transmission, and digital-asset regulatory requirements.
• Develop accurate, consistent, and persuasive written submissions to regulators and coordinate the collection and analysis of supporting facts, data, and documents.
• Own legal strategy for significant litigation, arbitration, and dispute-resolution matters, including consumer, commercial, and regulatory disputes, from inception through resolution.
• Lead factual investigations, discovery, briefing, witness and executive preparation, depositions, hearings, negotiations, and trial strategy.
• Select, supervise, and manage outside counsel; establish strategy, maintain accountability, control costs, and ensure high-quality legal representation.
• Advise the General Counsel and senior leadership on litigation exposure, enforcement trends, settlement strategy, remediation, and risk-mitigation options.
• Advise business leaders and cross-functional teams on regulatory and legal issues affecting CoinFlip’s products and operations, translating complex requirements into practical, risk-based guidance.
• Partner with Compliance, Licensing, Risk, Operations, Product, and other business teams to interpret regulatory requirements, strengthen policies and controls, and address examination findings and emerging risks.
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments affecting crypto kiosks, OTC trading, money transmission, and digital-asset services, and assess their impact on CoinFlip’s business.
• Collaborate with the Government Affairs team on legislative and policy matters, including analyzing proposed laws and regulations, developing advocacy positions, drafting comment letters and testimony, and representing the company in meetings, hearings, and other proceedings involving legislators, policymakers, and regulators.
• Support strategic legal and regulatory initiatives led by the Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel, or Global Head of AML.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Federal holidays and unlimited PTO
• Flexible work from home policy
• Comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with match)
• Reimbursement for ARDC annual dues, professional organization expenses, legal conferences and CLEs