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About the Role

Serve as a trusted legal partner to Circle's capital markets business development team, focusing on crypto exchange partnerships, digital asset market maker agreements, and institutional capital markets transactions globally. Structure, negotiate, and draft complex agreements for crypto, fintech, and capital markets, supporting the Arc network's go-to-market strategy and aiding in the development of contract templates and efficient contracting workflows.

Responsibilities

Serve as a trusted legal partner to Circle's capital markets business development team, working collaboratively and building strong lines of communication across global deal teams — with a primary focus on supporting crypto exchange partnerships, digital asset market maker agreements, and institutional capital markets transactions globally.
Structure, negotiate, and draft complex crypto, fintech, and capital markets agreements — including exchange listing and integration agreements, market maker and liquidity provision agreements, co-funding, credit and collateral arrangements, and USYC tokenized collateral transactions — addressing legal risk in business-centric ways with the goal of strengthening commercial partnerships and advancing revenue opportunities.
Support Arc's capital markets go-to-market, including drafting and negotiating agreements with exchanges, liquidity providers, validators, and institutional partners participating in Arc's lending, borrowing, FX, and tokenized asset use cases.
Support the creation and expansion of contract templates and playbooks for capital markets transaction types, including exchange, market maker, and digital asset collateral frameworks, to increase speed and consistency across the deal pipeline.
Aid in the development and implementation of processes, procedures, and metrics (including efficient contracting workflows) to increase the overall effectiveness of legal services provided to global capital markets teams.
Assist business leaders with contract interpretation and management as they execute deals with exchanges, trading firms, custodians, and other institutional counterparties globally.
Remain current on developments in crypto capital markets, digital assets, tokenization, stablecoins, and blockchain infrastructure — including Arc's role as a settlement and capital markets layer — to provide sound, practical transactional advice across Circle's institutional go-to-market motion.

Requirements

10+ years of legal experience in capital markets, crypto, or financial services.
3+ years of prior experience at a top-tier law firm.
J.D. (or foreign equivalent) and active membership in at least one U.S. State Bar.
Extensive experience drafting and negotiating complex crypto, fintech, and capital markets agreements, including exchange, market maker, liquidity provision, collateral, and digital asset transactions.
Familiarity with TradFi capital markets concepts — including derivatives, structured products, collateral management, and market infrastructure — and how these intersect with digital asset and blockchain ecosystems.
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams on high-impact, institutional partnerships, with a focus on capital markets, exchanges, and market maker business teams.
Ability to manage a variety of initiatives, matters, and transactions requiring analysis and distillation of relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards, ideally in a financial services, fintech, or crypto environment.
Ability to identify regulatory, tax, accounting, and other potential implications and quarterback deals to ensure all relevant stakeholders are aligned on transactions.
Comfort leveraging AI tools to streamline routine tasks and enhance workflow efficiency, while exercising independent legal judgment and maintaining full responsibility for reviewing, verifying, and validating outputs to ensure legal accuracy and mitigate risk.
Willingness to participate in negotiation calls outside standard business hours to support global deal teams.
Familiarity with the legal and regulatory landscape across key global markets relevant to Circle's business, including digital assets, stablecoins, tokenization, and capital markets — with an understanding of how product and technology requirements intersect with those frameworks.
Prior exposure to ISDA documentation, master trading agreements, or other capital markets framework agreements is a plus.
Prior experience working with the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Financial Supervisory Service regulations is a plus.
Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS, ChatGPT and other AI tools, and GSuite.

Skills

Legal partner
Capital markets
Crypto
Fintech
Blockchain infrastructure
Negotiation
Drafting agreements
Contract management
Legal risk assessment
Cross-functional collaboration
AI tools
Legal judgment
Legal accuracy
Risk mitigation
ISDA documentation
Master trading agreements
Slack
Apple MacOS
ChatGPT
GSuite

Location

Remote

Work Type

Remote
Full-time

Experience Level

10+ years of legal experience
3+ years of prior experience at a top-tier law firm

Education Level

J.D. (or foreign equivalent)
Active membership in at least one U.S. State Bar

Salary/Compensations

$230,000 - $297,500

Benefits

Flexible work environment
New ideas are encouraged

About the Company

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure.
Circle's platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet.
Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation.
Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do.
As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions.
Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence.
We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.
Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core.
Circle believes in a future where digital dollars work securely around the world to create a more prosperous global economy for everyone.
To accomplish this, we created USDC, a digital currency backed by the US dollar and always redeemable 1:1.
We work closely with regulators to ensure our digital dollar guides and surpasses the standards for stablecoins.
By doing this, USDC has the potential to change how money moves around the world.
Our values of Multistakeholder, Mindful, Driven by excellence, and High integrity drive us to succeed.
Valuing our employees as stakeholders is about creating an environment where people can thrive and grow, be challenged and learn constantly – an environment that thrives on diversity by drawing competitive strength from within.
Employees take pride in Circle’s culture and values.
That’s why community members from around the world say we’re a top place to work.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire.
Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.
Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support.
We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.