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About the Role
Paxos Labs builds enterprise infrastructure that powers the next generation of trusted onchain financial products. We are seeking a General Counsel capable of moving between commercial negotiation, regulatory analysis, and corporate governance matters in a single day. As the sole legal officer, you will establish the legal function from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Own legal and regulatory strategy across the full product line, including stablecoin earn, stablecoin orchestration, tokenized commodities and lending.
- Draft, negotiate, and close every commercial agreement.
- Lead regulatory analysis and positioning, producing defensible characterizations for securities, commodities, money transmission, and virtual asset service provider positioning.
- Own the corporate structure, managing entity formation and maintenance, board governance, intercompany arrangements, cap table matters, and financing documentation.
- Own the compliance stack, including AML and sanctions programs, KYB and counterparty onboarding, due diligence questionnaire responses, and policy suite supporting institutional counterparty relationships.
- Serve as the legal voice in commercial negotiations, sitting directly with counterparties.
- Handle employment, IP, privacy, and general corporate matters as they arise.
Requirements
- JD from an accredited law school and active bar admission and good standing in at least one US jurisdiction.
- 8 to 12 years of practice, ideally combining a top-tier law firm foundation with in-house experience at a digital asset or fintech company.
- Demonstrated digital asset regulatory expertise, including taking and defending positions on token classification, distribution structures, and licensing questions.
- Transactional depth in secured lending or structured finance, including experience with perfection and enforceability.
- Experience working with offshore structures and juggling multijurisdictional coverage.
- Working fluency in how digital asset products function, including conceptual understanding of smart contract architecture.
- Comfort operating without a team and interest in building one as the company scales.
Skills
- Stablecoin earn
- Stablecoin orchestration
- Tokenized commodities
- Lending
- Regulatory analysis
- Securities
- Commodities
- Money transmission
- Virtual asset service provider positioning
- Corporate structure
- Entity formation
- Board governance
- Intercompany arrangements
- Cap table management
- Financing documentation
- AML
- Sanctions programs
- KYB
- Counterparty onboarding
- Due diligence
- Policy development
- Commercial negotiation
- Employment law
- Intellectual property
- Privacy law
- General corporate law
- Digital asset regulatory expertise
- Secured lending
- Structured finance
- Offshore structures
- Multijurisdictional coverage
- Digital asset product functionality
- Smart contract architecture
Location
- New York City
- Remote (case by case basis)
Work Type
- Heavily in-person
- Remote (case by case basis)
Experience Level
- 8 to 12 years of practice
Education Level
- JD from an accredited law school
- Active bar admission and good standing in at least one US jurisdiction
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Ownership structures
- Top-of-the-line benefits
About the Company
- Paxos Labs builds enterprise infrastructure that powers the next generation of trusted onchain financial products.
- We work with the largest financial enterprises in the world to build transparent and verifiable onchain infrastructure that works for end users and everyday financial use cases.
- We are at the forefront of financial innovation for the mass market.
- We are transforming traditional enterprises with innovative digital asset solutions.