Bitgo Counsel at BitGo drafts and negotiates a wide range of contracts supporting digital asset custody, trading, and commercial activities. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and managing legal and regulatory risks.
Responsibilities
Draft and negotiate a wide range of prime brokerage, trading, and commercial contracts, including master lending agreements, account control agreements, external client agreements, and more.
Working closely with cross-functional teams to facilitate building, delivery, and marketing of new products.
Supporting international expansion of custody, trading, settlement and related businesses.
Managing legal and regulatory risks in a thoughtful and commercially practicable manner.
Escalating issues to senior team members as appropriate.
Pitching in whenever and wherever needed, even when not directly related to responsibilities described above.
Qualification
FlexibleExperience with employment law mattersDisrupting an industry takes visionCompetitive base salary
Required
4-6+ years of related law firm and/or in-house legal experience at a financial services or crypto company, ideally involving customer-facing sales, trading and/or custody. Must have at least 2 years of experience advising or negotiating against institutional clients at a large law firm or bulge bracket bank.
Ability to balance multiple tasks in accordance with changing deadlines and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to assess and balance legal risks against business interests.
Interest in blockchain and digital assets.
Flexible, “can-do” attitude and willingness to learn.
Preferred
Experience advising on legal data privacy and security matters, including compliance with relevant regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
Understanding of the laws and regulation applicable to (i) transaction settlement, clearing, and securities lending, (ii) securities and derivatives regulation, and (iii) regulations relating to extensions of credit such as Regs T, X and U.
Experience with employment law matters, including drafting employment agreements and advising on HR issues.
Knowledge of intellectual property matters, including software licensing and open-source considerations.
Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.
Here are some of the benefits* of working at BitGo:
Competitive base salary, bonus and stock options
100% company paid health insurance for employee, partner and dependents
