Member of Legal, Brokerage and Trading Solutions

About the Position

Member of Legal, Brokerage and Trading Solutions

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic legal guidance from product discovery through launch.
• Conduct critical research and establish policies.
• Ensure full regulatory compliance across market infrastructure.
• Lead the structuring, drafting, and negotiation of key counterparty agreements.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on complex regulatory frameworks and compliance obligations.

Requirements

• Technical Skills:

  • Strong understanding of the laws and regulation applicable to spot, margin, derivatives, platform trading, and prime brokerage for digital assets.
  • Ability to create, draft, and 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.

• Complexity and Impact of Work:

  • Work closely with the Associate General Counsel for trading solutions, business heads, and their teams to grow the trading solutions business.
  • 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.

• Organizational Knowledge:

  • Strong understanding of various market infrastructure, including direct knowledge of crypto trading venues, prime brokers, custodians, and payment rails.
  • Ability to convey relevant legal issues to internal stakeholders to ensure that knowledge is shared across the appropriate teams.
  • Ability to prioritize work based on company’s goals and communicate the ‘why’ behind your work.

• Communication and Influence:

  • 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.
  • Strong communication skills, both internally and externally.
  • Ability to be client-facing while working with cross-functional teams on multiple projects internally.

You May Be a Fit for This Role If:

• You are highly organized with a bias for action, meticulous attention to detail, and the ability to produce quality work in a fast-paced, high-volume work environment.
• You have an 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 solve for institutional clients’ complex business needs.
• You have 8+ years of transactional experience in reviewing various financial transaction agreements, primarily lending agreements, prime brokerage agreements, ISDA/CSA, and trade confirmations.
• You’re experienced working in a fast-paced startup/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).
• You can think creatively and propose commercial and pragmatic solutions.
• JD preferred.

Bonus Points If:

• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Collaborative and inclusive workplace culture

About the Company

About Anchorage Digital: Who we are

The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 600 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.

Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work-regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

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We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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