Responsibilities

📍Provide legal and regulatory support to the US business on matters that affect Blockchain.com with an eye towards how they impact the business globally. 📍Monitor, assess and advise the business on legal and regulatory issues that impact entity licensing and registration, product development and distribution. 📍Support Blockchain.com in its various licensing and registration initiatives (including potential BitLicense applications). 📍Partner with Compliance in respect of regulatory licensing matters and liaise with local regulators where necessary. 📍Ensure that the US business is aligned with applicable laws and regulations in the region (and coordinate with colleagues in the UK, Europe and Latin America). 📍Handle and/or assist with regulatory inquiries and investigations (as requested). 📍Work effectively across business units and product-related functions to resolve complex business and risk issues. 📍Engage outside counsel relationships as necessary.

Requirements

📍LLB/JD and admission in a US jurisdiction. 📍8 - 10+ years relevant regulatory experience; in-house FinTech experience a bonus. 📍Proven high-performing legal experience in an in-house environment. 📍Ability to work well under pressure with diligence, organization, and minimal supervision, and provide practical, business-friendly advice to clients. 📍Strong analytical and strategic skills; ability to drive issues to a quick resolution that factors in many non-legal variables, such as brand-risk, communications, government relations, tax, insurance, finance and other business units. 📍High degree of professional ethics and integrity. 📍Ability to anticipate legal issues or risks and to build the processes and systems to prevent them from occurring.