About the company
Founded in 2017, Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions. With the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US, Anchorage Digital offers institutions an unparalleled combination of secure custody, regulatory compliance, product breadth, and client service. We’re looking to diversify our team with people who are humble, creative, and eager to learn. We are a remote friendly, global team, but provide the option of working in-office in New York City, Sioux Falls, Porto, Lisbon, and Singapore. For our colleagues not located near our beautiful offices, we encourage and sponsor quarterly in-person collaboration days to work together and further deepen our Village.
Job Summary
Technical Skills:
📍Strong understanding of the laws and regulation applicable to spot, margin, derivatives, platform trading and prime brokerage for digital assets.
📍Able to create, draft, 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 on crypto trading venues, prime brokers, custodians, and payments rails.
📍Able to convey relevant legal issues to internal stakeholders to ensure that knowledge is shared across the appropriate teams.
📍Able to prioritize work based on company’s goals and communicate the ‘why’ behind your work.
You may be a fit for this role if you have:
📍Highly organized with a bias for action, meticulous attention to detail and 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 solution for institutional clients’ complex business needs 📍8+ years of transactional experience in reviewing various financial transaction agreements, primarily, lending agreements, prime brokerage agreements, ISDA/CSA and trade confirmations. 📍Experience working in a face paced start up / 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) 📍Ability to think creatively and propose commercial and pragmatic solutions.
