Member of Legal, Regulatory (Senior Regulatory Counsel)

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

Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.

The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. 

We are seeking a senior regulatory counsel to collaborate with the Anchor Labs family of businesses on the design and launch of innovative new features, products, and services to better serve our institutional clients. Anchorage Digital is more than just custody, and this is an exciting opportunity to collaborate cross-functionally with our engineering, product, sales, and marketing teams to bring new ideas to life in a way that is compliant and scalable. You will leverage your deep background in the laws and regulations that affect the crypto industry and your passion for bringing new products to market to provide clear, actionable regulatory advice to our business. You will keep abreast of the latest regulatory and policy developments in crypto and conduct regulatory analysis and interpretation to better serve our clients and advance the crypto industry. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the expansion of Anchorage Digital’s suite of offerings at a pivotal time for the industry.

We have created the following Factors of Growth & Impact to help the Member of Legal, Regulatory Counsel better measure impact and articulate the coaching, feedback, and rich and rewarding learning that we will take place while the Regulatory Counsel explores, develops, and masters the capabilities and contributions of the role:

Technical Skills:

• Drive informed regulatory decision making with comprehensive legal research and analysis of relevant areas of law, including those related to securities, derivatives, and digital assets.
• Contribute to building a repository of legal research and memoranda of law that can be referenced and used to inform legal and regulatory decision making processes for the legal team, business, and other stakeholders.
• Deep knowledge of the federal securities laws. Knowledge of federal derivatives law, AML, and state crypto regulatory regimes a plus.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Assist the legal team in identifying key areas for further regulatory analysis and providing feedback to the business regarding key legal and regulatory questions.
• Drive work independently while keeping track of progress related to medium-to-large projects and processes.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand business needs and identify key legal and regulatory questions requiring further research and understanding to advance the business.
• Help convey relevant legal issues to internal stakeholders to ensure that knowledge is shared across the appropriate teams.

Communication and Influence:

• Develop clear communication lines and work closely with the legal and business teams to provide relevant regulatory background and analysis.
• Contribute to internal decision making discussions around legal and regulatory questions that arise from within the legal team and the business’s product development efforts.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• 6+ years of law firm or in-house experience counseling financial services, technology, or digital asset-related clients.
• Expertise in the federal securities laws. Knowledge of federal derivatives law, AML, and state crypto regulatory regimes a plus.
• 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.
• Understanding of the regulatory frameworks, existing and proposed, that pertain to various digital assets business models.
• Ability to analyze areas of law, quickly and comprehensively understand the applicable laws, regulations, and guidance (including finding the most current and applicable versions of those laws and regulations), and synthesize research into concise reports or memoranda.
• Ability to apply traditional financial legal concepts to the digital asset space to solution for institutional clients’ complex business needs.
• 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, and to communicate advice in a clear and actionable way.Active membership in a state bar.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

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

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 300 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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