Legal Professional jobs in United Arab Emirates

You will serve as a strategic legal advisor across global crypto regulatory, policy, and security issues, directly supporting the company’s growth, licensing, and strategic engagement with policymakers, regulators, and counterparties. You will be deeply involved in shaping regulatory strategy, external advocacy and crafting the company’s external thought leadership in security and risk management as the global DeFi landscape evolves.

• Monitor and interpret global regulatory developments affecting digital assets and DeFi (e.g. MiCA, VARA, FinCEN, SEC/CFTC)
• Provide strategic legal advice to shape product, operations, and security strategies in response to emerging regulations and market developments
• Represent the company in discussions with regulators, policymakers, and industry bodies
• Contribute to policy advocacy through public consultations, comment letters, and industry working groups
• Draft public-facing white papers, articles and blogposts on the company’s security and risk management frameworks and toolings and collaborate with marketing to externally communicate regulatory, security and risk management thought leadership

• Keep up-to-date with crypto and blockchain security and risk management innovations and technical solutions, analyze their applicability and impact working closely with IT Security and other cross-functional teams, and help assess new security and risk management vendors and partners
• Build and strengthen alliances with other DeFi projects to seek and share best practices in security and risk management
• Assist with implementing legal and enterprise risk frameworks, including policies, controls, and staff training
• Assist with other strategic company initiatives as needed

• Support compliance with AML, sanctions, KYC, and market abuse regulations in the DeFi context
• Assist in enhancing internal policies and programs related to financial crime risk
• Coordinate with third-party vendors on transaction monitoring and risk analytics

• The core skills, knowledge, experience and mindset required to be successful in this role include the following:

• 7+ years of legal experience, ideally combining in-house, regulatory agency, law firm, or industry association roles
• US qualified lawyers with experience working with US laws, policymakers and industry groups is highly desired
• Track record of working with global financial regulations (US, EU, UK, APAC, Middle East) in digital assets, fintech, or financial institutions
• Proven experience engaging with policymakers, regulators, and trade associations on regulatory matters
• Hands-on experience drafting public-facing white papers or articles, and/or actively organized or participated in working groups that submitted commentaries to lawmakers or regulators
• Exposure to AML, sanctions, financial crime compliance, or regulatory investigations (bonus)

• Provide easy to understand and actionable business recommendations
• Skilled at navigating legal ambiguity in fast-changing technical and regulatory environments
• Proficient in translating legal obligations into operational processes and controls
• Excellent critical thinking, synthesis and communications skills
• Persuasion and influence over internal and external stakeholders
• Able to tactfully challenge the decisions of business teams and stand up for your views against senior stakeholders
• Able to see high level strategies and goals and dive into details to deliver creative, pragmatic solutions based on weighted risk analysis
• Able to manage multiple important initiatives across time zones and work under time pressure
• Familiarity with DeFi and the crypto industry (bonus)

• Highly collaborative, practical, solutions-oriented.
• Able to balance legal risk with commercial realities.
• Proactive self-starter, can operate with limited supervision working across teams, timezones and countries.
• Comfortable managing policymakers, regulators, and business executives.

• Join a dynamic, creative team in a fast-paced and supportive environment
• Innovation and Collaboration in web3 tech are core to our success
• We’re open to new ideas— if you’ve got a vision, pitch it and make it happen
• Enjoy competitive pay that matches your skills and experience
• Be part of a company that’s shaping the future of DeFi
• Take time when you need it — we offer unlimited vacation days
• Get fully compensated for your work gear— we’ll set you up for success
• Travel with us! We host an annual team retreat at a top international location
• Explore life at 1inch Labs with us