Deputy General Counsel, Fintech Payments & Compliance

Ethena Labs; United States; Sur place; USD 180 000 - 260 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Ethena Labs is seeking a dedicated lawyer to own day-to-day product, legal and compliance advice for Ethena Pay, a live digital dollar-powered payments consumer product.

You will work with our Compliance team to ensure program practicality, negotiate with partners, review product flows and lead licensing strategy as we expand into new markets. This hands-on role offers significant room to grow as the product and function scale.

Qualifications

• Significant legal experience in fintech or payments, with meaningful in-house time.
• Experience as counsel to a consumer-facing app, and negotiating with crypto-native card issuers and ramp providers.
• Hands-on experience with a payments or fintech compliance function.
• Track record negotiating payments vendor and partner agreements and licensing work.
• Pragmatic, commercial judgement and clear writing.
• Interest in, or experience with, stablecoins and crypto payments.

Responsabilités

• Be the day-to-day legal and compliance counsel for Ethena Pay: terms, disclosures, marketing review, privacy and product launches.
• Map and maintain the regulatory perimeter and obligations register across the markets we serve.
• Oversee and strengthen the compliance framework with our Compliance team: AML/KYC, sanctions, complaints and regulator or law-enforcement requests.
• Negotiate and manage agreements with our card issuer, ramp providers, KYC and infrastructure partners.
• Lead licensing and registration strategy and applications, working with outside counsel and regulators.
• Build the playbooks and, over time, the team behind the function.

Connaissances

Fintech legal experience

In-house counsel

Consumer app counsel

Vendor agreements

Regulatory compliance

Crypto payments

Description du poste

Ethena Labs is seeking a dedicated lawyer to own day-to-day product, legal and compliance advice for Ethena Pay, a live digital dollar-powered payments consumer product.

You will work with our Compliance team to ensure program practicality, negotiate with partners, review product flows and lead licensing strategy as we expand into new markets. This hands-on role offers significant room to grow as the product and function scale.