Senior Fintech Counsel – Payments & Compliance Lead

MyRemota; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethena seeks a core dedicated lawyer to own day-to-day product, legal and compliance guidance for Ethena Pay in the United States. You will work closely with Compliance to ensure the program operates smoothly, negotiate with partners and review product flows, and lead licensing strategy as Ethena expands into new markets.

This hands-on role offers growth as the product and legal function scale, with significant opportunities to shape regulatory strategy, vendor agreements, and the overall risk

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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, regulator requests.
• Negotiate and manage agreements with card issuers, ramp providers, KYC and infrastructure partners.
• Lead licensing and registration strategy and applications with outside counsel and regulators.
• Build playbooks and, over time, the team behind the function.

Skills

In-house fintech law

Contract negotiation

Regulatory compliance

Business writing

Crypto payments familiarity

Job description

Ethena seeks a core dedicated lawyer to own day-to-day product, legal and compliance guidance for Ethena Pay in the United States. You will work closely with Compliance to ensure the program operates smoothly, negotiate with partners and review product flows, and lead licensing strategy as Ethena expands into new markets.

This hands-on role offers growth as the product and legal function scale, with significant opportunities to shape regulatory strategy, vendor agreements, and the overall risk