Senior Counsel – Product, Asia-Pacific

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🌐 Singapore, Hong Kong – Remote

🇸🇬 Singapore – Remote 🇭🇰 Hong Kong – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Crypto • Finance • Fintech

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange is a cryptocurrency platform that facilitates the buying and selling of over 200 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2011, Kraken provides a comprehensive suite of features for both beginner and advanced traders, such as advanced trading interfaces and margin trading. The platform emphasizes industry-leading security, deep liquidity, and 24/7 customer support, making it a trusted choice for users worldwide. Kraken caters to individual investors as well as institutional clients, offering services like OTC trading and custody. The company is committed to transparency with its proof of reserves and mission-driven values. Kraken operates globally, supporting clients in over 190 countries, with a quarterly trading volume exceeding $207 billion. However, users are advised of the high risk of crypto investments and the lack of regulation in some jurisdictions.

📋 Description

• Provide product legal support for APAC launches and enablement across the Payward product suite • Support products including xStocks, OTC options, institutional custody and execution, and cross-regional products rolling out across APAC • Act as gatekeeper for new APAC outside counsel engagements by scoping work, estimating costs and approving external matters • Translate complex regulatory frameworks into pragmatic, actionable business guidance • Use AI-assisted tools for licensing analysis, regulatory submissions and matter tracking • Own the APAC regulatory workload under the APAC regulatory lead • Handle licence variations, client and broker agreement documentation, licensing structure questions and routine regulator correspondence • Own geography-specific licensing in Kazakhstan, Pakistan and the Philippines • Instruct and supervise local counsel across the region and support other APAC markets • Support Payward Group licensing initiatives in Singapore and Hong Kong, including preparing application materials and coordinating with outside counsel • Partner with Compliance, Product and senior leadership to support licensed entities and regulators

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified lawyer admitted in Singapore, Hong Kong, England and Wales, or an equivalent common law jurisdiction • 10 or more years' post-qualification experience in financial services regulatory law • Experience gained at a regulated financial services institution, law firm supporting such clients, and/or relevant regulator • Ability to independently own regulatory relationships and business-as-usual regulatory workstreams, including notifications, information requests and supervisory correspondence • Strong experience with the financial regulatory landscape in a major Asian financial centre • Ability to instruct, supervise and manage the cost of local counsel across multiple jurisdictions, including markets where not admitted • Working knowledge of AML/CTF obligations and regulatory expectations • Outstanding analytical, drafting and organisational skills • Crisp, plain-English writing • Ability to distill complex legal and regulatory issues into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyer stakeholders • Pragmatic, commercially accountable approach to legal and regulatory risk • Ability to work autonomously in a fast-moving, remote, multi-time-zone environment • Experience advising on virtual asset regulation in APAC jurisdictions is nice to have • Familiarity with derivatives, equities and tokenised financial instruments is nice to have • Experience with change-of-control notifications or regulatory aspects of corporate transactions is nice to have • Experience with payments, e-money or card regulation is nice to have • Working proficiency in a second APAC language is nice to have • Interest in crypto and digital assets is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement based in Hong Kong or Singapore • Opportunity to work with a global, diverse team • Kraken product dogfooding after joining • Job-related skills or work-style assessments applied consistently across candidates • Equal opportunity employment • Consideration of qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance