Deputy General Counsel – Global Head of Derivatives and Trading Legal

🕒 October 2

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $232.1k - $517k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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📋 Description

• Own global derivatives structuring strategy, including product structure, venue and entity architecture, clearing models, and delivery across separately licensed entities • Solve cross-entity issues with Payward’s Regulatory Legal team, including hub-and-spoke architecture, unified balances, cross-margining, and allocation of risk and client relationships • Serve as the named senior legal owner for derivatives and trading product lines • Participate in the product launch process from the outset • Lead and build the legal team by hiring, levelling, developing senior derivatives counsel, and building succession • Partner with Global Policy and Government Relations on derivatives regulatory engagement with the CFTC, NFA, FCA, BMA, CySEC, and others • Support supervised entities holding derivatives permissions and work on supervisory relationships, new permissions, and variations tied to product launches • Bring structuring judgement in-house and direct external counsel when specialist input is required • Perform additional duties and responsibilities as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Attorney admitted to practice in the US, or qualified lawyer (Solicitor/Barrister of England & Wales, Irish Solicitor/Barrister, or equivalent admitted in an EU Member State) • 18+ years' post-qualification experience (PQE) in financial services regulatory law • Experience gained at a regulated financial services institution, major liquidity provider, or law firm/private practice supporting such clients • Ability to independently own BAU regulatory workstreams • Experience supporting regulator engagement, including notifications, information requests, and supervisory correspondence • Substantial senior in-house or equivalent experience in derivatives legal • Demonstrated ownership of structuring strategy • Deep, expert-level command of at least one derivatives regulatory regime: US (CFTC, NFA; FCM, DCM and DCO structures), UK (FCA), EEA, or an offshore regime such as Bermuda • High degree of fluency in at least one additional derivatives regulatory regime • Direct experience with virtual asset markets • Experience structuring products across multiple licensed entities in different jurisdictions • Track record of building or materially scaling a legal function or team, including hiring, levelling, and succession • Ability to operate at function level and hold senior lawyers accountable for results and behaviour • Credibility with regulators and judgement to take positions before them • Comfort operating as the senior legal voice in a fast-moving, product-led business • Nice to have: exposure to prediction markets, margin lending, tokenized and structured products • Nice to have: experience integrating acquired regulated entities and legal teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus program • Equity program • Wellness allowance • Medical, dental, and vision benefits (US Only) • 401(k) benefits (US Only) • Equal opportunity employment • Job-related skills or work-style assessments applied consistently across candidates • Ongoing application acceptance unless a deadline is specified

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