Member of Legal (Senior Counsel, Commercial)

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.

Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital.

The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. 

As Member of Legal (Senior Counsel, Commercial), you will be an integral member of the legal team, helping us to memorialize our relationships with our institutional clients in ways that stand the test of time. We are looking for an experienced commercial attorney to work with the business to negotiate and execute a wide range of commercial agreements with our clients, from custody to staking to settlement. An attention to detail, client-focused mentality, and the ability to balance commercial interests against legal realities are essential.

We have created the following Factors of Growth & Impact to help the Senior Counsel, Commercial better measure impact and articulate the coaching, feedback, and rich and rewarding learning that will take place while the Senior Counsel, Commercial explores, develops, and masters the capabilities and contributions of the role:

Technical Skills:

• Experience in negotiating a variety of complex agreements and an understanding of basic contract principles.
• An ability to develop the legal team’s negotiation playbook and keep it updated according to industry standards and regulatory developments.
• Strong understanding of agreement terms and its impact across different internal teams and the company as a whole.
• Familiarity with the types of institutional clients we serve, from traditional financial institutions to venture capital funds to protocols.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Manage internal and external timeline for agreement turnaround time.
• Assist in improving existing agreements and implementing changes cross-functionally.
• Monitor client agreement workflows and advise as the primary legal counsel for workflows.
• Work with the business to manage intake and provide an excellent client onboarding experience.
• The ability to effectively manage a team of attorneys to ensure operational efficiency and collaboration both among the Legal Team and with the business lines it partners with

Organizational Knowledge:

• Have a deep knowledge of the strategy of Anchorage Digital and its various business lines. Actively engage with different groups to work on understanding historical transactions as well as requirements for executing on go-forward global strategy. 

Communication and Influence

• Able to communicate complex issues clearly and credibly across a wide range of audiences.
• Communicate, organize and execute on cross-team goals and projects, by advising internal teams to solve legal issues during negotiations.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• A J.D. degree and at least 5 years of experience.
• A background in drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, and are comfortable interacting with sophisticated institutional clients and counterparties.
• Demonstrated experience working closely with the business and other cross functional teams to build new products, solve complex issues, and strategize growth.
• Enthusiasm for crypto and a foundational understanding of the crypto industry and applicable laws/regulations both in the U.S. and internationally.
• Demonstrated close attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects.
• The ability to execute with minimal supervision and balance commercial and legal realities.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)

About Anchorage Digital: Who we are

The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy. 

Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

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