Senior Counsel - Product at Kraken

<h1><strong>Building the Future of Open Finance</strong><br /></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br />Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.kraken.com/culture"><u>culture page</u></a> to understand what drives us and how we work.</p><h2><strong>The team</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Join our growing Product Legal team, embedded with Kraken’s Product, Design, and Engineering teams to ship novel products and experiences that accelerate the global adoption of crypto and advance key global licensing initiatives. We’re a tight, experienced group of product lawyers from a diverse range of tradfi, fintech, and crypto backgrounds who move fast, stay curious, and take pride in the commercial accountability of our advice - partnering directly with product teams to chart clear, defensible paths to launch.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The Senior Counsel role is based in the UK, or EU, partnering on licensing efforts in the UK, EU and various other jurisdictions and cutting edge products including tokenized equities, margin, institutional custody, prime brokerage, financing, OTC.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will operate as a practical legal generalist with a dual focus:</p><ol style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Product — partnering with cross‑functional teams on consumer, institutional, and market products (e.g., tokenized instruments, margin, institutional custody, prime brokerage, financing, OTC) from ideation through launch and lifecycle; and</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Licensing — driving strategy, scoping, and execution of licensing/registration efforts across priority jurisdictions.</p></li></ol><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re looking for a hands-on lawyer with strong licensing experience, product development instincts, regulatory fluency, and negotiation skills (ideally honed in the regulated financial sector) combined with a crypto-forward mindset. Curiosity, flexibility, and a bias for action at the intersection of crypto and traditional global markets are essential.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em><strong>This is a fully remote role</strong></em><br /></p><h2><strong>The opportunity</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own