The opportunity

📍Lead the negotiation, drafting, and ongoing management of prime brokerage (trading and custody) agreements, ISDA Master Agreements, 📍Credit Support Annexes, and related documentation with banks and other institutional counterparties. 📍Help scale Kraken’s commercial lending business by standardizing documentation and driving efficient, risk-appropriate negotiations of loan agreements, term sheets, and security documentation. 📍Partner closely with Treasury, Finance, and OTC teams on day-to-day derivatives trading, cash management, FX, and liquidity facilities, ensuring robust, scalable documentation and collateral frameworks. 📍Structure, draft, and negotiate complex commercial agreements with key institutional and high-net-worth partners and clients. 📍Lead the negotiation of financing and other balance-sheet-impacting documentation in close collaboration with Finance and Treasury. 📍Act as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders, translating complex legal terms into clear business implications and actionable guidance. 📍Use a highly-regulated and well-resourced environment to your strategic commercial advantage. 📍Build and continuously improve commercial legal processes that balance speed, flexibility, and risk management, including leveraging AI and automation tools to increase deal velocity and consistency.

Skills you should HODL

📍Admission to practice law in any State in the United States 📍8+ years of relevant experience negotiating prime brokerage, OTC, derivatives, and other financial services and financial product transactions, ideally both in-house and at a top law firm. 📍Demonstrated comfort negotiating across from sophisticated institutional counterparties, including banks and large asset managers. 📍Significant experience drafting, revising, and negotiating complex institutional commercial contracts, such as loan and ISDA documentation, commercial partnership agreements, prime brokerage documentation, and other treasury/financing contracts. 📍Solid understanding of secured financing, collateral management, and derivatives products. 📍Demonstrated knowledge of and passion for cryptocurrency and digital markets.

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