Assistant General Counsel, Digital Assets & DeFi

As an Assistant General Counsel for Digital Assets and DeFi at S&P Dow Jones Indices, you will serve as a trusted legal advisor to product, innovation, and commercial teams navigating emerging DeFi, tokenization, and blockchain initiatives. You join a best-in-class global legal team supporting the world's largest provider of index-based concepts and data, helping shape legal frameworks for index construction and licensing in decentralized and tokenized markets.

What you'll do

• Play a leading role in shaping S&P Dow Jones Indices' engagement with decentralized finance, digital assets, and blockchain-based market infrastructure, advising on innovative index solutions, data products, and technology collaborations that influence how global markets evolve.
• Structure, draft, negotiate, and advise on complex commercial agreements across DeFi, digital assets, licensing indices for use with financial products including digital assets, index data subscription and distribution, inbound data, and deployment of blockchain technology.
• Collaborate closely with legal, product, technology, and commercial leaders to provide practical, forward-looking, strategic, and legal advice on matters pertaining to emerging products and business initiatives.
• Help shape legal frameworks for index construction and licensing in decentralized and tokenized markets.
• Evaluate novel business models, protocols, and partnerships involving digital assets, oracle networks, and blockchain infrastructure.
• Anticipate regulatory and legal developments affecting DeFi and translate them into actionable business guidance.
• Support compliance with review and implementation of applicable policies and procedures such as confidentiality, insider trading, and compliance.
• Assist the business in responding to requests for proposal and customer due diligence or risk questionnaires.

What you bring

• A J.D. or LL.M and admission to practice law in any of the states listed within the location.
• 6+ years of legal experience, including possibly in an in-house legal environment, with a focus on commercial contract negotiation and drafting.
• Demonstrated interest in and familiarity with financial services and investment products, decentralized finance, digital asset regulation, digital asset ecosystems, blockchain infrastructure, and tokenized assets.
• Familiarity with data licensing, intellectual property principles, and business technology.
• Excellent drafting, negotiating, and communication skills (both written and spoken).
• Capability to manage high-volume, complex environments with sound judgment and adaptability.
• Ability to recognize and accommodate internal and external client needs while adequately protecting S&P DJI's interests and mitigating liability risk.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Indefinite right to work in the United States.

What we offer

• Anticipated base salary range of $149,031 to $260,291.25 USD, based on geographic location, experience level, skill set, training, licenses, and certifications.
• Eligibility for an annual incentive plan.
• Health and wellness coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Generous time off to keep you energized.
• Access to continuous learning resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family-friendly benefits and perks for partners and dependents.
• Retail discounts and referral incentive awards.

About S&P Dow Jones Indices

S&P Dow Jones Indices is the largest global resource for index-based concepts, data, and research, home to iconic financial market indicators such as the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. More assets are invested in products based on S&P DJI indices than in products based on indices from any other provider in the world. Since Charles Dow invented the first index in 1884, S&P DJI has been innovating and developing indices across all asset classes.