Senior Product Counsel, Crypto

As Senior Product Counsel at Figure, you provide day-to-day legal guidance at the intersection of crypto and securities law for a Nasdaq-listed financial technology company operating at scale in digital asset markets. Figure operates a marketplace for issuing and trading digital assets, an SEC-registered yield-bearing stablecoin (YLDS), tokenized real-world assets, and prime brokerage products. You help shape Figure's regulatory position as U.S. digital asset regulation evolves in real time, including stablecoin legislation, market structure reform, and SEC and CFTC rulemaking. The role is based in San Francisco or New York, or fully remote.

What you'll do

• Serve as primary legal partner to markets-focused product teams across the full product lifecycle, from conception and structuring through launch, operation, and sunset, for digital asset trading, stablecoin, tokenization, and prime brokerage products
• Advise on the application of federal securities laws to blockchain-native products, including registered digital asset securities, tokenized real-world assets, and exchange and ATS activity, in coordination with broker-dealer and public company securities counsel
• Support YLDS and related stablecoin initiatives, including compliance with the GENIUS Act framework and its interplay with SEC-registered yield-bearing structures
• Monitor and translate fast-moving regulatory developments, market structure legislation, SEC and CFTC rulemaking and joint guidance, and state virtual currency regimes into practical product guidance, and support comment letters and regulator engagement
• Counsel on custody, digital wallets, smart contracts, public blockchain protocol matters including Provenance-based infrastructure, and cross-border considerations for a global marketplace
• Negotiate financial and trading agreements, including prime brokerage, trading, lending, custody, and market-maker arrangements
• Partner with Compliance on AML/sanctions considerations for digital asset products and with Marketing on compliant product communications
• Build relationships with ecosystem participants, banking partners, and affiliates

What you bring

• 10+ years as outside or in-house counsel for financial services firms, with deep securities and crypto industry experience; broker-dealer, ATS/exchange, investment adviser, OTC trading, or virtual asset money transmitter background preferred
• Substantial expertise in the Securities Act of 1933 and Securities Exchange Act of 1934, with working knowledge of the Investment Advisers Act and Investment Company Act
• Fluency in the current U.S. digital asset regulatory landscape, including the GENIUS Act, pending market structure legislation, and SEC/CFTC jurisdictional developments
• Product counseling experience with blockchain, crypto, and securities products, including RWA tokens, stablecoins, smart contracts, and digital wallets
• Strong negotiation skills on financial agreements such as prime brokerage, trading, lending, derivatives, and custody
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and giving clear, decisive advice where the law is unsettled
• Genuine interest in digital assets, DeFi, and decentralized applications
• J.D. and membership in good standing with at least one state bar
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills; ability to own, organize, and manage multiple projects simultaneously

Nice to have

• Regulatory agency experience with the SEC or CFTC

What we offer

• Base compensation of $212,520 to $318,780 per year
• 25% annual bonus target, paid quarterly
• Company equity in the form of RSUs
• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% employer-paid premiums for employees and their dependents on select plans
• Company HSA, FSA, Dependent Care, 401k, and commuter benefits
• Employer-funded life and disability insurance coverage
• 11 observed holidays and PTO plan
• Up to 12 weeks paid family leave
• Continuing education reimbursement

About Figure

Figure Technology Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIGR) is the market leader in real-world asset tokenization and operates a blockchain-native capital marketplace for the origination, funding, sale, and trading of tokenized assets. Figure and its partners have originated over $30 billion of loans to date and now serve more than 480 partners. The company has received triple-A ratings from S&P and Moody's on multiple loan securitizations, the first of its kind for blockchain finance, and is recognized as one of Forbes' Top 50 Fintech Companies.