Senior Product Counsel, Crypto

As Senior Product Counsel at Figure, you will provide day-to-day legal guidance to product teams at a Nasdaq-listed financial technology company operating at scale in blockchain-native capital 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 will help shape Figure's position as U.S. digital asset regulation evolves in real time, including stablecoin legislation, market structure reform, and active SEC and CFTC rulemaking. This role is based in San Francisco or New York, or remote.

What you'll do

• Serve as primary legal partner to markets-focused product teams across the full product lifecycle (conception, structuring, 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; 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 (prime brokerage, trading, lending, derivatives, 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 - $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 (RWA) tokenization and blockchain-native capital markets. More than 480 partners use its loan origination system and capital marketplace, and Figure and its partners have originated over $30 billion in loans to date. The company operates a marketplace for digital asset trading, an SEC-registered yield-bearing stablecoin (YLDS), tokenized real-world assets, and prime brokerage products. Figure 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 by Forbes as one of the Top 50 Fintech Companies.