Associate General Counsel, Banking & Capital Markets in Cardiff

About Chainlink

Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi. Many of the world's largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink's standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, GMX and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.

Your Impact

This role focuses on leading the negotiation of complex commercial and technology agreements with institutional players, top-tier banks, asset managers, broker-dealers, and other FMIs as well as Fortune 100 companies. You'll help shape the legal strategy as we expand Chainlink's presence across the financial system and enable the tokenization of real-world assets at scale. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of blockchain and traditional finance, helping deliver mission-critical infrastructure to some of the most sophisticated institutions in the world.

• Act as a strategic legal partner to BCM, Product, Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure teams, enabling Chainlink Labs to deliver critical technology services across the financial ecosystem.
• Negotiate complex technology and infrastructure integration as well as data licensing deals with TradFi clients.
• Negotiate strategic and tailor-made partnership agreements with other major players in the blockchain and RWA industry to develop effective joint go-to-market strategies, while assuring protection of the IP assets of Chainlink Labs.
• Leverage a strong understanding of the regulatory and compliance requirements and frameworks relevant to technology service providers to FMIs, including operational resilience, data protection, DORA, EBA outsourcing guidelines, and cybersecurity requirements.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant legal experience, with foundational training at a top-tier law firm in a corporate or transactional practice.
• At least 3 years of in-house experience at a technology company, structuring and negotiating agreements.
• A strong track record of independently leading complex commercial and corporate transactions, especially in tech, payments, and finance.
• Solid financial services background, with prior experience working in or with regulated financial services firms and familiarity with financial regulation applicable to digital assets.
• License to practice law or equivalent in the US, UK or gained LLM from such jurisdictions.

Preferred Requirements

• Familiarity with digital asset regulation, blockchain infrastructure, and tokenized assets.
• Prior experience supporting legal aspects of go-to-market strategies or cross-border technology deployment.

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