Senior Product Counsel, Crypto

About Figure

Figure Technology Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIGR; OPEN: FGRS) is the leading blockchain-native capital marketplace for the origination, funding, sale and trading of tokenized assets. More than 480 partners use its loan origination system and capital marketplace. Collectively, Figure and its partners have originated over $30 billion of loans to date, among other products. The fastest growing components are Figure Connect, its credit marketplace, and Democratized Prime, Figure’s on-chain lend-borrow marketplace.

Figure’s ecosystem also includes DART (Digital Asset Registry Technology) for asset custody and lien perfection, and $YLDS, a yield-bearing stablecoin registered with the SEC as a security under the Securities Act of 1933.

Figure is the market leader in real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. 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.

We’re proud to be recognized as one of Forbes’ Top 50 Fintech Companies and CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Product Counsel to innovate at the intersection of crypto and securities law at Figure, a Nasdaq-listed financial technology company building financial markets on blockchain. Figure operates at scale where few others do: a marketplace for issuing and trading digital assets (both securities and non-securities), an SEC-registered yield-bearing stablecoin (YLDS), tokenized real-world assets originated through our lending and Figure Connect businesses, and prime brokerage and trading products.

You will provide day-to-day product counseling and help shape Figure's position as U.S. digital asset regulation is rewritten in real time, including stablecoin legislation, pending market structure reform, and active SEC and CFTC rule making. Both in-person in San Francisco or New York and remote workers considered.

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 our 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 rule making 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 We Look For

• 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…