Senior Counsel - Product (Financial Services & Crypto)

Location: Remote in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Cyprus, Portugal, or Poland; applicants must be qualified as a UK solicitor or admitted in an EU jurisdiction.

Company

hirify.global is a global crypto platform offering spot trading, margin, futures, staking, OTC services, payments, and tokenised financial products for individual and institutional clients.

What you will do

• Advise on consumer crypto products including trading, earn, payments, on-chain integrations, equities, and tokenised equities.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to shape and launch new products and user experiences.
• Provide clear, actionable guidance on complex legal and regulatory issues to non-lawyers and product stakeholders.
• Assess legal and regulatory risk pragmatically and present commercially accountable options and recommendations.
• Negotiate and support product development in regulated financial services and crypto markets.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer: Solicitor of England & Wales, Irish Solicitor, or equivalent admission in an EU Member State.
• 5+ years' post-qualification experience in financial services law at a regulated financial services firm, crypto services provider, or private practice, ideally including direct product counselling.
• Experience advising on regulated MiFID investment services is preferred, with familiarity with relevant crypto-asset regimes including MiCA, AMLD5, UK financial promotions, and/or e-money regulations.
• Outstanding analytical, drafting, organisational, and plain-English writing skills.
• Ability to distil complex legal and regulatory matters into clear guidance for non-lawyers and product stakeholders.
• Pragmatic, commercially accountable approach to legal and regulatory risk, with the ability to provide useful options and clear recommendations.
• Authentic passion for crypto and familiarity with hirify.global and competitor apps and products.

Nice to have

• Expertise in the MiCA framework for CASPs, including brokerage, custody, and trading platforms.
• Expertise in the UK crypto-asset financial promotions regime and proposed authorisation rules for crypto-asset service providers.
• Expertise in MiFID frameworks covering derivatives, equities, funds, and tokenised financial instruments.
• Experience using AI tools such as Enterprise GPTs to improve legal service delivery and create self-service tools for routine legal and regulatory queries.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work within the listed UK and EU locations.
• Work with a diverse, globally distributed Product Legal team embedded with Product, Design, and Engineering.
• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis unless a specific deadline is stated.
• Qualified applicants with criminal histories are considered consistently with applicable requirements.
• Job-related skills or work-style assessments may be included in the hiring process.
• Equal opportunity employment with no tolerance for discrimination or harassment.

Hiring process

• Be prepared to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments if requested; results are considered alongside experience and interviews.
• Applicants may redact age, date of birth, and education attendance or graduation dates from their resumes.