Location: Mexico, Mexico City

Employment Type: Full-time Onsite or Remote

Team: Legal

Binance is the global blockchain company behind the world’s largest digital asset exchange by trading volume and users, serving a greater mission to accelerate cryptocurrency adoption and increase the freedom of money.

Are you looking to be a part of the most influential company in the blockchain industry and contribute to the crypto-currency revolution that is changing the world?

Responsibilities

• Support Binance’s efforts in Mexico, in considering, analysing and applying for any legal subjects such as local approvals, authorisations or licenses
• Drive the development and implementation of group legal strategy and contribute to the development of the organization’s general business strategy
• Proactively identify legal problems, solutions, and potential support needed to provide more strategic support to local teams
• Handle regulatory approvals, authorisation and licenses including related analysis and applications
• Assist in negotiation of contracts for different business lines in the ecosystem, and support in a variety of transactional and corporate governance initiatives
• Be responsible for drafting and reviewing legal documents and provide holistic risk assessment and suggestions to enhance business value while mitigating downside risk across multiple areas of the company
• Support the business teams in the launch and development of new products and services - navigating between the commercial and regulatory worlds
• Provide legal business partner training and counsel non-legal associates to enable stronger legal acumen across the company
• Be responsible for drafting and reviewing contracts and agreements and provide holistic risk assessment and suggestions to enhance business value while mitigating downside risk
• Anticipate and maintain up-to-date knowledge of current laws relevant to your own substantive area to provide strategic advice and foster compliance
• Identify legal framework developments, align and promote consistency of approach in legal matters between the internal stakeholders
• Take prudent risks within the context of the overall business, and advise and implement solutions to address issues identified

Requirements

• Qualified to practise law in Mexico jurisdiction
• At least 5 years of relevant legal experience at a global law firm, and/or as a corporate counsel at a fast-paced technology company
• Extensive financial product experience from initiation to launch is ideal
• Possesses a very strong sense of team spirit and cross-functional collaboration
• Possesses solid legal technical expertise as well as sound business and people judgement sense
• Hands-on at work and can be independent in managing complex projects
• Can develop relevant and creative solutions to meet current and evolving business needs
• Excellent legal drafting and interpretation skills
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and organizational skills
• Business level English and Spanish, Portuguese is a bonus.

Working at Binance

• Do something meaningful; Be a part of the future of finance technology and the no.1 company in the industry

• Fast moving, challenging and unique business problems

• International work environment and flat organisation

• Great career development opportunities in a growing company

• Possibility for relocation and international transfers mid-career

• Competitive salary

• Flexible working hours, Casual work attire