Legal Careers at OKX

About the OKX:

OKX is a world-leading digital asset trading platform, providing advanced financial services to traders globally by using blockchain technology.

OKX provides hundreds of token & futures trading pairs to help traders to optimize their strategy. We are also one of the top digital asset trading platforms by trading volume, serving millions of users in over 100 countries. OKX derivatives remains a top-notch venue globally and has a daily volume of approximately $10 billion and is widely recognized as the golden standard in the industry. We believe the blockchain technology will eliminate barriers to transactions, increase the efficiency of transactions across society, and eventually have a significant impact on the global economy. We strive to make innovative achievements that change the world and never stop to improve on our customer experience.

About the role:

The role will be based in our Seychelles office. Working closely with our executive teams, business stakeholders and colleagues in Legal and Compliance globally, you will play a key role in advising OKX on a broad range of legal matters in Seychelles and across different jurisdictions, including compliance with applicable payment services and financial services law and regulation, consumer protection law, product roll-outs and strategic initiatives. You will also update and manage legal policies and procedures and assist with the smooth running of legal operations to ensure that our business receives the highest quality legal advice as we continue to expand globally.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with OKX leadership to define and align the overall OKX legal strategy
• Support the Seychelles Corporate Secretary function, including providing guidance on Board and Committee governance, drafting and assisting with the preparation of Board and Committee meeting materials and minutes, managing the Seychelles legal entity governance and maintenance function, and drafting corporate organizational and governance documents and providing legal support to OKX’s Global Corporate Secretary function on Seychelles governance-related matters.
• Work closely with business executives and the Legal team to ensure compliance of OKX operations with applicable e-money / payment services and financial services law and regulation and digital currency exchange best practices
• Provide legal support to OKX including responsibility for ensuring legal and regulatory compliance of new products and services, inter-company operating arrangements, commercial relationships and banking partnerships, retail and institutional terms of business, assisting the business in rolling out products and services to new jurisdictions and coordinating support and advice with the wider International legal team, as appropriate
• 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
• Keep abreast of all regulatory and policy developments involving cryptocurrency in Seychelles and other key international jurisdictions and assist OKX in its advocacy for effective regulation
• Continuously assess operating risks and legal needs and ensure that the legal department is equipped to provide outstanding support as OKX’s international business continues to grow
• Manage outside counsel effectively where they are engaged in connection with specific projects
• Partner with cross-functional and regional teams and provide support on legal matters of varying complexity, sensitivity, and tangibility
• 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

Requirements:

• Qualified lawyer with 3+ years’ experience working in a regulated payment services or financial services institution in Seychelles (e.g. payment service firm, broker dealer / asset manager) or in a law firm supporting such clients (ideally with some previous in-house experience)
• Willingness and capability to strive for novel and creative solutions wherever possible
• Strong familiarity with financial services regulation is required
• Exceptional professional judgment, exercised in a multicultural, global workplace
• Experience dealing with the Seychelles Financial Services Authority (FSA) and/or other key Seychelles financial regulators
• Ability to manage complex projects involving coordination across multiple time zones, challenging legal issues and tight deadlines
• Ability to work closely with Legal Team colleagues to deliver coordinated input to the business and other stakeholders
• Ability to manage a large and varied time-sensitive workload and exercise excellent judgment, analytical rigor, and commercial pragmatism.
• Must be able to provide crisp and practical legal advice to business executives across a broad range of matters with limited supervision
• Enthusiasm for and a basic understanding of cryptocurrencies/blockchain
• Highly driven and proactive - keen to create process and structure and strive for continuous improvement
• Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, growth-stage environment, subject to regulatory scrutiny, operating excellence and OKX’s demanding standards to operate the world’s most trusted digital currency exchange
• Fluent verbal and written proficiency in English
• Experience with technology companies (ideally Fintech) whether with clients while at a law firm or as an employee