Legal Jobs at Qredo

Qredo is a decentralized digital asset management infrastructure and product suite designed to unlock new opportunities for institutional investors in digital assets and decentralized finance. Qredo's Layer 2 blockchain protocol enables users to seamlessly transfer and settle BTC, ETH, and ERC-20 tokens. Assets are secured by Qredo’s advanced Gen 2.0 multi-party computation (MPC), which provides tier-1 bank security and institutional-grade governance.

Qredo is looking to recruit a Legal and Compliance Director to join this well-funded scale-up to help demonstrate Qredo’s crypto asset custody and tracking solution to our prospects and to assist with post-sales support. This role will report to the CFO in UK and work closely with Qredo’s marketing, finance, legal and operations teams.

*** This is a remote opportunity. We welcome candidates around the globe to apply! ***

Responsibilities

• Development and management of compliance policies and processes
• Ensure ongoing monitoring and reporting
• Coordinating various foreign regulatory filings
• Focusing on internal compliance policy review, including ongoing assessments, assisting with compliance review, internal audit reviews and ongoing or ad hoc reviews
• Providing statistics on monitoring completion as needed
• Making recommendations for enhancing the firm’s systems, controls and processes
• Managing monitoring registers and other records necessary to evidence efforts
• Assisting with maintaining overall compliance with the requirements and obligations prescribed by the regulatory bodies, authorities and other relevant authorities
• Assist with a broad range of legal/regulatory matters, including regulatory perimeter assessments, licensing/registration applications, product assessment, and regulatory investigations, with particular reference to financial products/services in the FinTech, crypto, and blockchain industries across the EU
• Ensures quality relationships through effective contracts, budgets, and timely responses
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of applicable laws and regulations in a rapidly changing legal/regulatory landscape for crypto, to provide strategic and forward-looking advice and foster compliance
• Proactively identify legal problems, solutions and potential support needed to provide strategic support to local business team
• Secures and manages relationships with external counsel

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years experience in a risk, fraud, compliance, AML or regulatory function, experience working with any regulated financial services business in legal or compliance roles preferred
• Professional certification in compliance risk management
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, global organization maintaining close contact with relevant teams across multiple locations
• Excellent problem solving skills and ability to provide useful and efficient counsel
• Good understanding in performing risk assessments, periodic/trigger reviews and enhanced due diligence
• Proficiency in compliance applications and programmes
• To carry out the necessary studies to ensure compliance with the regulations
• Proactive, diligent team player

Qredo offers

• Flexibility to work from anywhere and possibility for international transfer
• Assistance with home office setup as well as offsite team building allowance
• Culturally diverse work environment (we speak 33 languages!)
• Great career development opportunities in a growing company
• Competitive compensation and benefits package within the industry