Deriv.com
Senior In-house Legal Counsel
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Senior Legal Counsel – Legal Operations & Litigation (Fintech AI)
The challenge
Your job: minimize legal risk across Deriv’s fintech operations—where contract missteps create exposure, where disputes lack clear precedents, and where legal operations must scale as fast as the business grows.
You’ll:
- Manage contracts from drafting to termination
- Handle litigation where fintech creates novel legal questions
- Design legal frameworks that reduce manual work
- Make critical business-aligned judgements, not just administrative reviews
This isn’t legal administration—it’s making decision-driven legal choices that define what Deriv can build.
Why this matters
Deriv’s mission is Trading for Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime. Operating globally means navigating complex, conflicting legal frameworks. Your legal work directly impacts:
- Which products we can launch
- Which partnerships we can form
- Whether business operations survive regulatory scrutiny or legal disputes
Your expertise provides clear commercial guardrails while ensuring growth remains legally defensible.
Why Deriv
- Build—not just adopte—AI-powered legal tools. You’ll collaborate with engineers to automate contract drafting, legal research, and compliance tracking.
- Own outcomes, not just opinions. Manage high-stakes projects with real business consequences—not just redacted memos.
- Shape strategy, not just manage risk. Legal assessments directly influence product decisions, partnerships, and operational frameworks.
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What you’ll do
Core responsibilities
- Contract lifecycle management: Draft, negotiate, and manage contracts where innovative fintech-first terms require risk-balanced decision-making.
- Graduate disputes & litigation where fintech creates uncharted legal questions. Develop and execute litigation strategy with third-party counsel.
- Build global frameworks:
- Proactively design policy for contract governance and regulatory compliance to prevent reactive audits.
- Stay ahead of evolving regulations in cross-border legal matters (incl. GDPR & jurisdiction-specific requirements).
- Fintech compliance guidance:
- Translate complex data privacy (GDPR, global frameworks), licensing, and regulatory requirements into actionable business guidance.
- Train teams to navigate legal boundaries without bottlenecks.
- AI-ready legal processes:
- Partner with engineers to automate legal workflows (contract drafting, compliance tracking, etc.).
- Eliminate repetitive tasks to free legal expertise for high-impact decision-making.
- Broader collaboration:
- Work closely with senior stakeholders (business, compliance, risk, product) to achieve legally sound, commercially viable outcomes.
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Who you are
We’re looking for a tenacious, commercially astute legal leader. Key traits:
- 6+ years of in-house corporate legal experience—with a track record of owning matters end-to-end (not just delegating reviews).
- Fintech & tech-first legal expertise:
- Deep understanding of regulation in fast-moving industries (where law and innovation outpace each other).
- AI & automation fluency:
- Current knowledge of—and eagerness to experiment with—AI tools for legal workflows.
- Impact-driven risk mindset:
- Balances legal protection with business pragmatism—no "the safe answer is no" paralysis.
- Clarity in ambiguity:
- Dismantles legal jargon to empower engineers, product teams, and executives with digestible guidance.
- Global, multi-jurisdictional experience:
- Preferred: Experience with data privacy frameworks (e.g., GDPR equivalents).
- Stakeholder advocacy:
- Influences senior decision-makers, manages competing priorities, and drives cross-functional alignment.
The realistic reality This isn’t routine legal work. You’ll direct legal strategy at the intersection of growth, risk, and regulation—where every call shapes global markets, product roadmaps, and partnerships. Sound judicial? Step up. Want to build legal systems that scale as fast as Deriv? Let’s talk.
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