Product Counsel

Job Description

Job Description

About MoonPay

MoonPay is for builders with something to prove.

This isn't a "work on cool crypto stuff" company. It's a high-standards, high-velocity, high-accountability company building the operating system for value movement. If the internet moves information, we move value: crypto, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and whatever comes next. Four offerings make that real: fund, tokenize, trade, and spend. 30M+ customers and 500+ ecosystem partners run on us. Licensed in the U.S. Regulated across the UK, EU, Canada, and Australia.

AI is the default operating mode here. It's woven into every role, and we expect you to use it daily. It handles the manual work so you can deliver on what actually matters.

You'll thrive here if outcomes excite you more than process, if impact motivates you more than titles, and if you want hard problems, real ownership, and teammates who love winning, building, and doing it together.

The bar is high. The pace is real. We're building for what's next, for humans and agents.

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About the Opportunity ✍️

MoonPay is looking for a Product Counsel to be the dedicated legal partner for MoonPay's expanding product suite. This is a rare, high-impact role covering two interconnected mandates: our DeFi products - DEX routing and aggregation, non-custodial wallet infrastructure, and AI-powered agent integrations - and our regulated crypto asset services, including crypto-asset exchange services, digital asset custody, stablecoin issuance, and stablecoin card services.

You will work closely with product, compliance, and regulatory strategy - advising on new features from whiteboard to launch, navigating the complex interface between MoonPay’s regulated entity footprint and decentralized protocol integrations, and building the legal frameworks that allow our teams to move fast without breaking things. 

This role demands genuine fluency across both worlds. You will be expected to develop well-reasoned, risk-calibrated views quickly, communicate them clearly, and be a true thought partner to engineering and product - not just a gatekeeper.

What you will do…

Product legal coverage

• Serve as a primary legal partner for MoonPay's DeFi product teams, providing full product lifecycle counselling from ideation through development, launch, and iteration.

• Advise on the legal and regulatory characterisation of DEX routing, smart order routing, and aggregation features across multiple chains and jurisdictions — including analysis of SEC, CFTC, and FinCEN frameworks.

• Provide legal coverage for MoonPay's non-custodial wallet products, including MPC key management architecture, chain abstraction, self-custody user flows, and associated consumer protection obligations.

• Advise on AI agent and autonomous payment integrations — including the legal treatment of agentic transaction flows, user authorisation frameworks, and the evolving regulatory landscape for AI-driven financial services.

• Provide product legal support for the launch of digital asset services by our regulated entities — working alongside entity-specific regulatory counsel to ensure that new product features are scoped and built consistently with the licensing conditions in each market.

Regulatory navigation

• Navigate the interface between MoonPay's licensed regulated entities — including our US money transmission licenses and NYDFS BitLicense and trust company charter — and non-custodial and decentralized product features.

• Support business lines with products and services regulated by the Fed, OCC, SEC, CFTC, CFPB, and potentially other federal regulatory bodies, and how those products and services interact with MoonPay’s suite of decentralized products

• Monitor and assess regulatory developments across key jurisdictions as they apply to MoonPay’s suite of products, and translate these into actionable product guidance.

• Partner with Regulatory Affairs and contribute to MoonPay's regulatory strategy on emerging product areas, including engagement with external counsel and regulatory stakeholders where relevant.

• Advise on the regulatory characterisation of new products, services, and asset types, as well as other regulated activities as MoonPay’s product suite expands, including analysis of whether new products require licensing modifications or new applications in existing or new jurisdictions.

Commercial and operational

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements supporting MoonPay’si product development: protocol integration agreements, API and SDK licences, routing and liquidity provider arrangements, and partnership documentation.

• Advise on and draft terms of service, user disclosures, and consumer protection documentation for DeFi-facing product features.

• Develop scalable legal review frameworks and playbooks that enable the product and compliance teams to self-serve on routine product questions.

• Work cross-functionally with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Regulatory Affairs, and Engineering to build the internal knowledge and process infrastructure needed to support a rapidly expanding DeFi product portfolio.

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What you will need…

• JD (or equivalent) and active bar membership in at least one jurisdiction.

• 6+ years of legal experience, including meaningful in-house experience at a crypto, DeFi, fintech, or regulated financial services company.

• Deep, working understanding of DeFi: how DEXs and AMMs operate, what smart order routing involves, how non-custodial wallets and MPC key management work, and how smart contracts are used in protocol integrations.

• Solid grounding in the US regulatory frameworks most relevant to DeFi products: FinCEN money transmission and MSB analysis, SEC securities regulation, CFTC commodity derivatives regulation, and NYDFS requirements for licensed entities.

• Experience providing product lifecycle legal advice directly to engineering and product teams 

• Excellent communications skills — the ability to deliver crisp, practical legal advice and synthesise complex regulatory constructs succinctly, especially where the law is unsettled or its application to novel technology is unclear.

• High comfort with legal ambiguity, risk-adjusted thinking, and fast-paced environments where the right answer is not always obvious.

What would be great…

• Experience advising on MPC, threshold signature schemes, or other non-custodial key management architectures.

• Familiarity with AI agent architectures and the legal frameworks emerging around autonomous financial transactions.

• Experience with on-chain protocol governance, smart contract audit processes, or open-source software licensing in a crypto context.

• Familiarity with crypto asset custody regulation and card program legal frameworks.

• Exposure to prediction markets, on-chain derivatives, or structured DeFi products (e.g., Polymarket, Hyperliquid, GMX, or comparable protocols).

• Experience supporting the launch of novel regulated financial services, including licensing strategy, product scoping for regulatory compliance, and ongoing licence condition management.

• Prior experience drafting or advising on protocol integration agreements, liquidity provider arrangements, or similar DeFi commercial documentation.

Research has shown that women are less likely than men to apply for this role if they do not have experience in 100% of these areas. Please know that this list is indicative, and that we would still love to hear from you even if you feel that you are only a 75% match. Skills can be learnt, diversity cannot.

Please let us know if you require any accommodations for the interview process, and we'll do our best to provide assistance.

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• \uD83D\uDCB0 Competitive salary package

• \uD83E\uDD1D Equity package: financial freedom starts with our employees, so all employees have ownership at MoonPay

• \uD83D\uDCC8 Pay-for-performance equity bonus: those who drive outsized outcomes receive outsized rewards

• \uD83D\uDE80 Moonshot award: we honor exceptional impact. 10 employees twice a year, each earning a $250,000 equity grant

• \uD83D\uDCCAPension: employer contributions from day one

• \uD83C\uDF81Employee referral program: refer great people, earn 10K in USDC

• \uD83C\uDFDD Flexible Time Off: choose when to work and when to switch off

• \uD83C\uDF82 Birthday leave: take the day off to celebrate you

• \uD83C\uDF7C Enhanced parental leave: more time with family, no second thought

• \uD83C\uDF0D Hybrid working schedule: work fully remotely or from your nearest Moonbase

• \uD83D\uDE86 Commuter benefits: public transport to and from the office

• \uD83E\uDE7A Private healthcare benefits: to protect you and your loved ones

• \uD83E\uDDD8 Wellhub wellness membership: access to gyms, studios, classes, and wellness apps in one membership

• \uD83E\uDD16 Unlimited enterprise access to the latest AI tools: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and whatever's next

• \uD83C\uDF71 Lunch credit: meals covered on the days you're in the office

• \uD83E\uDE91 Home office setup allowance: build the home office of your dreams

• \uD83D\uDC5B Remote working allowance: those working fully remotely get a little extra for utilities

• \uD83C\uDF15 Monthly product budget and zero-fee crypto transactions

• \uD83D\uDCDA $1,000 Annual training budget: we support your learning journey

• \uD83C\uDFAF High Potential Program: structured development, mentorship, and stretch opportunities

• ✈️ Regular remote company offsites: high-impact in-person sessions and hackathons

• \uD83D\uDEB2 (Ireland) Cycle to Work scheme: tax-efficient bike, gear, and safety kit

• \uD83D\uDD0C (UK) EV Salary Sacrifice: lease an electric vehicle through pre-tax salary

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.