Member of Legal Operations

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.   Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.   The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn. 

With the evolving landscape of digital threats and an increasing volume of sophisticated attacks by malicious actors, we have a security policy mandating all new hires complete an in-person onboarding process - no exceptions. Security is our foundation and we prioritize physical identity verification and secure IT setup. While our security and IT logistics require physical presence to protect our infrastructure from sophisticated global threats, this move is equally about our Village culture. We believe that a laptop can be shipped, but our culture cannot.

We are seeking a Member of Legal Operations to help develop and implement more effective ways to manage legal tasks and projects, directly driving our team’s strategic goals. In this role, you will serve as an essential operational pillar for our corporate governance framework and entity management lifecycle.

Additionally, you will play a key role in supporting a forward-thinking legal operational vision, helping us pioneer and blaze the trail in the evolving world of digital asset finance.

This role can be based in either the United States or Portugal.

We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Member of Legal Operations role:

Technical Skills:

• Lead corporate governance workflows, including maintaining the entity database and supporting global filings to ensure all entities remain in good standing.
• Manage and administer company-wide board and entity management platforms (Diligent), keeping corporate records, files, and minute books audit-ready and compliant.
• Assist in the coordination of the formation or integration of new entities.
• Provide day-to-day operational Ironclad platform support and contract template assistance alongside the legal operations team.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Manage multiple concurrent workstreams and special projects across different legal functions, helping to coordinate cross-functional tasks and meet regulatory deadlines.
• Help enforce legal processes and policies to optimize workflows and identify opportunities to improve departmental efficiency.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Support and assist with the development and maintenance of internal resources, such as training materials on corporate governance and legal topics for the company at large.
• Provide support in maintaining and managing company-wide legal and insurance records, ensuring compliance with company policies and external regulations.

Communication and Influence:

• Collaborate with the legal team and company stakeholders to ensure timely completion of projects and compliance with deadlines.
• Demonstrate strong communication skills, navigating sensitive information with decorum, precision, and a genuine investment in the work.

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• Excellent proficiency with Google Workspace and database management.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Experience with Diligent (for Boards or Entities) or similar corporate tracking tools.
• A unique combination of traits: being conscientious, adaptable, collaborative, creative, curious, and humble.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• Prior exposure to or a strong interest in FinTech, financial services, or cryptocurrency.
• Interest in or experience with Notion.
• A deep alignment with our core values: being conscientious, adaptable, collaborative, creative, curious, and humble.
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
  

About Anchorage Digital: Who we are   The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in  the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 600 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.    Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.   Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.   Protecting your privacy rights is important to Anchorage Digital, and we work to maintain the trust and confidence of our clients when handling personal or financial information. Please see our privacy policy notices here.