Top Legal Jobs in Chicago, IL

The role involves providing legal guidance on digital assets and regulatory compliance, leading complex legal initiatives, and supporting product development. A strong background in fintech and digital regulations is essential.

As Special Counsel for Payments, you will advise on legal aspects of payments products, ensuring compliance with financial regulations and guiding teams through complex legal issues related to product launches and operations.

Provide legal and regulatory counsel for Circle's payments products, advising on product design, licensing, AML/BSA, consumer protection, cross-jurisdictional expansion, and compliance for launches and marketing.

The Legal Intern will support the product legal team with regulatory research, legal analysis, and collaboration across teams for payments product initiatives.

Lead Product Compliance Analyst embedding regulatory and operational compliance across Digital Assets and Payments. Lead risk assessments, define controls, drive cross-functional readiness for liquidity, settlement, and USDC initiatives, develop AI-enabled compliance tooling, monitor regulatory developments, and contribute to enterprise compliance frameworks and strategy.

Serve as Circle's internal authority on prudential banking regulation for stablecoins, payments, custody, and blockchain infrastructure. Advise senior leadership, engage with U.S. banking regulators, translate supervisory frameworks to digital-asset products, partner with cross-functional teams, and coordinate external regulatory counsel and licensing/examination strategy.