Junior Legal Counsel

vor 1 Woche


Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz Sygnum Vollzeit

About Us
Sygnum is the world's first bank for digital assets, founded in Switzerland and Singapore, and operating globally.

We make digital assets bankable, secure, and convenient, empowering our clients to invest in the digital asset economy with complete trust.

Sygnum's diverse and talented team of banking, investment and DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) experts is pioneering access to future finance and shaping the development of a trusted digital asset ecosystem.


Join the world's first digital asset bank based in Switzerland as
Junior Legal Counsel, as part of the Legal & Compliance Division and reporting to the Head Legal, to join our growing, high impact team in our office in Zurich.


About You
Are you passionate about

  • Legal and regulatory topics in a fastpacing environment?
  • Independently manage drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts?
  • Investments products in a digital environment?
  • Blockchain and digital assets?
Are you

  • A handson lawyer, eager to push tasks over the finish line?
  • Able to balance multiple complex situations to deliver on time with a high level of integrity, sense of priority and quality standards?
  • An emphatic team player and able to work under pressure and independently?
  • Keen to work in a dynamic, fastmoving and interdisciplinary scaleup bank?
  • Curious about financial services/technology/cryptocurrencies/blockchain/ICOs and related legal solutions?
  • Able to develop and inspire high performing teams, focus on growing a business and retaining an engaged workforce?
Do you have a track record

  • In working effectively with specialist from a range of business fields and evidence of technical expertise to manage complex legal engagements in close collaboration with others?
  • In dealing with a broad range of legal and regulatory topics in the financial industry?
If yes, you're right at Sygnum.

What we offer

  • Provide legal and regulatory advisory services with respect to Swiss laws, rules and regulations in a Swiss crypto banking environment (e.g. FinSA, FinIA, banking law, contract law, web3)
  • Draft, review and negotiate all kinds of agreements and internal regulations as well as provide corresponding advisory services to all business areas of the bank
  • Drive further legal & regulatory projects regarding strategic developments
  • Support new business concepts and put complex products and innovative business ideas on a solid legal framework

What you offer

  • A law degree, additional qualifications (e.g. bar admission (CH/EEA), MBA, LLM) is a plus
  • Preferably 12 years of proven experience as an inhouse counsel, or similar
  • Strong negotiation skills with a proven ability to lead contract negotiations and to deal directly with senior counsels
  • Knowledge and/or interest in relevant areas of Swiss laws, i.e. banking law, contract law, web3 and regulatory matters
  • Conceptual thinker with strong analytical and technical skills as well as courage to provide clear guidance based on own assessments
  • Problemsolving ability and mental flexibility to find pragmatic solutions supporting the business with innovative products and business concepts
  • Goal and results oriented, able to work with mínimal direction and providing handson and practicable solutions (with a good commercial business sense)
  • English on a full working professional proficiency level

Our Benefits

  • Join a young and fastmoving scale up and digital asset bank with agile working environment and fast decision cycles
  • Freedom to own your decisions and take responsibility, full ownership of your function
  • An amazing, diverse, highly skilled, international and motivated team of professionals
  • Being at the forefront of regulatory innovation in the FinTech/DLT sector
  • The chance to be part of a movement shaping the future of our world's financial system
  • The opportunity to deal with legal challenges related to traditional as well as new technologies
  • Being part of the gateway for all legal and regulatory issues in a bank
If you're passionate about the technological innovation in a banking environment and about tackling the legal challenges of a technology-oriented bank, then we are pleased to receive your CV, motivation
- and reference letters.
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