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title: 'Counsel at BitGo'
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# Counsel at BitGo

- **Company:** BitGo
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-11-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bitgo/jobs/8938306002

## Job description

BitGo (NYSE: BTGO) is the digital asset infrastructure company delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, stablecoins, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since 2013, BitGo has focused on accelerating the transition of the financial system to a digital asset economy. BitGo maintains a global presence and multiple regulated entities, including BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association, the first federally chartered digital asset trust bank owned by a publicly traded company. Today, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, financial institutions, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of investors worldwide. For more information, visit [www.bitgo.com](http://www.bitgo.com).

This role will require being full-time onsite at our New York City office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problem-solving.

We are seeking a proficient contracts attorney who is inquisitive, creative and practical. This attorney would be a demonstrated self-starter who is now looking for an environment to learn and to practice law on the cutting edge of digital assets and blockchain technology. This is a great opportunity for an attorney who looks to grow.

Responsibilities:

- Draft and negotiate a wide range of prime brokerage, trading, and commercial contracts, including master lending agreements, account control agreements, external client agreements, and more.
- Working closely with cross-functional teams to facilitate building, delivery, and marketing of new products.
- Supporting international expansion of custody, trading, settlement and related businesses.
- Managing legal and regulatory risks in a thoughtful and commercially practicable manner.
- Escalating issues to senior team members as appropriate.
- Pitching in whenever and wherever needed, even when not directly related to responsibilities described above.

Requirements:

- 4-6+ years of related law firm and/or in-house legal experience at a financial services or crypto company, ideally involving customer-facing sales, trading and/or custody.  Must have at least 2 years of experience advising or negotiating against institutional clients at a large law firm or bulge bracket bank.
- Ability to balance multiple tasks in accordance with changing deadlines and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to assess and balance legal risks against business interests.
- Interest in blockchain and digital assets.
- Flexible, “can-do” attitude and willingness to learn.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience advising on legal data privacy and security matters, including compliance with relevant regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
- Understanding of the laws and regulation applicable to (i) transaction settlement, clearing, and securities lending, (ii) securities and derivatives regulation, and (iii) regulations relating to extensions of credit such as Regs T, X and U.
- Experience with employment law matters, including drafting employment agreements and advising on HR issues.
- Knowledge of intellectual property matters, including software licensing and open-source considerations.

Why Join BitGo?

Disrupting an industry takes vision, innovation, passion, technical chops, drive to deliver, collaboration, and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of ownership, craftsmanship, and open communication. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving, and who want risks to be part of the team that changes the world’s financial markets.

Here are some of the benefits* of working at BitGo:

- Competitive base salary, bonus and stock options
- 100% company paid health insurance for employee, partner and dependents
- Up to 4% 401k company match
- Paid parental leave, Paid vacation
- Free custom lunches, dinners and snacks
- Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
- Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment

Pay Transparency Notice: Depending upon your leveling and location, the compensation for this role averages between $220,000 - $240,000** USD base salary. Equity, an annual performance bonus and the benefits outlined above are also a part of this role's package.

*Benefits may vary based on location.

**Salary and title are commensurate with experience.

## About BitGo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: BitGo is a digital asset infrastructure and financial services company providing secure custody, staking, trading, and stablecoin solutions for institutional investors and builders.
- **Entity Type**: Private – raised $384.3M in total funding (last venture round in 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Mike Belshe, Ben Davenport, Will O'Brien, Bill Lee

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Digital asset custody, blockchain infrastructure, financial services (cryptocurrency)
- Target customers: Institutional investors, enterprises, fintechs, and asset managers (B2B)
- Mission: "Accelerating the transition of the financial system to the digital asset economy" [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/)

## Products & Services
- **BitGo Custody**: Multi-signature hot and cold wallet custody services, with non-custodial and custodial configurations – secures over $100B in digital assets.
- **BitGo Prime**: Prime brokerage services for institutional trading, including OTC and electronic trading.
- **BitGo Staking**: Staking infrastructure for proof-of-stake assets.
- **Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)**: BitGo serves as the sole custodian for bitcoin backing the WBTC token, enabling Bitcoin liquidity on Ethereum.
- **Stablecoin Issuance**: Issuer of SoFiUSD (for SoFi Bank) and custodian for USD1 (World Liberty Financial) and frxUSD (fractional reserve stablecoin).
- **Blockchain Security APIs**: APIs for transaction building, signing, and settlement.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $384.3M; assets under custody – over $100B in digital assets; secures ~20% of all on-chain Bitcoin transactions by value [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitgo)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Redpoint Ventures (led Series A), Galaxy Digital and Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (led Series B), Valor Equity Partners, Craft Ventures, and other investors.
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired Brassica (2024), Harbor (2020), Hedge (2019), HeightZero (2023), and Lumina (2020). However, headcount declined ~75% YoY to 65 employees as of early 2026, though the company has 51 active job postings across engineering, sales, compliance, and trust administration [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitgo) [Greenhouse](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bitgo)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest independent digital asset custodian** – trusted by institutions and issuers of major tokens (WBTC, stablecoins).
- **Multisignature security model** – keys split between custodian and wallet owner, with both hot and cold storage options.
- **Regulatory trust infrastructure** – operates as a qualified custodian and trust company in multiple jurisdictions.
- **10+ years of operational history** in the volatile crypto market, surviving multiple cycles.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening institutional-grade prime services (trading, lending, settlement).
- Expanding stablecoin issuance and custody partnerships (SoFi, World Liberty Financial).
- Growing international presence with offices in 9 countries (US, Canada, UK, Singapore, India, UAE, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan).
- Leveraging acquisitions (Brassica, Harbor) to offer tokenization and transfer agent services.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture values**: Open communication, craftsmanship, accountability, collaboration, client-first [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/company/careers/)
- **Benefits**: Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance; competitive compensation with stock options; 401k plan; top-end computer equipment [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/company/careers/)
- **Work environment**: Global, distributed team; hybrid/remote flexibility (multiple remote roles listed); offices in Palo Alto, New York, Toronto, London, Singapore, Dubai, and others.
- **Engineering culture**: Polyglot stack, focus on security and blockchain protocols; strong hiring from Google, Amazon, Coinbase, and Waterloo.
- **Notable**: Despite recent headcount reduction, the company is actively hiring for engineering, sales, compliance, and trust roles – a sign of strategic refocusing.

## Sources
1. [bitgo.com](https://www.bitgo.com/)
2. [bitgo.com/careers](https://www.bitgo.com/company/careers/)
3. [bitgo.com/about](https://www.bitgo.com/company/about-us/)
4. [Greenhouse Jobs](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bitgo)
5. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitgo)

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