Pyth Data Association is seeking an experienced Legal Counsel with a strong background in crypto, fintech, and financial regulation, particularly within Switzerland. The ideal candidate will provide comprehensive legal and regulatory support across international operations, ensuring compliance with applicable laws, effective risk management, and strong internal governance.
This role requires a legal expert with hands-on experience navigating Swiss financial regulations, SRO memberships (e.g., VQF), and AML frameworks, alongside a strong understanding of international regulatory environments (US, EU).
Key Responsibilities
Contractual & Commercial Work
- Draft, review, and negotiate agreements, including: Grant agreements - Service Level Agreements - Token agreements - Terms & Conditions for online platforms and rewards programs Support commercial teams with legally sound and business-oriented solutions.
Regulatory & Compliance
- Advise on Swiss and international (EU, US) crypto, fintech, and financial regulations.
- Manage and maintain compliance with SRO memberships and AML regulations.
- Develop, review, and maintain internal compliance policies (AML/KYC, data privacy, conflict of interest, internal controls, etc.).
- Liaise with regulators, auditors, and external legal advisors where needed.
Governance & Risk Management
- Support internal governance frameworks, including policy creation and regular updates.
- Assess and manage legal and regulatory risks aligned with business objectives and the risk profile of the crypto industry.
- Contribute to audit and internal control processes to ensure ongoing regulatory readiness.
- Maintain and organize the company's legal database, contract repository, and agreement calendar.
External Counsel & Research
- Conduct regulatory research and provide concise internal guidance.
- Manage external legal counsel effectively, balancing quality, efficiency, and cost.
- Stay up to date on evolving crypto, fintech, and financial regulatory developments.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Law degree and bar admission in Switzerland or an equivalent European jurisdiction.
- Minimum 5-6 years of post-qualification experience in financial services, fintech, or crypto.
- Proven expertise in Swiss financial and crypto regulation, SROs (e.g., VQF), and AML compliance.
- Experience working in or advising audited companies with structured internal control systems.
- Familiarity with data privacy, contract law, and governance frameworks.
- Experience managing external counsel and regulatory relationships.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to maintain internal legal processes and documentation.
- Strong communication skills in English.
- Experience in the financial data industry is an advantage.
- Understanding of the legal structure of financial data and products, including the intellectual property (IP) of financial data across various instruments, is a plus
Personal Attributes
- Strategic mindset with pragmatic, solution-oriented approach.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-risk, and evolving regulatory environment.
- Independent, reliable, and able to manage multiple priorities effectively.
- High ethical standards and sound judgment in business decision-making.
About Pyth Network
Pyth Network, incubated in 2021 within Jump Crypto with leadership from Michael Cahill and a team of market data specialists with hubs in San Francisco and New York, provides high-frequency oracle infrastructure for DeFi. Its design aggregates first-party pricing from trading firms and exchanges that publish directly on-chain, delivering low-latency feeds for equities, FX, crypto and commodities across 80+ chains via pull oracles and Hermes. Developers use Pyth for perpetuals, lending and risk pricing that requires sub-second updates and confidence intervals. Headquartered with a distributed contributor set, Pyth is governed as open infrastructure with broad publisher participation. Expect a data and markets-focused culture that values feed accuracy, latency engineering and enabling DeFi protocols to price risk reliably at real-market speed.