ABOUT KAMINO Kamino's mission is to create liquidity and utility for every asset. We want the world's best investments to be available through the financial platforms people already trust, and we want investors to be able to borrow against what they own when they need liquidity, instead of having to sell. Today, the most valuable assets in the world are often the least useful to own. Trillions of dollars sit in private markets, behind high minimums and holding periods that can run for years. Tokenization is starting to move these assets onto shared, programmable infrastructure, but putting an asset onchain is only the first step. To be useful, it still needs distribution, compliance, servicing, credit and liquidity. Kamino already runs the credit and liquidity engine at scale. It is the largest credit protocol on Solana and the largest credit platform for real-world assets onchain, with more than $650 billion in cumulative transaction volume and more than $20 billion in loans originated. Now we are building the rest of that system for institutions. Kamino recently named Yieldstreet co-founder Michael Weisz as CEO and is building a new HQ in New York, alongside the asset managers and financial platforms that will shape this market. Almost none of that market exists yet, and we intend to build it. Legal & Compliance | New York, NY | Full-time | Four days in office | Reports to the CEO THE OPPORTUNITY Kamino is hiring its first General Counsel to lead legal and compliance globally, build the U.S. operating foundation, and hire the legal and compliance team over the next 6–12 months. Kamino is expanding in the United States and building a team in New York to lead this next phase. We are looking for a General Counsel who will own Kamino's global legal and compliance function and turn that ambition into an executable operating model. As General Counsel, you will be accountable for legal and compliance matters across the globe. Your immediate focus will be establishing Kamino's U.S. operating foundation, while setting the global legal strategy and overseeing regulatory matters outside the U.S. This is a build-with-product role, not a pure sign-off function. Working directly with the CEO and leaders across product, engineering, business development and operations, you will shape institutional products and partnerships from inception and turn regulatory sophistication into a commercial advantage. Within your first 6–12 months, you will begin building the legal and compliance team that will scale with Kamino. WHAT YOU'LL DO GLOBAL LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE LEADERSHIP - Serve as Kamino's chief legal officer and principal legal adviser to the CEO, leadership team and the Foundation. - Own the global legal and compliance function across all Kamino entities and jurisdictions, including corporate, commercial, regulatory, intellectual property, employment, privacy and disputes. - Set Kamino's global regulatory strategy, coordinating U.S. work with frameworks such as MiCA and with other key markets. - Establish and oversee Kamino's global compliance program, including AML, sanctions, risk assessment, policies and monitoring. - Manage legal risk, disputes and any regulatory inquiries or investigations worldwide. - Own the legal and compliance budget, and select and manage external counsel and regulatory advisers across jurisdictions. BUILDING THE LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE TEAM - Design the target structure of Kamino's legal and compliance organization, aligned to the company's product, geographic and institutional roadmap. - Begin hiring within the first 6–12 months, prioritizing the roles Kamino needs most (for example, compliance, product and regulatory counsel, and commercial counsel). - Recruit, develop and lead a high-performing team, and set the standards, tools and ways of working the function operates by. - Decide what to build in-house and what to keep with external counsel as Kamino scales. U.S. LEGAL ARCHITECTURE AND GOVERNANCE - Design Kamino's U.S. legal and regulatory operating model, including entity roles, legal posture and the approval process for new products. - Partner with executive leadership to develop and refine the U.S. roadmap in line with Kamino's overall strategy, with legal and regulatory considerations built into planning from the outset. - Advise where Kamino should operate as infrastructure, where third parties must assume regulated or managerial responsibilities, and what Kamino should deliberately avoid. PRODUCT ROADMAP AND INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGY - Embed with product and engineering on lending markets, vaults, leverage products, points and rewards programs, token launches, tokenized real-world assets and other new capabilities. - Translate regulatory risk into concrete product design choices before products are built, rather than layering legal review on after decisions have been made. - Create repeatable legal and diligence processes for onboarding asset managers, curators, distribution platforms and supporting service providers. - Lead or support negotiations involving integrations, institutional pilots, data, technology, custody, servicing, tokenization, credit and liquidity. SECURITIES, COMMODITIES AND REGULATORY ANALYSIS - Apply the Howey and Reves tests, related case law and CFTC jurisdictional principles to evaluate whether tokens, yield products or trading features could be characterized as securities or commodity derivatives under U.S. law. - Track and interpret federal legislation, SEC and CFTC rulemaking and guidance, state frameworks, and executive or agency policy affecting DeFi, staking, stablecoins, custody and tokenized assets, alongside major developments in other jurisdictions. - Assess money-transmitter licensing, BitLicense-style regimes and other state-level requirements for Kamino's operating entities, and equivalent licensing requirements in other markets. REGULATORY ENGAGEMENT, COMPLIANCE AND PO