Commercial Legal Counsel

About Us OpenFX is on a mission to move money as freely as data, unrestricted by time zones, banking hours, or legacy systems. We are building the infrastructure that will power the next generation of cross-border payment systems for institutions. The team's execution has been exceptional, and we're scaling at a remarkable pace. Our stellar early team brings experience at companies such as J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, FalconX, PayPal, Affirm, Polygon, Kraken, Nium, Visa, Mastercard and others. We're backed by Accel, Lightspeed, M13, Northzone, Pantera, and other top-tier investors. About the Role As Commercial Legal Counsel, you will run the commercial deal desk end-to-end and be the lead lawyer supporting OpenFX’s Go to Market team. You will create new global contractual frameworks to support our expanding set of products and markets, create templates for our partnership arrangements with local financial institutions, build and manage a Contract Management System, and expand our processes leveraging AI to enable the Legal team to rapidly and efficiently review and negotiate agreements and onboard new clients. What You'll Do Own the full commercial contracting lifecycle for our global customer relationships. Build and maintain the commercial legal playbook - templates, fallback positions, approval thresholds, and escalation paths so standard deals close without bespoke lawyering. Create systems and processes enabling the team to leverage AI for first-pass contract review, issues lists, and clause comparison, and build reusable AI workflows that compress cycle times across the whole legal function. Advise the team on deal structure, pricing and fee terms, service levels, liability and indemnity positions, and settlement and funds-flow mechanics. Partner with regulatory Legal, Compliance, and Product on how regulatory requirements land in contract terms and customer-facing documentation. Serve as the lead Counsel advising the global Go to Market team. What You Should B