Hiring: Assistant General Counsel, Digital Assets & DeFi Company: S&P Global Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:42:42 Employment Type: Contract Target Skills & Keywords : Blockchain, DeFi, LLM About the job Experience: •6+ years’ legal experience, including possibly in an in-house legal environment, with a focus on commercial contract negotiation and drafting. Required Skills: •Join a Best-In-Class Global Legal, Compliance, Risk & Government Affairs Team committed to delivering timely, practical and actionable advice to advance our business and safeguard our reputation, people and assets. Thie position reports to the Associate General Counsel and Managing Director for the Americas. •Serve as a trusted legal advisor to product, innovation, and commercial teams on emerging DeFi, tokenization, and blockchain initiatives. •Help shape legal frameworks for index construction and licensing in decentralized and tokenized markets. •Evaluate novel business models, protocols, and partnerships involving digital assets, oracle networks, and blockchain infrastructure. •Anticipate regulatory and legal developments affecting DeFi and translate them into actionable business guidance. •Be responsible for structuring, drafting, negotiating and advising on complex commercial agreements across DeFi, digital assets, licensing indices for use with financial products (including digital assets), index data subscription and distribution, inbound data and the deployment of blockchain technology. •Collaborate closely with legal, product, technology, and commercial leaders to provide practical, forward-looking, strategic and legal advice on matters pertaining to emerging products and business initiatives. •Support compliance with review and implementation of applicable policies and procedures (e.g., confidentiality, insider trading, and compliance). Qualifications: •J.D. or LLM and admitted to practice law in any of the states listed within the location. •Demonstrated interest in and familiarity with financial services and investment products, decentralized finance, digital asset regulation, digital asset ecosystems, blockchain infrastructure, and tokenized assets. •Operational familiarity with data licensing, intellectual property principles, business technology. •Excellent drafting, negotiating, and communication (both written and spoken) skills. •Capability to manage high-volume, complex environments with sound judgment and adaptability. •Demonstrated capacity to recognize and accommodate internal and external client needs while adequately protecting S&P DJI’s interests and mitigating liability risk. •This role is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States. •Have you taken time out for caring responsibilities and are now looking to return to work? As part of our Return to Work initiative, Restart, we are encouraging enthusiastic and talented returners to apply, and will actively support your return to the workplace. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!