Senior Legal Counsel
About the Role
Are you ready to own the commercial-contracting engine of a company rebuilding global financial infrastructure? The agreements that carry it get written once. We're hiring the lawyer who leads them.
Key Responsibilities
Own the commercial-contracting engine: draft, negotiate, and manage the full lifecycle of SaaS and technology-services agreements, institutional partner deals, vendor and procurement contracts, NDAs, and data agreements.
First-line review and sign-off on day-to-day matters, partnering with the GC on high-stakes and novel deals.
Build the infrastructure, not just the documents: stand up scalable contract infrastructure from the ground up — templates, playbooks, an intake/CLM process, and clear turnaround SLAs the whole company can move against.
Bridge the deal to the people who deliver it: pull operations, compliance, security, product, and engineering into negotiations to pressure-test commitments, then translate executed terms into clear, owned obligations.
Flex across corporate, employment, insurance, IP, and the full in-house portfolio: as the second lawyer on the team, you will work across matters that arise in the life of a startup and build your generalist skills.
Manage outside counsel and legal risk: own delegated outside-counsel matters, scope and control legal spend, and review marketing and published content before it ships.
Requirements
At least 5 years of relevant experience owning complex commercial and SaaS/technology-services agreements end to end, from negotiation through executed obligations
Prior in-house experience, or experience working closely with in-house teams
JD + active bar licence
Cross-functional by instinct: experience partnering with security, compliance, and engineering stakeholders
T-shaped and flexible — commercial contracts is your deep specialty, but you step into other work when the moment needs it
Clear communicator, low-ego, and energised by a fast-moving early stage
Bonus: experience negotiating agreements for software used by regulated financial institutions
No crypto experience required; curiosity about on-chain finance is a plus
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision healthcare
401(k)
Generous PTO