- Define and lead an interdisciplinary legal function spanning regulatory, capital tokenization, business contracts, complex IP, and legal operations.
- Act as strategic legal partner to senior internal experts and external counsel, set questions, direct research, challenge conclusions, and synthesize inputs into board-ready risk positions.
- Work with internal senior legal experts and external counsel on the protocol's legal architecture design.
- Design, implement, and enforce the legal aspects of the Sky Agent Framework across entity structure, IP, licensing, and operating frameworks.
- Manage relationships with external counsel across substantive areas.
- Design the function's operating architecture driven by AI, including intake, triage, matter tracking, and reporting.
- Run the day-to-day legal operations pipeline.
- Develop and maintain a regulatory strategy that anticipates the evolving DeFi and TradFi landscape.
- Act as the expert legal advisor on regulatory exposure and lead material interactions with regulators.
- Own key regulatory relationships across relevant jurisdictions, with particular depth in US frameworks.
Risk ManagementStakeholder management