General Counsel
New
S
Sky EcosystemDeFi / Fintech
Remote / United StatesFull-TimeManager
Salary not disclosed
Apply NowOpens the employer's application page
Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years post-qualification legal experience, with at least 3 years in a senior legal leadership role (General Counsel, Deputy GC, or equivalent); 5+ years of US regulatory experience; 3+ years of hands-on DeFi/crypto legal experience
- Required Skills
- Risk ManagementStakeholder management
Requirements
- 7+ years post-qualification legal experience.
- At least 3 years in a senior legal leadership role (General Counsel, Deputy GC, or equivalent).
- 5+ years of US regulatory experience.
- 3+ years of hands-on DeFi/crypto legal experience.
- Proven track record of building or scaling a legal function in a high-growth environment.
- Actively uses AI tooling within legal workflows.
- Ability to design functions and translate operating intent into effective systems.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with experience in lean, autonomous environments.
- Analytical skillset with ability to produce clear metrics and management reporting.
Responsibilities
- 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.
View Full Description & ApplyYou'll be redirected to the employer's site
