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Counsel
Company | Alchemy |
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Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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Salary | $225000 – $275000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | JD |
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Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- 3+ years of legal experience, preferably with a mix of BigLaw experience and in-house experience at a high-growth tech company
- JD from an accredited law school
- Member of a U.S. state bar in good standing, preferably in California or New York
- Strong track record of cross-functional partnership across teams (BD, Finance, Product, Engineering) to align on creative solutions
- Passion for crypto, blockchain technologies, DeFi, DAOs, and/or NFTs
- Collaborative team players with relentless optimism in the face of obstacles
- Self-starters with a “pick-up-a-broom” mentality, able to identify problems and take ownership to improve them
Responsibilities
- Be an outstanding collaborator with colleagues in sales, product, engineering, finance/accounting, operations, corporate development, equity, and other areas
- Draft and negotiate agreements with strategic customers, blockchain protocols, partners, and software providers
- Develop and update agreements, website terms, and policies, and other scalable processes to help our teams to move faster
- Counsel our product and engineering teams on new product launches and help translate regulations including sanctions, securities law, money transmission laws
- Coordinate with our marketing team to review and develop scalable guidelines on promotional materials and contests
- Support our corporate development efforts and oversee strategic acquisitions
- Stay current with global regulatory frameworks, and support engagement with regulators & lawmakers, notice & comment letters, and review of draft legislation
- Oversee corporate structuring, including domestic and international entity formation to meet business needs
- Advise on global data protection laws, including GDPR and CCPA, ensuring that the company’s data handling practices comply with privacy regulations
- Advise our People team on employee policies, and other employment law issues
- Continue to build our patent and trademark portfolio, lead trademark enforcement efforts, and counsel engineering teams on open-source strategy
- Advise our Alchemy Ventures team on investment documents (SAFEs, token warrants)
Preferred Qualifications
- familiarity with financial & securities regulations
- Web3 experience
- startup experience
- experience founding a company or building side projects