General Counsel

Role Overview

• Build 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 the questions, direct their research, challenge their conclusions, and synthesize their 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 and licensing, operating, collaboration, and enforcement frameworks
• Manage relationships with external counsel across the function's substantive areas
• Design the function's operating architecture driven by AI and accountability framework — including intake, triage, matter tracking, team structure, leadership reporting, and AI tooling embedded across workflows
• Run the day-to-day legal operations pipeline — prioritize the team's work, review output, raise quality standards, and institute reusable templates and playbooks
• Develop and maintain a coherent regulatory strategy that anticipates the evolving DeFi and TradFi landscape, translating regulatory risk into clear organizational guidance
• 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 governing digital assets, securities, and financial services

Requirements

• 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
• Proven track record of building or scaling a legal function in a high-growth environment
• Actively uses AI tooling within legal workflows

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Professional development opportunities