Senior Legal Counsel

OpenZeppelin; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenZeppelin is a leading blockchain security company and open-source standards contributor. We seek a Senior Legal Counsel to manage its broad commercial contracting needs and coordinate with the Associate General Counsel on regulatory, IP, privacy, and compliance matters.

You will help balance commercial growth with legal risk across multiple jurisdictions in a remote, globally distributed team environment.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of relevant legal experience.

Responsibilities

• Draft, negotiate, and close a wide variety of agreements and manage the process behind all client and vendor agreements.
• Proactively provide risk-weighted advice balancing commercial upside against legal, financial, operational, and reputational risk.
• Collaborate with the General Counsel on IP strategy, licensing (open source focus), privacy, compliance, acquisitions, and other matters.
• Work across cross-functional teams as a business partner with Sales, Finance, Operations, HR and IT Security.
• Design and implement automated contracting processes and builds using AI and advanced tools.
• Lead staff trainings and compliance practices for a regulated and public company.

Job description

About us

OpenZeppelin is the security standard onchain finance is built on. Founded in 2015, our mission is to accelerate the world's transition to an open financial system, built on open standards and secured by rigorous research.

Our open-source Contract Libraries have facilitated over $35 trillion in onchain value and are used by 10 of the top 10 tokenized money market funds and 9 of the top 10 stablecoins by market cap. We combine AI-native security tooling with deep research and a decade of audit expertise to support leading institutions and crypto-native teams shaping the next generation of digital assets like DTCC, Fidelity, Coinbase, Uniswap, Aave, the Ethereum Foundation, and many more across the full secure development lifecycle.

Please note: Always refer to OpenZeppelin's official job page for the most accurate information about our open roles, as we have seen multiple third party job sites posting inaccurate information.

Senior Legal Counsel

OpenZeppelin is seeking an experienced and commercially-minded lawyer to support our wide array of legal matters at a growth-stage blockchain security company enabling the world to move on-chain. You’ll be a member of our dynamic operations team and report to OpenZeppelin’s Associate General Counsel, managing all legal operations and driving our commercial contracting process. You will also have the opportunity to advise on the wide-range of legal issues typical for a remote and global tech company, balancing legal issues with Company values and strategic objectives. This is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself at the intersection of blockchain technology, high-growth business operations and law.

What You’ll Do:

• Draft, negotiate, and close a wide variety of agreements and manage the process behind all client and vendor agreements. You will support all commercial and contractual matters and deal flow for OpenZeppelin
• Proactively provide risk-weighted advice to business leaders that succinctly balances commercial upside against corresponding legal, financial, operational, and reputational risk
• Collaborate with and support the General Counsel on intellectual property strategy and licensing (with a focus on open source issues), privacy, compliance, acquisitions, and other diverse matters
• Work across cross-functional teams as a business partner, including Sales, Finance, Operations, HR and IT Security
• Design and execute automated processes for contracting and complying with contractual obligations and building automations, using AI and advanced tools
• Design and execute staff trainings and compliance practices on a variety of topics, in line with the requirements of a regulated and publicly-traded organization
• Manage legal records and organize corporate governance processes for entities in multiple jurisdictions
• Tackle projects assigned to you to help the Company meet its goals and take ownership of projects that are of a personal interest to you

What You’ll Bring:

• 8-10 years of relevant legal