Senior Legal Counsel – Remote, Commercial & IP

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

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.