General Counsel (Senior), Remote USA

Unit 410 is a small, senior team of infrastructure engineers powering some of the largest proof-of-stake and validating operations in the world.  We’ve long believed in the potential of programmable money and we are excited to continue pushing forward the state of the art through proof-of-stake networks.  Done right, proof-of-stake networks offer scaling, efficiency, and governance improvements over existing layer 1 protocols. But this comes with novel security challenges.  

We’re often the first participants in new networks and help them design and scale for success. We secure a large amount of these assets and contribute back open source tooling, architectures, and designs that help our networks mature.

We enable the largest stakeholders to use their crypto in secure and novel ways. 

• Day #1 Support: We partner with founders and sophisticated investors to provide full support for interacting with novel crypto assets from the day that they launch.
• Articulate Risks: We provide research and recommendations so that these holders can effectively manage their risks and rewards.
• Crypto Key Generation & Encryption: We build secure and flexible encryption solutions that enable our customers to safely interact with these novel assets and networks and prepare for emerging use cases.
• Team & Culture: We prioritize reducing single points of failure, a healthy work / life balance, and challenge each other to hold an extremely high technical bar. This is core to our DNA with an extremely technical leadership team.

We are a small tight knit team hoping to add an experienced General Counsel to bring operational excellence and guidance to our team.  We have a complicated business that is growing and presents a set of unique challenges for you.

Who You Are

• You enjoy being on the front lines and owning the development of strategies for evaluating complex risk working with business stakeholders to drive decision and execution of the outcome.
• Proven track record of learning and adapting quickly, thinking rigorously, and working proactively and independently.
• Desire to create thorough, responsive legal processes that balance the need to protect a company with the necessity of moving quickly in a small team and growing business.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate a variety of complex agreements with customers, vendors, and one-off relationships.
• Provide legal and strategic business advice to help develop a comprehensive, long-term approach to our business.
• Ability to lead and manage numerous deals and meet tight deadlines when necessary to achieve business objectives articulating trade-offs and driving to completion.
• Support our compliance with applicable laws and regulations, in close collaboration with colleagues in finance and operations.

Requirements

• J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) and membership in the bar for at least one US state.
• 7-12+ years of attorney experience (either in-house and/or at a law firm), with a background in technology transactions.
• Strong interest and passion for / in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
• Experience drafting and advising on complex agreements with technology companies and/or financial institutions and leading contract negotiations.
• ​​Background in fintech and/or cryptocurrency/blockchain and experience with the legal issues arising from fintech and/or cryptocurrency/blockchain applications.
• Ability to present complex compliance and regulatory issues in a clear and concise manner and provide succinct and practical legal advice.

Unit 410 is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Unit 410 does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
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