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Jobs / General Counsel in United Kingdom
6 days ago
Starknetfoundation·6 days ago
6 days ago

Head of Legal (Interim)

Remote UKFull-timeRemoteSenior · 10-15 years

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About this role

About the Role

We're looking for an interim Head of Legal to step into a General Counsel–level role with broad scope across corporate legal, strategic advisory, and treasury/TradFi matters. This is a senior, high-impact engagement - you'll oversee the legal team, act as a strategic partner to leadership on key initiatives, advise on upcoming product launches, and bring hands-on experience with traditional finance legal work.

What You'll Do

  • Provide strategic legal direction on major company initiatives while overseeing and managing the legal team to ensure continuity and consistency of legal operations

  • Advise on legal and structural considerations as we build, launch, and potentially spin out new products (regulatory considerations, entity and incentives structuring, employee contractual arrangements).

  • Act as a trusted legal advisor to senior leadership, with regular 1:1 engagement with key executives including the Executive Director

  • Apply your strong traditional finance legal expertise to lead legal work related to treasury operations, including trading documentation, derivatives agreements, and negotiations.

  • Provide day-to-day legal counsel across corporate, commercial (including IP), employment and operational matters.

  • Support cross-functional teams (Product, Growth, Operations) in integrating legal and compliance considerations into planning and execution

  • Ensure legal policies, controls, and governance practices stay fit for purpose, adjusting them as needed

  • Represent Legal at Board meetings as required

Who You Are

  • An established Legal expert and Leader with significant experience operating at General Counsel or senior legal leadership level

  • Strong combination of Web3/crypto and traditional finance (TradFi) legal experience

  • Expertise across a wide and diverse array of legal disciplines, including regulatory, employment, product, financial, and commercial/IP

  • Track record of managing or overseeing a legal team, ideally through periods of change or high growth

  • Experience advising on corporate structuring matters, including entity formation, spin-outs, or similar arrangements

  • Comfortable representing legal at Board level and communicating with senior executives and stakeholders

  • Able to operate independently in a remote, globally distributed organization, with enough working-hours overlap to collaborate closely with an European-based team

  • Available to start on short notice and flexible to support a structured handover at the start and end of the engagement

The Logistics

  • Full time, short-term engagement (6–8 months)

  • Flexible on engagement type (contract, fixed-term)

  • Competitive pay

  • Remote-first, with some overlap with European working hours required

H1B sponsor likely
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