Senior Commercial Counsel

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Ondo Finance

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51 - 200 employees

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

💰 Initial Coin Offering - Ondo Finance on 2024-01

Crypto • Fintech • Finance

Ondo is a company building institutional-grade onchain financial infrastructure and products that bridge traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi). Its offerings include tokenized public securities (Ondo Stocks) that make public securities freely transferable and usable in DeFi, USDY (a permissionless yield-bearing stablecoin), and OUSG (an institutional product offering exposure to short-term US Treasuries with 24/7 instant minting and redemptions). Ondo emphasizes compliance, institutional-grade security, third-party audits, and partnerships with asset managers and regulated service providers. The company’s Nexus technology enables instant minting and redemption for tokenized US Treasuries and stablecoins and supports omnichain issuance and distribution. Ondo works with partners like Broadridge, J. P. Morgan, Mastercard, Ripple, and asset managers to bring voting and cross-border redemption capabilities to tokenized assets.

📋 Description

• Serve as primary legal partner to business development, partnerships, marketing, operations, and other commercial teams • Draft, review, and negotiate strategic partnership, distribution, technology, licensing, vendor, service, referral, marketing, data, and confidentiality agreements • Lead complex commercial negotiations from initial structuring through execution and renewal • Advise stakeholders on contractual, regulatory, reputational, and counterparty risks • Support relationships with financial institutions, fintech companies, blockchain protocols, exchanges, wallets, custodians, market makers, technology providers, and ecosystem partners • Develop pragmatic solutions balancing legal protection with commercial objectives and execution speed • Advise marketing and business teams on promotional campaigns, partner communications, public claims, and related commercial arrangements • Partner with compliance and regulatory counsel on securities, financial promotions, anti-money laundering, data protection, licensing, and geographic restrictions • Develop and maintain contract templates, negotiation playbooks, approval processes, and scalable commercial legal workflows • Provide training and guidance on contracting, negotiation, and risk management • Manage outside counsel and specialist advisers • Support the AGC Commercial and senior legal personnel on strategic transactions and business priorities

🎯 Requirements

• JD degree from an accredited U.S. law school • 5–8+ years of legal experience at a major law firm and/or a high-growth blockchain, fintech, financial services, or technology company • Significant experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements • Strong understanding of commercial contracting principles, including liability, indemnification, intellectual property, data use, confidentiality, service levels, termination rights, and regulatory allocation • Experience advising business development, partnerships, marketing, sales, operations, or other commercial teams • Strong commercial judgment and ability to provide clear, practical advice amid competing business and legal considerations • Ability to lead negotiations independently and engage credibly with senior internal stakeholders and sophisticated counterparties • Understanding of the blockchain industry and commercial relationships supporting digital-asset or financial-services businesses • Familiarity with securities, anti-money laundering, financial promotions, data protection, and other relevant financial-services regulations • Excellent drafting, negotiation, analytical, and communication skills • Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple transactions and deadlines simultaneously • Comfortable operating independently in a fast-moving and ambiguous environment • Experience with tokenized assets, institutional financial products, or international commercial arrangements is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation including salary, future token rights, and/or equity (according to your preferences) • Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) • Flexible vacation policy (PTO) • Remote-first team across many countries • Opportunity to help shape the company’s vision, culture, and design practices • A+ colleagues and best-in-class investors