Senior Legal Counsel

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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OpenZeppelin

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2015

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

💰 Seed Round on 2018-01

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

OpenZeppelin is a leading provider of open-source tools and services that secure and streamline smart contract development. They offer a comprehensive suite of solutions, including a secure smart contract library, an interactive smart contract generator (Contracts Wizard), and a defender cloud service for monitoring, automating, and upgrading smart contracts. OpenZeppelin's services include smart contract security audits and emergency response teams to address vulnerabilities promptly. Their ecosystem stack accelerates developer onboarding and ensures high security standards are met in decentralized applications. Trusted by major decentralized projects, OpenZeppelin is a standard-bearer in the blockchain space, focusing on security, scalability, and privacy in smart contract and onchain applications development.

📋 Description

• Draft, negotiate, and close a wide variety of agreements and manage the process behind all client and vendor agreements • Support all commercial and contractual matters and deal flow for OpenZeppelin • Provide risk-weighted advice to business leaders balancing commercial upside against legal, financial, operational, and reputational risk • Support the General Counsel on intellectual property strategy and licensing, open source issues, privacy, compliance, acquisitions, and other matters • Collaborate with Sales, Finance, Operations, HR, and IT & Security • Design and execute automated contracting and compliance processes using AI and advanced tools • Design and execute staff trainings and compliance practices for a regulated and publicly-traded organization • Manage legal records and corporate governance processes for entities in multiple jurisdictions • Lead assigned projects and take ownership of projects aligned with personal interests

🎯 Requirements

• 8-10 years of relevant legal experience, including in-house experience at a high-growth company in the blockchain and digital assets space • Demonstrated experience and comprehensive knowledge in drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide variety of commercial agreements in the blockchain space, including open source expertise • Highly analytical with impeccable attention to detail • Creative problem-solving and negotiation skills with a pragmatic, business-minded approach to legal analyses and risk assessments • Comfortable with high levels of responsibility and self-direction, with excellent follow-through and ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously • Expert verbal and written communication skills, including explaining complicated topics to those without legal training • A law degree and a license to practice law in at least one jurisdiction

🏖️ Benefits

• Meet your teammates at company gatherings around the world 😎 • Enjoy the flexibility of fully remote work 🌎 • Take the time you need with flexible time off 🏝 • 8 weeks of paid leave for primary caregivers • 4 weeks of paid leave for secondary caregivers • One-time $3,600 baby bonus 💙 • Up to $500 in equipment support for a home office 🪑 • Medical insurance 🏥 • Learning and development opportunities 🧠 • Monthly stipend for a preferred co-working space 💻