Senior Commercial Counsel

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $186k - $213.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Paxos

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

📦 Logistics

💰 Corporate Round - Paxos on 2022-01

Consulting • Legal • Logistics

Paxos is a regulated blockchain infrastructure and trust company that builds enterprise-grade digital asset solutions, including issued stablecoins, custody, and crypto brokerage services. The company provides stablecoin issuance and redemption (e. g. , USDP, PYUSD, USDG, PAXG), payments and payout rails, and custody/trading infrastructure for institutions, emphasizing regulatory oversight, transparency, and compliance across jurisdictions. Paxos partners with major enterprises to enable payments and tokenization while operating under trust charters and payments licenses.

📋 Description

• Partner with business teams to close deals efficiently while protecting Paxos' interests • Translate legal, commercial, technology, and regulatory considerations into clear, actionable recommendations • Create leverage through templates, playbooks, and process improvements • Manage in-house commercial, corporate, and other legal matters • Draft, negotiate, and close complex commercial, SaaS, technology, vendor, licensing, data, and strategic-partnership agreements • Manage deals from term sheet through signature • Advise senior finance and business development professionals on deal structure, risk allocation, approval paths, and practical options • Keep cross-functional stakeholders aligned on priorities, decisions, tradeoffs, and next steps • Build and improve scalable contract processes, clause libraries, playbooks, and self-service resources • Identify root causes and design sustainable solutions and process improvements • Use AI and other technology for legal review, drafting, research, and workflow management • Contribute across broader in-house matters as business needs evolve

🎯 Requirements

• 6–10 years of commercial legal experience in technology transactions, SaaS agreements, corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, funds, and/or finance at a top-tier law firm or high-growth technology company • Experience leading complex commercial negotiations from initial term sheet through final execution • Sound judgment on when to hold firm and when to compromise • Commercial mindset and understanding of practical business issues • Ability to weigh legal risk against business objectives • Experience working cross-functionally on multiple projects under tight deadlines • Excellent written and verbal communication and negotiation skills • Ability to explain complex legal issues clearly to non-lawyers • Efficient and judicious use of appropriate AI tools • Sound judgment about when human review is essential • Experience with a wide variety of in-house legal matters, including employment issues, stock option plans, and intellectual property (might also have) • Experience in a hyper-growth, tech-focused company (might also have) • Strong interest in blockchain technology and its evolving regulatory landscape (might also have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Bonuses based on individual and company performance • 15% annual salary bonus opportunity