General Counsel

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🕒 June 2

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Sky

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

💰 Series unknown on 2022-01

Crypto • Web 3

Sky is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol and ecosystem built around the USDS stablecoin and the SKY governance token. It offers non-custodial savings, staking, token rewards, vaults, trading, and governance tools accessible via the Sky. money web app, enabling users to earn yields, participate in on-chain governance, and upgrade legacy Maker tokens (DAI and MKR) to USDS and SKY. Launched as an evolution of MakerDAO, Sky emphasizes scalability, user control of funds, modular “Sky Stars” projects, and community-driven decentralized governance.

📋 Description

• Build and lead an interdisciplinary legal function spanning regulatory, capital tokenization, business contracts, complex IP, and legal operations • Act as strategic legal partner to senior internal experts and external counsel — set the questions, direct their research, challenge their conclusions, and synthesize their inputs into board-ready risk positions • Work with internal senior legal experts and external counsel on the protocol's legal architecture design • Design, implement, and enforce the legal aspects of the Sky Agent Framework — across entity structure, IP and licensing, operating, collaboration, and enforcement frameworks • Manage relationships with external counsel across the function's substantive areas • Design the function's operating architecture driven by AI and accountability framework — including intake, triage, matter tracking, team structure, leadership reporting, and AI tooling embedded across workflows • Run the day-to-day legal operations pipeline — prioritize the team's work, review output, raise quality standards, and institute reusable templates and playbooks • Develop and maintain a coherent regulatory strategy that anticipates the evolving DeFi and TradFi landscape, translating regulatory risk into clear organizational guidance • Act as the expert legal advisor on regulatory exposure and lead material interactions with regulators • Own key regulatory relationships across relevant jurisdictions, with particular depth in US frameworks governing digital assets, securities, and financial services

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years post-qualification legal experience, with at least 3 years in a senior legal leadership role (General Counsel, Deputy GC, or equivalent) • 5+ years of US regulatory experience • 3+ years of hands-on DeFi/crypto legal experience • Proven track record of building or scaling a legal function in a high-growth environment • Actively uses AI tooling within legal workflows

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work hours • Paid time off • Professional development opportunities