General Counsel
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Sei Foundation
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12 days ago
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Description
Legal Ownership & Scope
- •Own all legal, regulatory, and compliance functions across the foundation and its ecosystem activities, including non-profit compliance, contracts, grants, investments, partnerships, and policy work
- •Serve as the legal lead on token-related activities, including grants, investments, and structuring decisions
- •Lead the transition of Blockchain Association and Digital Chamber policy work into SDF, including the structural and compliance implications of operating under non-profit status
Hands-On Execution
- •Personally draft, negotiate, and execute contracts — vendor agreements, grant agreements, investment docs, partnership terms, and bespoke commercial arrangements — rather than routing everything through outside counsel
- •Own marketing communications review across the organization, building a process that scales with the business and never becomes a bottleneck
- •Manage outside counsel relationships across multiple jurisdictions, with clear ownership of what stays in-house vs. what gets sent out, and disciplined oversight of spend against budget
Compliance & Regulatory Strategy
- •Build the compliance program from scratch — AML/sanctions controls, KYC frameworks where applicable, internal policies, and entity-level governance
- •Own regulatory engagement strategy for digital asset and stablecoin developments, including proactive positioning with regulators rather than reactive response
- •Apply US securities law, commodities regulation, and AML/sanctions frameworks to live questions about token operations, partnerships, and product launches in regulatory gray areas
Infrastructure & Systems Building
- •Build a complete legal template library: contracts, grant agreements, vendor agreements, investment docs, and a comms-review framework that any team can self-serve against
- •Rationalize outside counsel across jurisdictions — vet, consolidate, and manage spend with a clear framework for what justifies external support
- •Stand up a risk register and reporting cadence so leadership has real, current visibility into legal exposure
Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership
- •Act as a strategic advisor to founders and leadership on corporate governance, token-related activities, partnerships, and high-stakes business decisions
- •Translate complex legal concepts into clear, practical guidance for non-legal stakeholders
Requirements
What We're Looking For
- •J.D. from a top-tier law school and active bar membership in at least one US jurisdiction
- •6+ years of legal experience in financial services, fintech, payments, or capital markets regulation, with deep working knowledge of US securities law, commodities regulation, and AML/sanctions frameworks — and their application to digital assets
- •Proven track record of building or advising on legal and compliance infrastructure for high-growth companies — whether in-house or as outside counsel — with concrete examples of contracts, programs, and frameworks you personally built or led
- •Hands-on executor: you personally draft, negotiate, and manage legal workflows, and you can point to specific contracts, programs, and policies you built yourself
- •Experience advising on complex financial products and equity or token structures, with the judgment to make fast calls on novel questions
- •Exceptional communicator with a track record of translating complex legal concepts into clear, practical guidance for non-technical stakeholders, including C-suite
- •Comfort working in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment where regulatory ground shifts and execution speed is a competitive advantage
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