Nillion is hiring Web3 Web3 General Counsel (Remote, Europe)
Web3 General Counsel (Remote, Europe)
Experience
Minimum 1 Year
Employee type
Full Time
Position
Senior
Offer Salary
Desired Qualifications
- Qualified EU Lawyer with a minimum of 6+ years of experience in European jurisdictions.
- Experience or knowledge with blockchain, crypto, or Web3 is a must (with based in the EU)
- European National from any country of the member states.
- Expertise in commercial, labor, and corporate law
- Proven international experience in startups and scale-ups multi-jurisdiction in Europe
- Proven ability to operate effectively in an international business environment.
- Strong understanding of diverse legal frameworks and international experience.
- Excellent English communication; additional European languages are beneficial.
- Exceptional communication skills and ability to manage relationships at all levels.
- Exceptional attention to detail in written contracts and external communications
- Strategic thinker with a proactive and innovative approach to legal challenges.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with a globally distributed team.
- Demonstrated experience working in Startups or hyper-growth organizations.
- Proven experience in international operations and environments.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Serving as the initial point of contact for internal legal operations inquiries.
- Managing and overseeing all contractual agreements involving employees, advisors, and vendors, including handling advisor and consultant contractual renewals.
- Providing comprehensive support to the General Counsel and the executive team to ensure a cohesive legal strategy.
- Conducting the first review of critical information about the company, including external communications.
- Broadening and maintaining the legal policy framework, ensuring compliance and keeping practices current.
- Managing KYC/KYB initiatives and processes, both internal and external
- Managing legal overheads and contracts.
- Managing contracts, employment/consulting documents, and bespoke arrangements.
- Maintaining and overseeing privacy and security policies.
- Manage corporate matters, including recording and managing board minutes and resolutions.
- Overseeing vendor contracts, including monitoring renewals, expirations, and costs.
- Overseeing employees' and contractors' contracts, including monitoring renewals, expirations, and costs.
Soft Skills
- Experience with U.S. legal practices is a significant advantage.
- Other European languages rather than English
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive compensation package.
- Make a big impact as an early contributor to an incredible founding team.
- Work closely with our top thought leader in the industry.
- Work on new problems in an incredibly emerging and dynamic field.
- Learn from experts in a mentorship-oriented work culture.
- You don’t need to be in an office or at a desk to have an impact anymore! We are fully remote but value regular meet-ups.
- Our flexible working culture allows you to work around what matters.
Our Company
- Description
- Nillion is a secure computation network that is fundamentally changing the way high-value data is stored and used throughout the world. Processing transactions via blockchain was the tip of the iceberg of what information and industries, decentralized technology and privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) can impact. The Nillion network expands these technologies into new use cases and verticals like AI, biometric data, health data, voting, consumer data and more.
- As reported by TechCrunch, Nillion raised a $25m at a $180m valuation in the midst of the bear market of 2022 – the highest valuation for a Seed Round reported in Q4-2022. The project has attracted some of the top talent in tech, including the Founding Engineer of Uber (Conrad Whelan), Founder of Indiegogo (Slava Rubin), Associate General Counsel of Coinbase (Lindsay Danas Cohen), Co-Founder of Hedera Hashgraph (Andrew Masanto) and several other high profile team members and advisors.
- The ideal General Counsel will be a leader who is adaptable, innovative, and capable of navigating the complexities of an evolving technological and regulatory landscape, with experience in all aspects of corporate, commercial, tax, and labor law, with excellent blockchain, crypto, or Web3 track record.
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