Legal Counsel

Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.

Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, GMX and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.

On our legal team, you will have a hands-on opportunity to shape the future of Chainlink, one of the most exciting projects in the blockchain space. We are looking for a highly motivated, entrepreneurial, and experienced attorney to serve as Legal Counsel to take on the challenge of a fast-growing and evolving industry. You will be working closely with our General Counsel and business teams, and will be helping to build a world-class legal department. As a key contributor, you will work on some of the most exciting legal and business issues in blockchain today.

Your Impact

• Be on the front lines of developing strategies for evaluating complex risk in business-centric ways
• Build scalable processes that allow the business flexibility and freedom to move quickly
• Support our compliance with applicable U.S. and international laws and regulations, in close collaboration with colleagues in finance and operations
• Continuously research and master the latest legal frameworks from regulatory bodies across the globe
• Advise a wide range of business teams on a variety of complex legal topics

Requirements

• License to practice law in a U.S. jurisdiction or equivalent in the Republic of Ireland or the UK
• 4 years at top law firm or 3 years of Post-Qualification Experience (PQE)
• Excellent problem solving skills, judgment, communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, meet tight deadlines and act decisively
• Ability to take ownership of projects and concisely turn legal analysis into action

Preferred Requirements

• Prior experience with, detailed knowledge of, and a passion for blockchain technology
• Ability to present complex compliance and regulatory issues in a clear and concise manner and provide succinct, practical and results-oriented legal advice
• Experience counseling non-lawyer clients in the blockchain industry or consumer technology industry
• Familiarity with legal regimes impacting the decentralised finance industry and experience with open-source software licensing

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

We carefully review all applications and aim to provide a response to every candidate within two weeks after the job posting closes. The closing date is listed on the job advert, so we encourage you to take the time to thoughtfully prepare your application. We want to fully consider your experience and skills, and you will hear from us regarding the status of your application shortly after the closing date.

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