Starknet Foundation
Head of Legal (Interim)
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About the Role
We're looking for an interim Head of Legal to step into a General Counsel–level role with broad scope across corporate legal, strategic advisory, and treasury/TradFi matters. This is a senior, high-impact engagement - you'll oversee the legal team, act as a strategic partner to leadership on key initiatives, advise on upcoming product launches, and bring hands-on experience with traditional finance legal work.
What You'll Do
- Provide strategic legal direction on major company initiatives while overseeing and managing the legal team to ensure continuity and consistency of legal operations.
- Advise on legal and structural considerations as we build, launch, and potentially spin out new products (regulatory considerations, entity and incentives structuring, employee contractual arrangements).
- Act as a trusted legal advisor to senior leadership, with regular 1:1 engagement with key executives including the Executive Director.
- Apply your strong traditional finance legal expertise to lead legal work related to treasury operations, including trading documentation, derivatives agreements, and negotiations.
- Provide day-to-day legal counsel across corporate, commercial (including IP), employment and operational matters.
- Support cross-functional teams (Product, Growth, Operations) in integrating legal and compliance considerations into planning and execution.
- Ensure legal policies, controls, and governance practices stay fit for purpose, adjusting them as needed.
- Represent Legal at Board meetings as required.
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Who You Are
- An established Legal expert and Leader with significant experience operating at General Counsel or senior legal leadership level.
- Strong combination of Web3/crypto and traditional finance (TradFi) legal experience.
- Expertise across a wide and diverse array of legal disciplines, including regulatory, employment, product, financial, and commercial/IP.
- Track record of managing or overseeing a legal team, ideally through periods of change or high growth.
- Experience advising on corporate structuring matters, including entity formation, spin-outs, or similar arrangements.
- Comfortable representing legal at Board level and communicating with senior executives and stakeholders.
- Able to operate independently in a remote, globally distributed organization, with enough working-hours overlap to collaborate closely with an European-based team.
- Available to start on short notice and flexible to support a structured handover at the start and end of the engagement.
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The Logistics
- Full time, short-term engagement (6–8 months).
- Flexible on engagement type (contract, fixed-term).
- Competitive pay.
- Remote-first, with some overlap with European working hours required.
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