Job Summary
As a member of Legal, you’ll be part of a growing organization that is building out various playbooks, programs, and processes. Legal is critical to the expansion of Kraken worldwide and to the compliant but challenging progression of Kraken’s mission and interests. To be successful in Legal, you need to be nimble and ownership-oriented: able to work well in a team environment but also to own innovations and get things done in a sometimes lean team. Legal members are also direct communicators, concise/action-oriented, and get things done in reasonably quick timeframes: Kraken is an innovative, fast-paced company. Finally, among other things, our Legal team has a healthy appetite for risk: we need to push boundaries in the crypto industry and advocate for global financial freedom and inclusion. Legal does its part to further this mission.
- Minimum Qualification:Degree
- Experience Level:Mid level
- Experience Length:3 years
Job Description/Requirements
- Support papering deals of all shapes and sizes across all levels of the organization, from precedent-setting contracts for new lines of business, our largest enterprise SaaS deals and strategic partnerships to one-off freelancer engagements
- Act as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders in understanding and interpreting proposed and final contract terms (both business and legal)
- Counsel and advise on risks and opportunities
- Develop and update form contracts
- Work and coordinate cross-departmentally with diverse Kraken teams, including: Compliance, Marketing, Finance, Tax, Security, Regional Operations, Business and Corporate Development, as well as with members of Kraken's executive leadership
- Use a highly-regulated and well-resourced environment to your strategic commercial advantage
- Develop strategies for addressing risk in business-centric ways and build commercial processes that allow the business flexibility and freedom to move quickly
Skills you must HODL
- Admission to practice law in the United States
- 3 to 5 years of relevant experience negotiating technology transactions, whether in-house or at a top law firm
- Experience structuring, drafting, and negotiating a variety of commercial and licensing agreements, including technology related agreements, terms of service and privacy policies, banking agreements, partnership agreements, and general commercial contracts
- A proactive, entrepreneurial mindset, plus an opportunity-making attitude, using the law to increase the company’s optionality, not decrease it
- A demonstrated passion for cryptocurrency
Nice to Haves
- 2+ years working with marketing teams (sponsorships, digital marketing, agency agreements, etc.) and/or privacy
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