Legal Counsel

EU or Remote (excluding France, Australia and Canada)

Consensys is the leading blockchain and web3 software company founded by Joe Lubin, CEO of Consensys and Co-Founder of Ethereum. Since 2014, Consensys has been at the forefront of innovation, pioneering technological developments within the web3 ecosystem.

Through our product suite, including the MetaMask platform, Infura, Linea, Diligence, and our NFT toolkit Phosphor, we have become the trusted collaborator for users, creators, and developers on their path to build and belong in the world they want to see.

Whether building a dapp, an NFT collection, a portfolio, or a better future, the instinct to build is universal. Consensys inspires and champions the builder instinct in everyone by making web3 universally easy to use and develop on.

Our mission is to unlock the collaborative power of communities by making the decentralized web universally easy to access, use, and build on.

You’ll get to work on the tools, infrastructure, and apps that scale these platforms to onboard one billion participants and 5 million developers. You’ll be constantly exposed to new concepts, ideas, and frameworks from your peers, and as you work on different projects — challenging you to stay at the top of your game. You’ll join a network of builders that reaches the edge of our ecosystem. Consensys alumni have moved on to become tech entrepreneurs, CEOs, and team leads at tech companies.

About the Legal Team

The legal team at Consensys provides a broad range of support services to our product suite. The work is varied but usually somewhere along the intersection of regulatory analysis, strategic business advice, data protection, employment law, intellectual property and general corporate work. If you are someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment where being self-directed, determined, and resilient is a requirement, we are confident you’ll enjoy working with us and the broader Consensys team. Consensys always has been and will remain a remote-first company.

What you’ll do

We are looking for someone to supplement and complement the current team at Consensys. We believe lawyers work best when they are challenged, intellectually stimulated, and pursuing their personal interests. We look forward to crafting a role that fits Consensys’s growing needs while charting a compelling career path for our new team member. To start, we’ll need help with the following:

• Provide strategic legal advice, counsel and support to Consensys’s business leaders and dozens of projects.
• Reports to the leads in the legal team.
• Keep up to date with regulatory developments and strategies.
• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating a wide variety of documents including, but not limited to, commercial agreements, professional services agreements, marketing, internal policies, employment agreements, and vendor agreements.
• You will work closely with the existing team and also partner with internal support functions like Finance, HR, IT and the office of the CEO.

Would be great if you brought this to the role

• A law degree from a leading law school and a license to practice law in either England & Wales or Ireland
• 3-6 years of transactional, IP, technology or regulatory experience at a large reputable law firm and/or in-house
• Experience drafting and negotiating complex agreements
• Fluency in, or a strong desire to learn about, blockchain technology and related legal issues
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Hard-charging, innovative, and comfortable with high levels of responsibility
• Comfort with being self-directed and learning quickly to tackle time-sensitive tasks
• Business judgment and ability to assess legal risk while providing practical advice
• Ability to effectively engage with business and legal counterparts
• Ability to handle multiple projects and matters simultaneously
• A proven academic or professional track-record demonstrating hard work, ambition and a dedication to self-improvement and excellence

Don't meet all the requirements? Don't sweat it. We’re passionate about building a diverse team of humans and as such, if you think you've got what it takes for our chaotic-but-fun, remote-friendly, start-up environment—apply anyway, detailing your relevant transferable skills in your cover letter. While we have a pretty good idea of what we need, we're ready for you to challenge our thinking on who needs to be in this role.