General Counsel

Location: Menlo Park, CA; hybrid (onsite 2–3 days/week) Type: Full-time This executive role will lead the company's global legal, compliance, and regulatory functions and serve as a key advisor to senior leadership and the Board. The General Counsel will oversee corporate governance, commercial transactions, regulatory matters, compliance, intellectual property, employment, litigation, and legal operations across a fast-moving, international technology business. Responsibilities: Lead global legal and compliance strategy in alignment with business objectives and risk tolerance. Advise the Board and executive leadership on legal, regulatory, governance, financing, M&A, restructuring, and risk matters. Oversee complex commercial and technology agreements, including licensing, partnerships, APIs, infrastructure, and financial services-related arrangements. Counsel Product and Engineering teams on legal and regulatory considerations for new products, integrations, and emerging technologies. Lead regulatory and compliance matters across multiple jurisdictions, including securities, payments, privacy, AML/KYC, sanctions, and licensing. Manage litigation, investigations, regulatory inquiries, disputes, enforcement matters, and crisis response. Oversee intellectual property strategy, technology licensing, outside counsel, legal budgets, and legal operations. Build and scale legal, compliance, and contracting functions, including policies, playbooks, workflows, templates, and legal technology. Partner cross-functionally on employment law, workforce compliance, investigations, and other business-critical legal matters. Qualifications: JD or equivalent law degree from an accredited institution and active membership in good standing with at least one applicable bar association. 12+ years of legal experience, including substantial in-house leadership experience in fintech, financial services, payments, SaaS, digital assets, or another highly regulated technology environment. Prior experience as General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel, or a comparable senior legal executive in a global or rapidly scaling organization. Deep experience with complex commercial and technology agreements, product counseling, intellectual property, and technology licensing. Strong knowledge of regulatory frameworks affecting financial services, digital assets, payments, securities, AML/KYC, sanctions, privacy, and related areas. Experience advising executive teams and Boards on governance, legal strategy, risk, financings, M&A, and corporate structuring. Proven experience managing multi-jurisdictional legal and compliance matters and scaling legal/compliance functions. Experience overseeing litigation, investigations, regulatory inquiries, disputes, crisis response, outside counsel, and legal budgets. Strong executive judgment, communication, negotiation, leadership, and cross-functional partnership skills. Experience within digital assets, blockchain, fintech infrastructure, or adjacent financial technology sectors (preferred). Experience engaging with regulators, policymakers, industry groups, or standards organizations (preferred). Background in cross-border operations, privacy/financial crime/export-control compliance, open-source licensing, capital markets, or legal technology (preferred). #J-18808-Ljbffr