General Counsel

Sky

General Counsel overseeing legal function for Sky Ecosystem. Leading regulatory strategy and legal operations within decentralized finance.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and lead an interdisciplinary legal function spanning regulatory, capital tokenization, business contracts, complex IP, and legal operations
Act as strategic legal partner to senior internal experts and external counsel — set the questions, direct their research, challenge their conclusions, and synthesize their inputs into board-ready risk positions
Work with internal senior legal experts and external counsel on the protocol's legal architecture design
Design, implement, and enforce the legal aspects of the Sky Agent Framework — across entity structure, IP and licensing, operating, collaboration, and enforcement frameworks
Manage relationships with external counsel across the function's substantive areas
Design the function's operating architecture driven by AI and accountability framework — including intake, triage, matter tracking, team structure, leadership reporting, and AI tooling embedded across workflows
Run the day-to-day legal operations pipeline — prioritize the team's work, review output, raise quality standards, and institute reusable templates and playbooks
Develop and maintain a coherent regulatory strategy that anticipates the evolving DeFi and TradFi landscape, translating regulatory risk into clear organizational guidance
Act as the expert legal advisor on regulatory exposure and lead material interactions with regulators
Own key regulatory relationships across relevant jurisdictions, with particular depth in US frameworks governing digital assets, securities, and financial services

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years post-qualification legal experience, with at least 3 years in a senior legal leadership role (General Counsel, Deputy GC, or equivalent)
5+ years of US regulatory experience
3+ years of hands-on DeFi/crypto legal experience
Proven track record of building or scaling a legal function in a high-growth environment
Actively uses AI tooling within legal workflows

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

legal architecture designregulatory strategy developmentcapital tokenizationIP and licensinglegal operations managementrisk assessmentcompliancecontract negotiationDeFi legal expertisefinancial services regulation

Soft Skills

leadershipstrategic thinkingrelationship managementcommunicationproblem-solvingteam prioritizationquality assurancecollaborationsynthesis of informationadaptability