What are the responsibilities and job description for the Contract Counsel position at Zero Hash?
About the Role
Zero Hash is seeking a Contract Counsel to review, draft, and negotiate contracts for the leading cryptocurrency settlement infrastructure. We are seeking a smart, driven individual with experience tackling problems across a variety of legal disciplines, including contract law, IP, financial services regulation, commercial, and employment law. We are a high performing team looking for an equally ambitious teammate.
Responsibilities
- Review, draft, manage and negotiate various contracts including, commercial contracts, user and services agreements, terms of service, licensing and vendor agreements, confidentiality agreements, and employment and independent contractor agreements.
- Collaborating with business development, sales, and product teams to structure commercial and licensing agreements.
- Collaborating with in-house and outside counsel to research complex legal and regulatory issues.
- Building relationships with outside counsel, partners, and regulators in furtherance of driving business goals.
- Assist on other ad-hoc projects at the request as needed.
Role Requirements
- J.D. degree, with 2 years of relevant legal experience at top law firm, government agency, or in-house legal department, preferably with experience at a fast-growing startup or financial services provider
- Experience drafting various contracts and managing negotiations in collaboration with internal firm stakeholders
- Admitted and in good standing with a state bar or the District of Columbia, preferably Illinois or eligible to register as in-house counsel in Illinois
- Strong interest in new and emerging technologies, particularly blockchain and cryptocurrencies
- Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to work across functions and consult with technology development teams
- Strong organizational skills, with attention to detail
Preferred Experience
- Experience with managing contract negotiations in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience in financial services products, particularly with blockchain, cryptocurrency, or web3 based offerings.
- Experience with financial laws, regulations, or industry standards, with particular emphasis on money transmission licensing, ACH regulations, remittances, and payment cards.
- Experience with data privacy regulations, including GDPR, GLBA, and CPRA
Benefits Offered
We believe a happy, motivated, and healthy team is the best way to succeed. We offer the following benefits
- Healthcare Insurance: Zero Hash offers plans that cover nearly 100% of employee premiums (U.S. Only)
- Opportunity to earn equity
- Vision Insurance (U.S. Only)
- Dental Insurance (U.S. Only)
- Generous PTO policy
- Paid Maternity & Paternity leave (after 6 months employment)
- Visa sponsorship
- 401k (U.S. Only)
About Zero Hash
Zero Hash's full stack financial infrastructure seamlessly connects fiat, crypto and stablecoins, enabling a better way to move and transfer money and value globally.
Zero Hash provides the complete technical infrastructure (delivered through API and SDK) as well as the global regulatory stack to easily and compliantly send, receive, store, and convert fiat, crypto, and stablecoins, in one platform.
Start-ups, enterprises and Fortune 500 companies, including Stripe, Interactive Brokers, Shift4, Franklin Templeton, and MoonPay embed our infrastructure to power a diverse range of use cases: cross-border payments, commerce, trading, remittance, payroll, tokenization, wallets and on and off-ramps.
Backed by Interactive Brokers, Point72 Ventures, NYCA, Bain Capital, and tastytrade.
The Zero Hash Culture
All Zero Hash employees are guided by the following characteristics and core principles:
- Independence/Ownership - An ability to work autonomously. Join Zero Hash, pitch ideas, and shape the work you do.
- Passion - We are innovating quickly and challenging the status quo. We want you to think big, be creative and make a difference every day.
- Collaborative - A good attitude and respect for others. We’re teammates, not co-workers. Everything we do is a shared success and equally a shared failure - we talk in terms of “we” not “me”.
- Initiative - An ability and passion for learning and asking questions. We will champion you, challenge you and push you to achieve your best - and we expect you to do the same.
- Empathy - An ability to listen, respect, and understand your co-workers, customers, and everyone you interact with no matter how different they are to you.
- Adaptability - An ability to respond quickly. We are in a fast-paced industry and so we expect you to be creative when solving a new problem and comfortable under pressure.
- Transparency - We believe that transparency is critical to empowering everyone to make the best decisions, both from the company to its people and vice versa.
- Integrity - Integrity creates trust. As both an organization collectively and as individuals, it is our most valuable asset.
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