Legal Counsel
Blockaid is an onchain security platform that detects and responds to fraud, scams, financial risks, and smart contract exploits in real time. It serves a wide range of clients including chains, protocols, wallets, exchanges, banks, and hedge funds.
About Blockaid
Blockaid is an enterprise-grade, onchain security platform founded in 2022 by former Israeli cyber intelligence operatives. It provides an end-to-end security solution for web3 companies, trusted by clients like Metamask, Coinbase, and Stellar, as well as chains, protocols, wallets, exchanges, banks, and hedge funds. The platform offers end-user protection, onchain asset security, crypto fraud detection, and operational security. This is powered by superior threat intelligence, combining dedicated security research, extensive transaction visibility, and internet-wide scanning to detect threats. Blockaid leverages a network of integrations, onchain data indexing with machine learning, and offchain data scanning to identify threats before they move onchain. With offices in New York and Tel Aviv, the company has raised $83M from investors including Ribbit, Variant, Cyberstarts, Sequoia, Greylock, and Google Ventures.
Skills
About the Role
You will draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements including SaaS agreements, NDAs, partnership agreements, vendor contracts, and Data Processing Agreements. You will partner with sales, business development, and product teams to support deals and new offerings. You will provide day-to-day legal support on product matters, help develop contract templates and playbooks, advise on corporate and operational issues, and support compliance and privacy initiatives including implementation of data protection frameworks. You will collaborate cross-functionally to identify legal risks and deliver pragmatic solutions, working independently and managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Requirements
- 4-6 years of experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house at a technology company
- English - Native-level
- Strong experience handling commercial agreements particularly SaaS and technology-related contracts
- Experience advising on data privacy matters including GDPR CCPA and similar frameworks
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail
- Proactive and comfortable owning projects end-to-end
- Business-oriented mindset with creative problem-solving skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work cross-functionally
- Nice to have: Experience working with crypto/web3 companies or strong familiarity with the ecosystem
- Nice to have: Familiarity with MiCA DORA BSA/AML and similar regimes in the US and Europe
- Nice to have: Experience with regulatory compliance matters
- Nice to have: Experience with labor and employment law
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements
- Partner with sales business development and product teams to support deals and initiatives
- Provide day-to-day legal support on product-related matters and new offerings
- Develop and improve contract templates playbooks and internal legal processes
- Advise on corporate and operational matters
- Support compliance and privacy initiatives including data protection frameworks
- Collaborate cross-functionally to identify legal risks and provide pragmatic solutions