Legal Counsel
Somnia Network enables onchain applications through its own EVM-compatible blockchain. It aims to service mass consumer and real-time applications with a focus on gaming applications.
About Somnia Network
Somnia Network helps developers build mass consumer applications by providing an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain. With it, you can deploy games, social platforms, and metaverse experiences requiring millions of concurrent users. Somnia eliminates blockchain scalability barriers through custom consensus mechanisms and database optimization.
Skills
About the Role
This broad, hands-on role works alongside the Legal Director across Somnia's international, multi-entity legal operations. The position owns day-to-day legal matters, negotiates agreements and NDAs, supports business teams, and helps translate developments in crypto and digital-asset regulation into practical guidance.
Requirements
- Law degree and ability to work core hours in the CET timezone.
- One to three years of relevant legal experience, ideally from a law firm or in-house.
- Genuine interest in crypto and AI.
- Ability to run matters independently while knowing when to escalate.
- Strong drafting and negotiation skills and clear written English.
- Comfort working in a fast-moving, high-volume environment.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, vendor and SaaS contracts, NDAs, and related documentation.
- Handle day-to-day legal questions and provide practical, commercially grounded answers.
- Support product and corporate legal work across Somnia's entities and jurisdictions.
- Track crypto and digital-asset regulatory developments and turn them into actionable guidance.
- Maintain and improve internal templates, playbooks, and contract-tracking processes.
- Coordinate with external counsel when specialist legal input is needed.
Benefits
- Remote work
- Competitive salary
- Token incentives
- Direct support and continuous mentorship from a senior lawyer
- Opportunity to work on blockchain, DeFi, and AI legal matters