Marketing Counsel
Stellar is an open-source blockchain network designed to facilitate fast, low-cost cross-border payments and financial transactions globally.
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About Stellar
Stellar is an open-source blockchain network focused on improving global financial access by enabling fast, secure, and low-cost cross-border transactions. It connects financial institutions, payment systems, and individuals to transfer digital and fiat assets. With a mission to promote financial inclusion, Stellar is designed to serve both developed and underserved markets, offering interoperability between traditional and blockchain-based financial systems.
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About the Role
You will provide legal review and practical, risk-calibrated advice for public-facing marketing and communications. You will support campaigns, product launches, events, brand and intellectual-property matters, strategic deals, and related commercial agreements. You will also build scalable legal processes, templates, guidance, training, and intake workflows.
Requirements
- J.D. from an accredited law school
- Active membership in good standing with at least one United States state bar
- At least 3 years of relevant law firm and/or in-house legal experience
- Working knowledge of marketing, advertising, promotions, sponsorship, endorsements, social media, online advertising, consumer protection, privacy, intellectual property, data protection, and consumer financial services law
- Ability to assess legal, regulatory, reputational, contractual, privacy, securities, commodities, and consumer-protection risks
- Strong drafting, editing, and written communication skills
- Ability to provide practical, clear, risk-calibrated legal advice
- Ability to work independently, prioritize competing requests, and manage time-sensitive projects
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
- Experience drafting, reviewing, or negotiating commercial agreements related to marketing or outward-facing initiatives
Responsibilities
- Own legal review of outward-facing marketing and communications materials across channels
- Advise stakeholders on public-facing content, campaign strategy, product messaging, partner marketing, and external positioning
- Identify and help mitigate legal, regulatory, reputational, contractual, privacy, and consumer-protection risks
- Provide legal support for marketing aspects of strategic business deals, including diligence, KYC coordination, drafting, negotiation, deliverables, and payment mechanics
- Partner with Marketing leadership on strategy, campaign planning, thought leadership, and cross-functional issues
- Support owned and third-party events, including strategy, contracts, sponsorships, waivers, releases, collateral, and operational issues
- Support brand and intellectual-property work, including trademark portfolio management, brand policies, asset use, naming, rebrands, clearance, contested matters, and protection
- Review product launch materials, webpages, explainers, FAQs, and announcements
- Develop and maintain legal processes, templates, guidelines, playbooks, training, and intake workflows
- Draft, review, and negotiate marketing, advertising, SaaS, event, vendor, sponsorship, partnership, grant, and services agreements
Benefits
- Lumen-denominated grants
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible time off
- 15 company holidays, including a company-wide holiday break
- Paid parental leave
- Paid pregnancy disability leave
- Gym reimbursement
- Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) with 4% match
- Health and dependent care FSA accounts
- Commuter benefits with employer contribution
- Health Savings Account with employer contribution
- Family-building benefits through Kindbody
- Wellbeing benefits through One Medical, Rightway, and Headspace
- Daily lunch and snacks in the office
- Company retreats
