Senior Counsel

Overview

A growing organization is seeking a Senior Counsel to lead its commercial contracting function. This role involves owning the full lifecycle of commercial contracts that support the rebuilding of financial infrastructure, including SaaS and technology-services agreements, institutional partner deals, vendor contracts, NDAs, and data agreements. The position offers the opportunity to build scalable contract infrastructure and collaborate cross-functionally with operations, compliance, security, product, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Draft, negotiate, and manage commercial contracts end to end, serving as first-line review and sign-off on day-to-day agreements.
• Develop and implement scalable contract infrastructure such as templates, playbooks, intake and contract lifecycle management processes, and turnaround SLAs.
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure commitments in contracts are clearly understood and executed.
• Support other legal matters across corporate, employment, insurance, intellectual property, and general startup legal needs.
• Manage outside counsel engagements, control legal spend, and review marketing and published content prior to release.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active bar license.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience owning complex commercial and SaaS/technology-services agreements from negotiation through execution.
• Experience working in-house or closely with in-house legal teams.
• Proven ability to partner cross-functionally with security, compliance, and engineering stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills, low ego, and ability to thrive in a fast-moving early-stage environment.
• Fully remote within the United States; some availability in the Chicago region is a plus but not required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience negotiating agreements for software used by regulated financial institutions.
• Startup generalist mindset with flexibility to handle diverse legal matters.
• Curiosity about on-chain finance and frontier financial technologies (crypto experience not required).
• Fast learner with a genuine eagerness to acquire new knowledge.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range: $200,000–$250,000, final package dependent on experience and qualifications.
• Equity participation.
• Medical, dental, and vision healthcare coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Generous paid time off.

Location

• Remote within the United States.
• Some availability in the Chicago area is a plus but not mandatory.