Senior Counsel

‍Are you ready to own the commercial-contracting engine of the company rebuilding Wall Street? The infrastructure of global finance gets rebuilt once in a generation. The agreements that carry it get written once, too. We're hiring the lawyer who leads them.

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Why Etherealize?

Etherealize is building the rails to bring Wall Street into the 21st century.

With $40M in funding from Electric Capital and Paradigm, we are bringing together the best minds from Ethereum and Wall Street to rebuild the infrastructure that underpins the financial system — faster, safer, fully on-chain.

To fulfill this mission, we are deeply engaged with a number of banks, investment advisors, and market infrastructure providers. Our Senior Counsel will own the contracts and legal infrastructure that turn frontier technology into commitments the world's largest financial institutions can rely on.

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What Will You Do?

• Own the commercial-contracting engine. Draft, negotiate, and manage the full lifecycle of SaaS and technology-services agreements, institutional partner deals, vendor and procurement contracts, NDAs, and data agreements. You're first-line review and sign-off on the day-to-day, partnering with the GC on the high-stakes and novel deals.
• Build the infrastructure, not just the documents. Stand up scalable contract infrastructure from the ground up: templates, playbooks, an intake / CLM process, and clear turnaround SLAs the whole company can move against.
• Bridge the deal to the people who deliver it. Pull operations, compliance, security, product, and engineering into negotiations to pressure-test commitments, then translate executed terms into clear, owned obligations so every team knows exactly what was agreed.
• Flex across corporate, employment, insurance, IP, and the full in-house portfolio. As the second lawyer on our team, you will have opportunity to work on a number of other matters that arise in the life of a startup. You’ll learn new areas and build your generalist skills.
• Manage outside counsel and legal risk. Own delegated outside-counsel matters, scope and control legal spend, and review marketing and published content before it ships.

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Who Are You?

If you're the right fit, you likely recognize yourself in many of these:

• Fully Remote (US). You’ll work closely with our Chicago-based GC; some availability in the Chicago region is a plus, but not required.
• A commercial-contracting lawyer with real reps at scale. With at least 5 years of relevant experience, you've owned complex commercial and SaaS / technology-services agreements end to end, from negotiation through executed obligations. You’ve previously worked in-house, or worked closely with in-house teams. As a bonus, you’ve negotiated agreements for software used by regulated financial institutions.
• JD + active bar license.
• Cross-functional by instinct. You've partnered with security, compliance, and engineering stakeholders, and you know how to bridge external commitments to the internal teams that implement them.
• T-shaped and flexible. Commercial contracts is your deep specialty, but you step into other work when the moment needs it. A startup generalist at heart.
• A fast learner. You are genuinely curious and eager to learn. You ask insightful questions and ramp quickly on unfamiliar domains.
• A clear communicator, low-ego, and energized by a fast-moving early stage.
• No crypto experience required or expected; curiosity about on-chain finance is a plus.

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What's In It For You?

• Career-defining scope. You won't be another reviewer on a contract queue. You own commercial contracting end to end and build the infrastructure the whole company runs on.
• Immediate impact. Legal is a single-person function today. From day one you take real ownership from the GC and become the reason deals and partnerships move faster.
• A front-row seat to frontier finance. You'll sit directly alongside the CEO, founders, and General Counsel on the deals that shape the company and define the future of global finance.
• Growth. While owning a key legal function, you’ll also have the opportunity to flex into new areas and grow alongside our company.

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Employment Details

• Location: Remote (US), some availability in Chicago region is a plus
• Compensation: $200,000–$250,000 base salary + equity. Final package based on prior experience and qualifications.
• Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision healthcare, 401(k), generous PTO, and more. See overview here.

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Equal Opportunity

Etherealize values diversity in all its forms. We welcome qualified applicants of every background and identity.

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