The Legal Counsel will lead the legal functions at Nansen, focusing on drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, providing legal advice on regulations, corporate governance, and various legal matters. They will work in a dynamic remote environment, collaborating with different business units and managing multiple projects effectively.
Nansen is a blockchain analytics platform that enriches on-chain data with millions of wallets labels. Crypto investors use Nansen to discover opportunities, perform due diligence and defend their portfolios with our real-time dashboards and alerts.
The successful candidate will ideally be based in Singapore, although our work is 100% online.
The Opportunity:
You will be leading the legal function within Nansen and operate with a high degree of autonomy. This includes shaping the form and function of the contracts that govern our relationships with our customers and partners, and the frameworks that guide our people. As such, your contributions will have a big impact in taking Nansen’s business to the next level.
Key Responsibilities:
You will work within a matrix structure, providing legal support across multiple units with different business requirements, in the form of:
- Structuring, drafting, and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements with blockchain foundations and entities, outsourced service providers, and partners.
- Understanding the risks to the business and providing practical advice on areas such as regulations applicable to cryptocurrency and payment services activities, marketing and customer loyalty programmes, intellectual property, and data protection, engaging external counsel as needed.
- Maintaining Nansen’s rights and obligations relating to corporate governance through liaising with external corporate secretaries and shareholders where required.
- Advise on a wide range of legal matters and ad hoc queries, including strategic mergers and acquisitions, investments, employment, and procurement.
Requirements:
The ideal candidate for us is:
- A Singapore-qualified lawyer, with at least 3 to 5 years of legal experience in a law firm or in-house counsel role. Preferably, you should have experience working with, or in, a growth-stage technology startup, and you are familiar with cryptocurrency and DeFi concepts (e.g., staking, restaking, validators, nodes, and wallets).
- Experienced in corporate and commercial matters, with excellent drafting and negotiation skills.
- Commercially astute, highly-driven and focused on achieving practical outcomes.
- Able to effectively communicate complex legal concepts to internal stakeholders.
- Well-organised and able to prioritise and deliver on multiple workstreams in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.
- Have an AI-first mindset. At Nansen, AI is more than a tool - it's a mindset. Ideal candidates are those who enthusiastically embrace AI tools and techniques to streamline processes and elevate outcomes.
What We Offer:
- Competitive salary and generous equity.
- Remote work environment with a flexible schedule.
- A team that values learning and is willing to test and adopt innovative solutions (including AI).
- A company culture that values speed, ownership, curiosity, simplicity, transparency, and courage.
- Opportunities for personal and professional growth as the company scales.
- Exposure to a global network of industry experts, partners, and influencers.
Nansen Singapore Office
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