Head of Legal (Interim)

Job description

About the Role We're looking for an interim Head of Legal to step into a General Counsel–level role with broad scope across corporate legal, strategic advisory, and treasury/TradFi matters. This is a senior, high-impact engagement - you'll oversee the legal team, act as a strategic partner to leadership on key initiatives, advise on upcoming product launches, and bring hands-on experience with traditional finance legal work. What You'll Do - Provide strategic legal direction on major company initiatives while overseeing and managing the legal team to ensure continuity and consistency of legal operations - Advise on legal and structural considerations as we build, launch, and potentially spin out new products (regulatory considerations, entity and incentives structuring, employee contractual arrangements). - Act as a trusted legal advisor to senior leadership, with regular 1:1 engagement with key executives including the Executive Director - Apply your strong traditional finance legal expertise to lead legal work related to treasury operations, including trading documentation, derivatives agreements, and negotiations. - Provide day-to-day legal counsel across corporate, commercial (including IP), employment and operational matters. - Support cross-functional teams (Product, Growth, Operations) in integrating legal and compliance considerations into planning and execution - Ensure legal policies, controls, and governance practices stay fit for purpose, adjusting them as needed - Represent Legal at Board meetings as required Who You Are - An established Legal expert and Leader with significant experience operating at General Counsel or senior legal leadership level - Strong combination of Web3/crypto and traditional finance (TradFi) legal experience - Expertise across a wide and diverse array of legal disciplines, including regulatory, employment, product, financial, and commercial/IP - Track record of managing or overseeing a legal team, ideally through periods of change or high growth - Experience advising on corporate structuring matters, including entity formation, spin-outs, or similar arrangements - Comfortable representing legal at Board level and communicating with senior executives and stakeholders - Able to operate independently in a remote, globally distributed organization, with enough working-hours overlap to collaborate closely with an European-based team - Available to start on short notice and flexible to support a structured handover at the start and end of the engagement The Logistics - Full time, short-term engagement (6–8 months) - Flexible on engagement type (contract, fixed-term) - Competitive pay - Remote-first, with some overlap with European working hours required