OpenSea is hiring a

Web3 Director, Legal

OpenSea is the first and largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, which are digital goods endowed with property rights. Applications for NFTs include collectibles, gaming items, domain names, digital art, and many other items backed by a blockchain. NFTs have brand new properties that go beyond traditional digital items: they’re unique, provably scarce, liquid, and usable across multiple applications. At OpenSea, we're excited about building a brand new economy from the ground up based on true digital ownership and proud to be recognized as Y Combinator's #29 ranked top private company.

When hiring candidates, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in our culture, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, grow rapidly, and love our work. Our team has varied backgrounds from Stanford, UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Waterloo, San Jose State University, DePauw University, SUNY schools as well as those who signed record deals with Universal Music Group instead of pursuing a traditional college education. While we have experience at many of the FAANG companies, we've also worked at places like Artsy, Lime, a varying degree of start ups as well as a self-made jewelry business.

At OpenSea, we know it's critical to celebrate and support our differences. Employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences and opinions enables our employees, our product and our community to flourish. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

You will be one of the first few members of the legal team and will report directly to the General Counsel.  The ideal candidate is a collaborative team player that is passionate about NFTs and blockchain technology and happiest in a fast-paced, action-oriented environment.  

Responsibilities:  - Provide practical guidance to product, engineering, operations, and community teams on day-to-day issues, as well as foundational legal issues without clear solutions - Build and maintain scalable legal compliance and risk management frameworks and processes  - Keep abreast of quickly developing regulatory landscape to forecast and head off legal challenges for rapidly scaling business - Develop, execute, and continually evaluate legal strategy in litigation and/or regulatory matters - Support business development initiatives and draft/negotiate contracts 

Desired Qualifications 8+ years of legal experience, preferably with in-house experience with a consumer technology, crypto/blockchain, or high growth tech company  - Experience running litigation and/or regulatory matters - Strong negotiation, risk-assessment, and dispute resolution skills  - Track record of collaborative partnership with lawyers and non-lawyers to solve problems and get things done  - Juris doctor from accredited law school  - Member of a US state bar in good standing

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