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Starknet Foundation

Head of Legal (Interim)

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Interim Head of Legal serving as General Counsel-level advisor across corporate, regulatory, employment, commercial, IP, product, treasury, trading documentation, derivatives, and traditional finance matters. Oversees the legal team, advises executives and the Board, supports product launches and corporate structuring, maintains governance and policies, and partners with Product, Growth, Operations, and Compliance in a remote global organization.
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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

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