Senior Product & Technology Counsel

About Prime Trust Prime Trust is a trust company that offers digital asset infrastructure. We power innovation in the digital economy by simplifying the complexity of building with digital assets, making it easier for our customers to build, launch, and scale quickly and compliantly. The company is recognized by Forbes as America’s Best Startup Employer 2022 & 2023, and has also been named to CB Insights Blockchain 50 for 2022. Learn more at www.primetrust.com or connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter. Position: Senior Product & Technology Counsel Job Brief As a Senior Products & Technology Counsel, you’ll provide legal advice and strategies with a focus on product and technology and commercial agreements, largely. You’ll have a broad range of responsibilities providing legal guidance on product development initiatives. You’ll partner with our internal team and external partners and clients to develop new technologies while managing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance. You should have deep experience in negotiating complex technology and commercial agreements, be well-organized, have high attention to detail, have a proven ability to draft agreements from scratch and to handle multiple, complex matters simultaneously and independently without supervision. You are a problem solver who is comfortable working in nascent industries where even the regulators are unsure of policy. You have a strong moral compass and respect for law and regulations, yet you seek to find innovative ways to get to yes. You are able to work in a fast-paced environment with demanding deadlines. Principal Responsibilities Partner with our Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and other teams to provide practical and actionable advice as we launch new and exciting products. You will be the lead legal advisor to executives, product managers, engineers, and compliance professionals on product compliance and data privacy issues globally. Stay abreast of the latest developments in applicable laws, regulations, and industry trends and lead the efforts to apply those to our Products and operations. Proactively identify risks (and propose solutions) and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Draft and negotiate a variety of agreements, including but not limited to inbound product agreements (OEM, cloud based API usage, etc.), patent and technology license agreements, development and collaboration agreements, master service agreements, consulting services agreements, and logistics and supply agreements. Support continuous improvement of forms, policies, and processes to help streamline, simplify, and automate relevant contracting processes. Supervise and build out a team of other legal professionals, including managing outside counsel as needed. Experience and Skills You have at least 7 years of transactional legal experience at both a top-ranked law firm and in a corporate legal department with an emphasis on drafting and negotiating technology and commercial contracts and advising product and engineering teams with expertise in one or more of the following areas: payments, capital markets, finance, fintech, wealth management, or regulated financial institutions. You have a strong mix of legal, technical, and business acumen that will allow you to understand and discuss complex technical issues and data flows. You’re organized and can juggle multiple simultaneous projects at once, and have the ability to pivot on the fly to adapt to sudden changes in regulation, industry opportunities, or business priorities. You possess expert communication skills with the ability to collaborate with internal teammates and clients to achieve streamlined and efficient results while maintaining a professional and cordial relationship. You are direct, open, and both a strong communicator and a great listener. You are responsive and responsible, with a sense of urgency to accomplish tasks and eagerness to take on additional responsibilities.You have a thirst for learning and the intellectual creativity and ambition to innovate and find ways to do things that others might think are impossible. Challenges are nothing more than a problem that you “can” solve. You love crypto and have gone down the rabbit hole or at least are very curious about crypto/blockchain and believe that there is a responsible way to adopt the technology to enhance our lives. You want to become an expert in crypto. Must be active and in good standing in one State Bar in the United States, preferably in California or New York. Education Juris Doctor Degree is required Benefits 401K Gym membership subsidy Medical Health Insurance 100% covered by the company. Connectivity reimbursement up to $100 per month (which includes work related cell phone, wifi, etc.) Unlimited PTO