Company Description
Founded in July 2021, TBD is one of Block's four business units, alongside Square, Cash App, and Tidal. At TBD, we believe in a decentralized future that returns ownership and control over your finances, data, and identity. Guided by this vision, TBD is building an open source platform and developer infrastructure that enables everyone to access and participate in the global economy.
TBD is inviting the world to join us in building and adopting open and decentralized technologies that solve real problems for real people - from next generation infrastructure that lowers the cost of global payments and enables frictionless commerce, to decentralized identity technologies that enable anyone to access and participate in the global economy. Our mission advances economic empowerment through the power of decentralized solutions, built open source and collaboratively.
The offerings we build will provide developers, institutions, and individuals with the capabilities needed to build the next wave of innovative apps and services, and access this decentralized future. We're leveraging bitcoin and other decentralized technologies to reinvent the global financial system in an open and permissionless way to further Block's mission of economic empowerment, with a global focus.
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced product counsel to join TBD, Block's newest business unit focused on DeFi and bitcoin. As Product Counsel, you'll have a broad range of responsibilities, working closely with the TBD team to provide legal guidance on product and feature development. You will partner with our product teams to develop new offerings while managing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance. As we expand our offerings, your ideas and contributions will make an immediate impact. You will work on legal issues for transformative financial products that require creative business solutions. You will report directly to the General Counsel of TBD.
This role is remote from the United States or Canada.
You Will:
Provide guidance to product, engineering, business, design and marketing teams on issues related to all TBD products and features throughout the entire product development lifecycle
- Draft terms of use, product policies, and disclosures, and implement related processes
- Provide business-oriented advice by balancing risks and business reward
- Remain up-to-date on relevant global industry, crypto, financial regulations, consumer protection, regulatory, advertising, IP, and privacy laws and regulations to provide an ongoing ability to provide risk-tolerant, compliance-oriented guidance
- Develop trusted relationships with business partners and stay informed on key product developments
- Work with other cross-functional teams (IP, privacy, tax, compliance, finance, security, and outside counsel) to provide seamless support to business partners
- Cultivate creative ideas and insights into how legal frameworks can support new product developments
Qualifications
You Have:
- 10+ years of combined, relevant experience in law firms, in-house legal departments, or governmental agencies.
- Sound business navigation skill, and creativity solving problems
- Experience with analytics, project management, and strong collaboration with partners
- Experience working with teams and contributing individually
- Work in an evolving and growing environment that is prone to changes
- A JD and active membership in at least one state bar
Even Better:
- Familiarity with launching products and advising on the legal and regulatory aspects of product development in the technology space
- Experience with bitcoin, FinTech regulations, cross-border payments
- An interest in bitcoin
#LI-Remote
Qualifications
You Have:
- 10+ years of combined, relevant experience in law firms, in-house legal departments, or governmental agencies.
- Sound business navigation skill, and creativity solving problems
- Experience with analytics, project management, and strong collaboration with partners
- Experience working with teams and contributing individually
- Work in an evolving and growing environment that is prone to changes
- A JD and active membership in at least one state bar
Even Better:
- Familiarity with launching products and advising on the legal and regulatory aspects of product development in the technology space
- Experience with bitcoin, FinTech regulations, cross-border payments
- An interest in bitcoin
#LI-Remote
