Sei Development Foundation
General Counsel
New York City
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 72 days ago
ComplianceCorporate LawCadenceLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- The Sei Development Foundation (SDF) is hiring a General Counsel - the first internal legal owner and the person who turns legal and compliance from a fragmented outside-counsel patchwork into a real, business-speed function.
- Over time, you'll become the organizational owner of legal risk and the person leadership turns to before any high-stakes decision.
Responsibilities
- Own all legal, regulatory, and compliance functions across the foundation and its ecosystem activities, including non-profit compliance, contracts, grants, investments, partnerships, and policy work
- Serve as the legal lead on token-related activities, including grants, investments, and structuring decisions
- Lead the transition of Blockchain Association and Digital Chamber policy work into SDF, including the structural and compliance implications of operating under non-profit status
- Own marketing communications review across the organization, building a process that scales with the business and never becomes a bottleneck
- Manage outside counsel relationships across multiple jurisdictions, with clear ownership of what stays in-house vs. what gets sent out, and disciplined oversight of spend against budget
- Build the compliance program from scratch - AML/sanctions controls, KYC frameworks where applicable, internal policies, and entity-level governance
- Own regulatory engagement strategy for digital asset and stablecoin developments, including proactive positioning with regulators rather than reactive response
- Infrastructure & Systems Building
- Build a complete legal template library: contracts, grant agreements, vendor agreements, investment docs, and a comms-review framework that any team can self-serve against
Requirements
- Exceptional communicator with a track record of translating complex legal concepts into clear, practical guidance for non-technical stakeholders, including C-suite
- Comfort working in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment where regulatory ground shifts and execution speed is a competitive advantage
- Experience at a top-tier law firm with a Web3, fintech, or capital markets practice
- Direct experience with non-profit or foundation compliance, including grant frameworks and policy-association governance
Skills
- Stand up a risk register and reporting cadence so leadership has real, current visibility into legal exposure
- Translate complex legal concepts into clear, practical guidance for non-legal stakeholders
Benefits
- Experience advising on complex financial products and equity or token structures, with the judgment to make fast calls on novel questions
Company info
- Sei is the first parallelized layer 1 blockchain.
- By re-writing the most widely adopted execution environment in Web3, Sei is setting a new standard in blockchain performance and scalability.
- Apps on Sei benefit from both the performance of web2 and the decentralization and sovereignty of web3.
- For more detailed information visit Sei's official website https://www.seifdn.org.
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