General Counsel

What you’ll be part of:

With the mission “To raise global economic prosperity through programmable internet commerce,” Circle was founded on the belief that blockchains and digital currency will rewire the global economic system, creating a fundamentally more open, inclusive, efficient and integrated world economy. We envision a global economy where people and businesses everywhere can more freely connect and transact with each other with new technologies for digital money. We believe such a system can raise prosperity for people and companies everywhere.

What you’ll be responsible for:

You will serve as a critical member of the executive leadership team while also overseeing Circle’s legal team. Reporting to Founder, Chairman and CEO Jeremy Allaire, you will provide commercially-minded legal support for all aspects of Circle’s new and existing initiatives, partnerships, and products.

What you'll work on:

• Articulate and craft the right legal approach across the spectrum of:
  • Commercial contracts required to enable Circle to scale its technology platform business globally
  • Building out new lines of business
  • Helping drive and manage complex transactions (M&A, Equity, and Strategic Partnerships).
• Assist in managing Circle’s domestic and global regulatory requirements
• Participate in government relations
• Handle legal affairs for corporate governance, intellectual property, litigation, employment, and international and domestic expansion.
• Act as the Secretary to our Board of Directors, including advising on corporate governance
• Responsibly manage Circle’s legal team and budget

What you’ll bring to Circle:

• A strong interest in the potential for businesses of all sizes to harness the power of digital currency and blockchain technology and services built on top of it.
• Demonstrated ability to operate both in a hands-on, operations-focused manner as well as to think about the longer term implications of, and opportunities for, our strategy.
• Optimistic, hard working, thorough, product-minded attitude as a team leader who, throughout an organization’s evolution, thrives on being a mentor and coach for the members of his/her team, believes in performance management and goal setting, and succession planning.
• Demonstrated experience embracing values consistent with Circle’s including being mindful and driven by excellence, possessing high integrity, and believing in the importance of a “multistakeholder” approach to work, namely that Circle organizes, incentivizes, and measures itself against meeting the needs of all of Circle’s stakeholders - its customers, shareholders, employees and families, local communities, and world.
• Track record of managing priorities based on both commercial intuition as well as risk assessment.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally to manage company risks, including business continuity planning, data security, and privacy-related matters.
• Previous experience managing to a budget, including outside counsel and other relevant third parties.
• 10+ years of experience, of which at least half is in-house, and is experience which ideally (but not necessarily) has included at least 1 year:
  • in the fintech ecosystem and
  • of international scope, including but not limited to entity and employment structure, commercial contracts, registration, and licensing.
• Experience working within, or demonstrated deep appreciation of, complex regulatory environments.
• Ability to work productively as the Secretary to our Board of Directors, including advising on corporate governance.