Job Description

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

Location: Remote UK

Employment Type: Full time

Department: Legal

About the Company

The digital world is ready for reinvention - and Starknet is where it’s happening.The Starknet Foundation is a specialised team stewarding the growth and development of Starknet - a fast, scalable, future-proof, and fully-verifiable Layer 2 built on Ethereum. Our mission is to scale Ethereum and Bitcoin without compromising on security or decentralisation, making powerful and accessible applications possible for all.We’re a team of senior specialists - operators, engineers, researchers, and ecosystem leaders - working with a shared sense of purpose. We move fast, think independently, and operate with a deep commitment to merit, integrity, and long-term value.Our work spans the full arc of ecosystem growth: from education and developer tooling to grants, public goods funding, startup support, and strategic partnerships. Whether you’re building a product, scaling a business, designing infrastructure, or exploring new use cases - we’re here to help bold ideas succeed on Starknet.We believe meaningful progress comes from unconventional minds - people who challenge assumptions, build with purpose, and care deeply about impact.If that sounds like you, we’d love to connect.

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