Vice President Legal

Overview

We’re hiring a practical, service-led VP of Legal who keeps velocity high and risk low, builds simple systems that scale, and partners with engineers and researchers. You will make Legal AI-first through automated workflows, training, and clear guardrails, so teams can ship fast without avoidable risk or bureaucracy.

Lead legal for AI, crypto/web3, employment, corporate, fundraising, data, and IP.

Build and execute lightweight, scalable, AI-first legal systems that keep velocity high and risk low in a deep-tech startup.

• Translate company strategy into a quarterly legal plan (owners, SLAs, decision rights).
• Prioritise work against risk and business impact.
• Build and lead the legal function; manage and coordinate outside counsel.

• Summarise UK/EU/US AI regulatory changes into short notes, checklists, or FAQs the teams can actually use.
• Review key AI initiatives on request to confirm they meet baseline legal and compliance expectations while keeping delivery fast.

• Advise on token, staking, and reward mechanics, focused on public-benefit and regulatory alignment.
• Maintain a regulatory map across UK/EU/US (FCA, MiCA, SEC/CFTC and similar).
• Design and maintain crypto/web3 policies, disclosures, and monitoring where appropriate.
• Maintain board hygiene, cap table, equity and incentive schemes, and entity structuring.
• Support fundraising (equity rounds, SAFEs, structured/token-related elements) and investor processes.
• Ensure accurate and compliant disclosures to investors and relevant authorities.

• Advise on UK & US employment law across policies, hiring, restructures, investigations, and terminations.
• Build scalable, consistent employment frameworks for org growth.

• Build a contracts engine: templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and AI-assisted redlining.
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