Counsel, Corporate and Regulatory

Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is looking for a versatile and mission-driven attorney to join our growing legal team as Corporate and Regulatory Counsel. In this role, you will be a "generalist with a specialization," owning the fundamental corporate legal functions that keep our Foundation running while serving as a strategic advisor on the complex regulatory frameworks governing digital assets, stablecoins, and decentralized finance. You will work at the intersection of law, technology, and financial access, ensuring that SDF remains a compliant and influential leader in the global blockchain ecosystem.

In this role, you will:

- Provide corporate/corporate governance counsel:

- Entity Management: Oversee the legal lifecycle of the Foundation and its subsidiaries, ensuring all corporate filings, registrations, and "good standing" requirements are met across all operating jurisdictions.

- Corporate Secretarial Duties: Help to maintain official corporate records and serve as an internal governance resource.

- Provide regulatory strategy and advice:

- Regulatory Analysis: Assist as an internal subject matter expert on the evolving global legal status of blockchain, tokenization, digital assets and decentralized finance.

- Interpretive Guidance: Provide high-level legal interpretations of new guidance, interpretation, rules and legislation that impact the Stellar ecosystem’s long-term viability.

- Precedent Monitoring: Track and analyze litigatio...