Legal Counsel, WalletConnect

• This role is designed for someone who wants to be in the weeds
• We’re looking for someone technically curious, comfortable with ambiguity, and excited about using AI tools to accelerate legal workflows
• Qualified lawyer with 5-9 years of post-qualification experience
• Experience in product, commercial and/or technology law
• You’ve drafted and negotiated commercial agreements at pace
• Strong understanding of payments, fintech, or financial services regulation — you know how regulated products get built and shipped
• Experience working closely with product and engineering teams — you’re comfortable in technical conversations and can translate legal requirements into actionable guidance
• International and cross-border legal awareness — comfortable working across jurisdictions and navigating multi-market regulatory complexity
• Proactive, autonomous working style — you take ownership and take initiative to collaborate with other teams
• Enthusiastic about AI-assisted legal workflows — you actively use or want to use AI tools for contract review, drafting, research, and knowledge management

Desirable

• This is a Legal Counsel position reporting directly to the Chief Legal Officer. You’ll be a critical legal partner for WalletConnect’s product, commercial and engineering teams — embedded in the work, not advising from the sidelines
• You’ll provide real-time legal guidance on product features, review and negotiate commercial agreements, and navigate the regulatory landscape across payments, crypto-assets, and data protection
• You’ll work alongside product managers and engineers as features are being designed and help the team ship with confidence
• On the commercial side, you’ll own the contract lifecycle for merchant, PSP, and partner agreements — building scalable templates and processes rather than handling one-off bespoke deals
• Day-to-day, you’ll split your time across product legal counselling, commercial contract work, and regulatory support
• You’ll work across jurisdictions — easily spanning U.S., UK, EU, LatAM and APAC markets — and collaborate closely with the Chief Legal Officer on strategic priorities
• Serve as a key legal partner for product teams — provide real-time guidance on product features, user flows, and technical architecture from a legal and regulatory perspective
• Embed in the product development lifecycle: participate in design reviews, plan for legal and compliance risks early, and help teams ship confidently within regulatory boundaries
• Advise on data protection, privacy, and consumer-facing legal requirements across product surfaces
• Monitor and interpret regulatory developments affecting product design — stablecoin frameworks (EU MiCA, U.S. Genius Act), payments regulation, and data protection (GDPR, international equivalents)
• Translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into actionable product guidance that engineering and product teams can work with directly
• Support the contract lifecycle for merchant, PSP, acquirer, and partner agreements — drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and closing
• Build and maintain scalable contract templates and playbooks that enable the BD team to move faster with less legal dependency
• Support commercial negotiations with a pragmatic, deal-enabling mindset — balancing risk management with commercial velocity
• Develop standardised legal processes for recurring deal types, reducing turnaround time and creating repeatable frameworks
• Review third-party agreements and assist with onboarding procedures
• Support analysis of payments licensing, stablecoin regulation, and crypto-asset compliance across key jurisdictions (U.S., EU, and other markets)
• Support licensing applications and regulatory filings as WalletConnect Pay expands into new markets
• Track and advise on evolving regulatory frameworks and cross-border payments regulation
• Support the Chief Legal Officer on corporate governance, fundraising documentation, and strategic legal initiatives as needed
• Contribute to internal legal knowledge — build training materials, FAQs, and self-serve resources that reduce the legal team’s reactive workload
• Support data protection and privacy requirements and initiatives
• Use AI tools (contract review, drafting, legal research, internal materials) to accelerate legal workflows and improve team productivity
• Opportunities to travel to conferences and community events