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# Commercial Counsel at Notabene

- **Company:** Notabene
- **Location:** Europe
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/notabene/b1bd1d2d-5492-4f39-9dd2-a45caa7c68e5

## Job description

## About Notabene

Notabene is building infrastructure that’s transforming how money moves in the digital economy. We’re evolving beyond our compliance foundations to enable the next generation of digital financial services between regulated institutions with unprecedented efficiency. With nearly 50 employees across 14 countries and having recently closed our Series B round last November with support from leading investors including Y Combinator, DRW, F-Prime, Jump Capital, Castle Island, and Green Visor Capital, we’re looking for people like you to help shape the future rails of the crypto industry!

## The Role

We're seeking a commercially minded Commercial Counsel based in Europe to work closely with and support our General Counsel, who is based in the New York City area. You'll help manage sophisticated international commercial transactions with leading global banks, financial institutions, and other multinational companies, advise internal business teams, and support the development of our legal operations and AI capabilities. This is a hands-on role requiring strong commercial judgment, technical understanding, and the ability to navigate complex legal and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions worldwide.

Where You’ll Work This is a 100% remote role open to candidates based in Europe.

## What You’ll Be Doing

- Draft, review, and negotiate complex SaaS, partnership, and other commercial agreements, including DPAs, DORA Addenda, information security exhibits, and jurisdiction-specific regulatory and outsourcing addenda.
- Support the General Counsel in managing international commercial negotiations, while independently handling assigned contracts and projects.
- Implement AI-powered legal tools, improve contracting workflows, and drive legal operations and process improvements.
- Work with Security, Engineering, and other technical teams to ensure contractual commitments accurately reflect Notabene's technology, security controls, and operational practices.
- Advise Sales, Customer Success, and other teams on commercial legal matters and prepare the agreements, templates, and other documents they need.

## What You’ll Need

- Native-level or fully fluent written and spoken English, with a track record of independently drafting and negotiating complex legal documentation in English.
- Fully qualified lawyer in an EU jurisdiction with 3–5 years of post-qualification experience, ideally gained within top-tier law firms, fast-growing tech environments, or a mix of both.
- Extensive experience driving end-to-end negotiations for complex enterprise technology agreements, particularly with highly regulated or global corporate clients.
- Strong foundation in European regulatory frameworks relevant to tech companies, including data protection, privacy, and sector-specific operational/outsourcing requirements, along with the ability to adapt to international regulatory regimes.
- A commercially minded approach to risk management - able to balance business growth with legal exposure, articulate clear risks to stakeholders, and discern strict legal/regulatory imperatives from negotiable commercial points.
- Ability to deliver rapid turnarounds in a fast-moving startup environment, with the willingness to work flexibly across international time zones.

## About Notabene

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Notabene is building the open trust layer for global payments, providing a platform for compliant stablecoin and crypto transactions between financial institutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Pelle Braendgaard (CEO) and Alice Nawfal (COO) [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/notabene)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Regtech (Crypto Compliance) / Blockchain Services / Payments Infrastructure.
- **Target Customers**: B2B, specifically financial institutions, including banks, exchanges, stablecoin issuers, wallet providers, payment orchestrators, and fintechs. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/notabene-id)
- **Mission/Purpose**: To enable trusted, compliant, and instant global money movement by automating pre-transaction decision-making. [notabene.id](https://notabene.id/)

## Products & Services
- **[Notabene Flow](https://notabene.id/)**: The first open stablecoin payments platform for businesses. It introduces new payment capabilities like pull payments (invoicing), push payments (disbursements), and recurring subscriptions for stablecoins.
- **[Notabene Transact](https://notabene.id/)**: The world's largest Travel Rule-compliant transaction authorization platform for regulated institutions. It automates compliance workflows and enables real-time transaction authorization.
- **[Transaction Authorization Protocol (TAP)](https://notabene.id/)**: An open protocol that standardizes how counterparties discover, validate, and authorize crypto transactions before funds move. It is the foundational layer for the Notabene ecosystem.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $26.6M. The platform has processed over $1 trillion in compliant transaction volume annually across 2,000+ verified entities in 100+ jurisdictions. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/notabene-id) [notabene.id](https://notabene.id/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: DRW Venture Capital (led Series B), Jump Capital, F-Prime (led Series A), Castle Island Ventures (led Seed). [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/notabene) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/notabene-id)
- **Growth Signals**: 85% of transactions have straight-through processing. Company has seen +25.5% headcount growth year-over-year. Actively hiring for 10+ roles across sales, customer success, product, and engineering. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/notabene-id) [notabene.id](https://notabene.id/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open Standard (TAP)**: Building on an open protocol creates a network effect, making it the default standard for pre-transaction messaging in crypto, similar to SWIFT for traditional banking.
- **Deep Compliance Expertise**: First-mover advantage in solving the complex FATF Travel Rule compliance for crypto assets across over 100 jurisdictions.
- **Dual-Product Strategy**: Combines a high-volume compliance network (Transact) with a new revenue-generating payments platform (Flow), creating a powerful ecosystem.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling Stablecoin Payments**: The launch of Notabene Flow signals a strategic pivot from pure compliance to actively building the rails for the stablecoin economy, focusing on recurring and pull payments.
- **Global Network Expansion**: Continues to add verified financial institutions to its network to strengthen the liquidity and utility of its platform.
- **Protocol Adoption**: Driving adoption of the open-source TAP protocol as the industry standard for secure and compliant crypto transactions.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: Opportunity to work on a critical infrastructure problem at the intersection of finance, crypto, and regulation.
- **High-Growth Environment**: The company is growing rapidly (+25% YoY headcount) and has strong financial backing from top-tier VC firms. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/notabene-id)
- **Remote-First Culture**: Notabene is a global, remote-friendly company with employees in over 15 countries (including the US, UK, Netherlands, Germany, and Singapore). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/notabene-id)
- **Strong Engineering Culture**: As a Y Combinator alum (Summer 2020) building an open protocol and platform, the team has a strong technical and product-focused ethos. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/notabene)

## Sources
1. [Notabene Official Website](https://notabene.id/)
2. [Notabene Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/notabene)
3. [Notabene on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/notabene-id)
4. [Notabene on Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/notabene)

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