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# Corporate Counsel at Hivemind Capital Partners

- **Company:** Hivemind Capital Partners
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $150k–$165k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/hivemind-capital/c7a0caca-938b-4900-bcb8-1e99eed822f4

## Job description

We are looking for an ambitious and proactive Associate Counsel to join our growing Legal Team. As Associate Counsel, you will provide legal advice and help ensure efficiency in legal processes and operations. Day-to-day, you will have the opportunity to support a broad range of legal work, including contract drafting and negotiation, deal execution, regulatory filings, legal research, fund formation and maintenance and various special projects. You will work within a team of accomplished and supportive attorneys to find novel solutions to complex legal and regulatory challenges. No one day will look exactly the same as the next. This role is perfect for those that thrive in a dynamic startup environment, are energized by new challenges, and want to broaden their experience through highly varied work.

What you'll do:

- Provide substantive support for transactions and deals (including fund launches and venture investments)
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts, including investor related agreements, vendor agreements and NDAs
- Provide legal advice on general corporate matters, governance and regulatory matters affecting the business and its initiatives
- Support business teams on operational, commercial, and strategic initiatives from a legal perspective
- Manage and mitigate legal risk in day-to-day business operations
- Liaise with external counsel on specialized legal matters
- Maintain corporate records and ensure compliance with statutory obligations and filings
- Participate in knowledge sharing – preparing commentaries and speaking on panels at conferences

Our ideal candidate:

- 3+ years of experience in a legal counsel role, preferably in private practice and/or in the Finance sector
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school
- Admitted to the New York State Bar Association
- Knowledge of digital assets is preferred but not essential
- Sound judgment and decision-making in a fast-paced environment
- Strong drafting, negotiation, and analytical skills
- Ability to provide practical, commercially minded legal advice
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex legal issues to non-legal stakeholders
- Strong organizational skills, capable of managing multiple priorities and deadlines
- High degree of ownership and autonomy

## About us

Hivemind Capital Partners is a global investment group operating at the intersection of traditional finance and the onchain economy. Founded in 2021, Hivemind allocates institutional capital across a diverse set of investment strategies, and implements technology infrastructure to help assets and institutions transition onto blockchain rails with discipline, durability, and scale.

## About Hivemind Capital Partners

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hivemind Capital Partners is a global investment group that allocates institutional capital across digital asset strategies and builds infrastructure to help assets and institutions transition onto blockchain rails.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture capital / asset management firm)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Matt Zhang

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Financial Services – Digital Asset Management, Venture Capital, and Blockchain Infrastructure
- Target customers: Institutional investors, crypto-native teams, and portfolio companies seeking capital and operational support
- Mission or purpose: “Investors, architects, and innovators of the digital economy” – focused on institutionalizing digital asset investing with discipline, durability, and scale.

## Products & Services
Hivemind operates as a multi-strategy investment firm with several verticals:

- **Discretionary & Quantitative Trading**: Liquid asset strategies across spot, perpetuals, futures, options, convertible debt, and public equities.
- **Venture Capital**: Equity investments in early-stage blockchain and Web3 companies (e.g., Zynk Labs, Otonomi, RD Technologies, Asigna, Bloctopus).
- **Staking & DeFi Infrastructure**: Capital deployment into staking, mining, and decentralized finance applications, plus internal infrastructure for on-chain operations.
- **Portfolio Management & Data Infrastructure** (via Blueprint, a Hivemind Digital company): Unified platform for staking, portfolio management, and data.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private firm)
- **Key Metric**: Assets Under Management (AUM) – $220.9M as of latest available data [caplight.com](https://www.caplight.com/investor/hivemindcapital)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Hivemind is a fund itself; its investors are institutional LPs (not publicly named). Key partners include portfolio companies such as Algorand, RD Technologies, and Blueprint.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Portfolio of 21 companies [caplight.com](https://www.caplight.com/investor/hivemindcapital)
  - Active job postings up 33% year-over-year [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/hivemindcapital)
  - Offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Shanghai [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/hivemind-capital)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Multi-strategy approach**: Combines liquid trading, venture capital, and infrastructure building under one roof – rare in the crypto space.
- **Deep institutional DNA**: Founder Matt Zhang spent 15 years at Citi (global head of structured products). Partners have backgrounds at Goldman Sachs, Algorand, Mastercard, and Stanford.
- **Regulatory focus**: Portfolio company RD Technologies is among the first batch of entities admitted to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority stablecoin sandbox, signaling compliance expertise.
- **Hybrid infrastructure**: Has built internal staking, DeFi, and data tools (Blueprint) that can be used by both the firm and external clients.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue to scale AUM across liquid and venture strategies.
- Lead investments in infrastructure, programmable money, and virtual worlds.
- Develop and deploy technology (e.g., Blueprint) to bridge traditional finance and on-chain rails.
- Expand geographic presence in Asia and Europe.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Hybrid workspace (3 days in-office, 2 days remote) with up to 6 weeks of “Work From Anywhere” allowance per year [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/hivemind-capital).
- **Compensation**: Offers equity, performance bonuses, and competitive total rewards.
- **Diversity**: Mean gender pay gap below 10%; hiring practices promote diversity.
- **Family benefits**: Generous parental leave, family medical leave.
- **Development**: Online course subscriptions, personal development training, and conference attendance.
- **Team**: Small, high-impact team (~27 total employees, 6 in product + tech). Key executives have deep experience at Citi, Algorand, Mastercard, and Stanford.
- **Engineering environment**: Uses AWS, JavaScript, Node.js; focus on building infrastructure for digital assets.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/hivemindcapital)
2. [Built In Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/hivemind-capital)
3. [Caplight – Hivemind Capital AUM & Portfolio](https://www.caplight.com/investor/hivemindcapital)
4. [Hivemind Capital Team Page](https://www.hivemind.capital/company/team)
5. [Hivemind Capital Job Board](https://jobs.hivemind.capital/)

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