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title: 'Senior Counsel at Wormhole Labs'
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# Senior Counsel at Wormhole Labs

- **Company:** Wormhole Labs
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wormholelabs/05d4bd28-f7bc-4128-b05e-8faeff9cb3b1

## Job description

Wormhole Labs is a pioneering blockchain technology company building decentralized systems for a freer and fairer global economy. We're reshaping financial infrastructure across the entire crypto stack, from core protocol development to trading systems and user-facing applications. At our core, we're technology innovators bridging traditional finance with the emerging possibilities of crypto. Our seasoned team leverages deep technical expertise to develop solutions that advance the industry. We're seeking talented individuals who share our vision and have the technical prowess to help build it. Join us! As General Counsel at Wormhole Labs, you will build and own the legal function of the company end-to-end across regulatory, corporate, commercial, employment, IP, and litigation matters. You will serve as the senior legal voice for the executive team and operate as a hands-on partner to engineering, product, business development, and finance.

## What you will do

- Own regulatory strategy across the US (SEC, CFTC, FinCEN, OFAC, state MTLs) and key non-US jurisdictions (MiCA, FCA, MAS); engage directly with regulators when needed.
- Lead deal work: M&A, strategic investments, financings, joint ventures, etc.
- Draft, negotiate, and operationalize the full commercial contract stack: customer, partner, vendor, BD, integration, and protocol partnership agreements.
- Partner on global employment matters like offer letters, contractor agreements, immigration, separations, and policy.
- Oversee IP strategy, open-source licensing posture, and trademark portfolio.
- Run litigation, regulatory inquiries, subpoenas, and enforcement matters; select and manage outside counsel; control legal spend.
- Advise on privacy, data, and sanctions compliance across product surfaces.
- Structure and maintain the company's corporate architecture across multiple entities
- Operate as a business-minded partner to engineering, product, BD, and finance: integrated into the process with fast turnarounds and clear guidance.

## What you bring

- 8+ years of legal practice with strong law firm training.
- JD and active US bar admission (any state).
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a sole legal lead, comfortable being the only lawyer in the room and the last set of eyes before something ships.
- Substantive command of US financial services and securities regulation as applied to digital assets.
- Track record running M&A, financings, and complex commercial negotiations to close.
- Pragmatic risk judgment. You know the difference between a real risk and a hypothetical one, and you don't hide behind the second to avoid taking a position.
- High-trust communicator who can deliver bad news to founders, executives, and counterparties without theatrics.
- Comfortable in a remote-first, async, global environment with a travel cadence to match.

## Requirements

- Prior experience advising a crypto, DeFi, or fintech company, in-house or as outside counsel.
- Experience structuring multi-entity setups, including offshore affiliates and operating subsidiaries.

## Benefits

Competitive salary and restricted token units, dependent on position type and location. Discretionary bonus dependent on company performance. Note: We will only respond to applications that meet our requirements. If you don't get a response, please assume a polite decline.

## About Wormhole Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Wormhole Labs develops open-source blockchain interoperability technology to enable seamless communication and asset transfer across multiple blockchain networks.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup)
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first; operates across the United States, Sweden, India, Germany, and the United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Tony Jin (Co-Founder & CTO), Anthony Ramirez (COO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Blockchain Infrastructure / Cross-Chain Interoperability
- **Target Customers**: B2B — blockchain developers, decentralized application (dApp) builders, protocols, and enterprises building multichain applications
- **Mission**: "To radically reduce the friction of building multichain applications" and create a boundaryless blockchain world where users can ignore the underlying technology or dive deep if they choose.

## Products & Services
- **Wormhole Protocol**: The core open-source blockchain messaging protocol that enables cross-chain communication, asset transfers, and data passing between over 30+ blockchains (including Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, and others).
- **Wormhole Connect**: A frontend SDK and widget that allows developers to integrate cross-chain functionality into their applications with minimal code.
- **Wormhole Queries**: A system for syncing data across EVM chains and Solana, enabling efficient cross-chain data retrieval.
- **Example Swap Layer**: A reference implementation for a Uniswap-based swap layer integrated with the Wormhole Liquidity Layer.
- **Solana World ID Program**: An on-chain template bringing Worldcoin's World ID identity verification to the Solana ecosystem.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/ Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — not publicly disclosed; company is believed to be well-capitalized given its roots in Jump Trading/Jump Crypto (founders and many early team members came from Jump)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 
  - **AMD** — collaborating on FPGA accelerators to enhance blockchain connectivity
  - **Jump Trading / Jump Crypto** — key talent source and likely strategic backer
  - **Uniswap** — via the example swap layer integration
  - **Worldcoin** — via the Solana World ID integration
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 35.7% YoY (from ~9 to 12 employees)
  - Monthly headcount growth of 5.6%
  - Team spans 5 countries with 42% in the US
  - 63 public repositories on GitHub with active open-source contributions
  - High LinkedIn engagement on partnership announcements (e.g., AMD collaboration received 380+ reactions)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep expertise**: Team hails from quantitative trading (Jump Trading), venture capital, and enterprise software backgrounds — bringing a rare combination of financial rigor and blockchain engineering depth.
- **Open-source leadership**: Actively contributes to the core Wormhole protocol and maintains 63 public repos, fostering developer trust and ecosystem adoption.
- **Cross-chain ubiquity**: Supports 30+ blockchains, making Wormhole one of the most widely integrated interoperability protocols in the industry.
- **Security-first approach**: Emphasizes secure development practices and partners with hardware leaders (AMD) for FPGA-accelerated blockchain connectivity.
- **Remote-first culture**: Ability to attract top global talent without geographic constraints.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening interoperability**: Continuing to expand the number of supported blockchains and improve cross-chain messaging efficiency.
- **Developer experience**: Making multichain development as simple as single-chain development through SDKs, widgets, and reference implementations.
- **Identity and composability**: Exploring cross-chain identity solutions (e.g., World ID on Solana) and composable liquidity layers.
- **Hardware acceleration**: Partnering with AMD to leverage FPGA technology for faster, more secure blockchain connectivity.
- **Growing the team**: Actively hiring across engineering (Rust, Solana, frontend), product design, and legal functions.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Team operates fully remote, working US Eastern Time hours, allowing for flexible location arrangements.
- **High agency, low ego culture**: The company explicitly seeks "customer obsession, high agency, and extreme ownership" — valuing impact over hierarchy.
- **Cutting-edge blockchain work**: Employees work on one of the most widely used interoperability protocols in the industry, solving genuinely hard distributed systems problems.
- **Diverse, global team**: Colleagues from quantitative trading, venture capital, and enterprise software backgrounds across the US, Europe, and Asia.
- **Open-source impact**: Contributions are public, visible, and directly used by developers building on 30+ blockchains.
- **Growth trajectory**: Small team (~12 people) with rapid growth — offering outsized ownership and impact for early employees.
- **Current open roles** (as of mid-2025): Senior Product Engineer, Solana Protocol Engineer, Full-Stack Blockchain Engineer, Creative Director, General Counsel — indicating expansion across engineering, product, and leadership.

## Sources
1. [wormholelabs.xyz](https://www.wormholelabs.xyz/)
2. [LinkedIn - Wormhole Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wormholelabs)
3. [Built In - Wormhole Labs Careers](https://builtin.com/company/wormhole-labs-wormholelabsxyz)
4. [Built In - Wormhole Labs Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/wormhole-labs-wormholelabsxyz/jobs)
5. [GitHub - Wormhole Labs](https://github.com/wormholelabs-xyz/)
6. [Ashby Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wormholelabs)

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