[Remote] Chief Legal Officer (Equity)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Press Labs, Inc. is seeking a senior legal executive to lead its legal function and advise leadership as the company develops and commercializes PressChain, PRESS-related infrastructure, and related technologies. The role protects the company’s legal interests and supports corporate governance, digital asset and blockchain matters, product and regulatory strategy, commercial relationships, and dispute management.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the principal internal legal advisor to Press Labs, Inc., its Founder and Chief Executive Officer, executive leadership, and authorized corporate decision makers
• Advise leadership regarding corporate governance, fiduciary responsibilities, board procedures, stockholder matters, corporate approvals, resolutions, capitalization, subsidiaries, organizational structure, and major corporate actions
• Maintain or supervise the maintenance of material corporate legal records, approvals, agreements, board materials, governance documentation, capitalization records, and other required corporate records
• Review significant company decisions for legal, contractual, regulatory, governance, and liability implications before execution
• Establish internal legal policies, approval procedures, delegation authorities, documentation standards, and risk controls appropriate for a growing technology company
• Help ensure that corporate actions are properly authorized, documented, and consistent with the company's governing documents and applicable law
• Advise the company regarding the evolving legal and regulatory environment applicable to blockchain infrastructure, decentralized systems, digital assets, token economics, validators, protocol participation, bonding mechanisms, governance systems, and related technologies
• Analyze the legal implications of PRESS token utility, distribution, incentives, rewards, governance functionality, protocol participation, ecosystem payments, validator economics, and other token-related activities
• Help establish a legally defensible distinction between PRESS utility and activities that could create unnecessary securities, commodities, money-transmission, banking, or other financial regulatory exposure
• Coordinate with securities, commodities, financial regulatory, tax, and digital asset specialists when specialized advice is required
• Help structure products and ecosystem activities to reduce unnecessary regulatory exposure while preserving legitimate technical and commercial utility
• Review public descriptions of PRESS, token functionality, economic incentives, protocol participation, and related systems to reduce the risk of inaccurate, misleading, or legally problematic representations
• Monitor material regulatory developments involving the SEC, CFTC, FinCEN, state regulators, courts, Congress, and other authorities that could affect Press Labs, PressChain, PRESS, or related technology
• Assist leadership in developing policies relating to token allocations, ecosystem incentives, contributors, validators, treasury management, governance, and other areas that may have legal implications
• Advise on legal issues arising from PressChain's development as verification and trust infrastructure serving media, artificial intelligence, commerce, institutions, and other industries
• Evaluate legal issues relating to provenance records, evidence submission, identity verification, reputation systems, TrustScore methodologies, attestations, validators, trust records, and blockchain-based records
• Develop appropriate terms, disclaimers, governance standards, participation rules, and risk controls governing how users, businesses, publishers, developers, validators, institutions, and other participants interact with PressChain
• Help distinguish technological verification, provenance, reputation, evidence, and trust infrastructure from legal determinations, professional certifications, factual guarantees, credit ratings, endorsements, or other representations that could create unnecessary liability
• Review new PressChain products, protocols, features, APIs, verification systems, and enterprise services before public release for material legal and regulatory risks
• Advise the company regarding liability associated with user-generated evidence, disputed information, verification results, reputation scores, permanent records, identity information, and third-party reliance on PressChain data
• Help develop governance and dispute-resolution frameworks appropriate for decentralized and semi-decentralized systems

Skills

• Experience serving as General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, senior in-house counsel, corporate counsel, or outside counsel advising technology companies
• Experience with venture-backed startups, emerging technology companies, or founder-led businesses
• Experience with blockchain, digital assets, cryptocurrency, Web3 infrastructure, financial technology, decentralized systems, or related emerging technologies
• Experience with securities offerings, venture financings, capitalization matters, investor transactions, and corporate governance
• Familiarity with intellectual property strategy, patents, trademarks, software licensing, trade secrets, and technology transactions
• Familiarity with privacy, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data governance, and enterprise software regulation
• Experience managing litigation, regulatory matters, and outside counsel
• Experience advising companies operating across multiple jurisdictions or regulated industries
• Experience working directly with founders, boards, investors, and senior executive leadership

Benefits

• The Chief Legal Counsel will be eligible for an equity grant ranging from 3% to 7% of Press Labs, Inc., with the final percentage determined according to experience, qualifications, level of involvement, responsibilities assumed, pre-funding contribution, expected long-term commitment, and the final negotiated agreement.

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