Senior Legal Counsel

Lido Labs Foundation, an independent organisation dedicated to supporting the growth and resilience of the Lido protocol, is seeking an experienced Senior Legal Counsel.

This role offers the opportunity to support commercial strategy, shape key partnerships, and build scalable legal frameworks that enable the secure expansion of the Lido ecosystem.

You will work closely with contributors across the ecosystem, helping teams navigate contractual matters, manage risk, and move forward confidently in a fast-moving, decentralised environment.

Key Scope

• Review, draft, negotiate, and advise on a broad range of commercial contracts, including strategic partnerships, integrations, client services, and vendor arrangements.

• Collaborate closely with contributors across the ecosystem to ensure contractual alignment with the protocol’s broader goals and initiatives.

• Support contract management, negotiation workflows, and risk assessment processes.

• Provide practical legal advice on new opportunities, ecosystem initiatives, product integrations, and commercial partnerships.

• Proactively identify, analyse, and mitigate legal risks, balancing commercial opportunity with sound risk management.

• Support the development of legal frameworks that strengthen the resilience and scalability of the Lido ecosystem.

• Contribute to thought leadership initiatives around decentralised protocols, open-source ecosystems, and legal innovation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience at a law firm and/or in-house, with significant exposure to complex commercial transactions.

• Deep experience drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts.

• Strong commercial judgment, with the ability to make practical, risk-based decisions in a fast-moving environment.

• Ability to work autonomously and proactively identify issues, propose solutions, and drive matters forward.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate complex legal topics into clear, actionable advice.

• Comfortable working with decentralised teams, open-source initiatives, or protocol-based ecosystems.

• Demonstrated interest in crypto, DeFi, decentralised governance, or open-source ecosystems preferred.

• Fluency in Russian is strongly preferred, as the role will involve Russian-language documentation and collaboration with Russian-speaking counterparties/contributors.

Key Factors

• Contribute remotely

• Competitive compensation

• Flexible schedule

• Compensation for education, equipment & co-working

• Overseas conferences, community immersion

If this challenge sounds appealing and you are excited to help build resilient legal infrastructure for one of crypto’s most important protocols, we would love to hear from you.