Contracts and Legal Operations Lead

About the Company:

World is a network of real humans, built on privacy-preserving proof-of-human technology, and powered by a globally inclusive financial network that enables the free flow of digital assets for all. It is built to connect, empower, and be owned by everyone.

This opportunity is with Tools for Humanity

Location: San Francisco

Our Legal team is dedicated to supporting the Worldcoin open-source protocol by managing Tools for Humanity’s legal affairs globally. We collaborate across the company to advance the blockchain project and enhance our products, including the Orb (our hardware device), World ID, World App, and World Chain. We work closely with the Worldcoin Foundation and other partners to ensure regulatory compliance in areas such as securities, AML/CFT, consumer protection, litigation, trade, intellectual property, and labor. We value creativity, curiosity, and a shared sense of urgency and purpose. 

We are seeking an experienced and Legal Operations Manager to join our dynamic legal team at Tools for Humanity. This is a unique opportunity to shape our legal operations processes and leverage the work of our legal department. This role requires a proactive individual with exceptional organizational skills and the ability to manage complex projects across multiple jurisdictions. If you are passionate about your work and eager to contribute to a groundbreaking blockchain project, we invite you to join us in our mission.

In this role, you will: 

• Oversee our contract management lifecycle, including maintaining contract templates and handling contract renewals 

• Improve the operations, systems, and ongoing innovation of the legal team, collaborating with existing Legal Operations leadership and team attorneys

• Vet new technologies to improve our processes, drive support for them and implement them

• Support and manage legal relationships with vendors and consultants

• Support stock and token administration in Carta and our token database

• Work with legal service providers worldwide to implement our contracts internationally

• Work cross-functionally with our user-facing teams and finance

• Manage our financial relationships with external law firms

• Prepare standard NDAs and contracts, involving attorneys as necessary

• Operate independently, but also use judgment for when to loop-in attorneys.

• Use tech literacy, common sense, and help from attorneys to build systems that support monitoring and testing, training, timely reporting.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (e.g., Paralegal certificate or Rechtsanwalt- und Notariatsgehilfe), graduate degree in relevant field preferred but not required.

• 5-10+ years of experience working as a consultant, project manager, financial compliance manager or paralegal, especially at a financial institution, e-Money/payments company, law firm, or other FinTech.

• Highly organized, obsessed with getting the details right, capable of defining and executing a process from start to finish, and proven ability to oversee multiple concurrent projects.

• Excellent written communicator, able to present complex issues clearly and concisely, whether extemporaneously on Slack, in emails, or in memoranda and other more formal documents.

• Facility with program management, love of using technology solutions to help scale a team’s processes, and comfort with GSuite applications, Microsoft Office, and other tech SaaS tools (such as SQL, Looker, Figma, Slack, AirTable, etc.).

• Positive collaborative attitude, comfort with change and a fast pace, high level of integrity, and insatiable intellectual curiosity.

• An open and collaborative office space in downtown SF 

• Unlimited PTO  

• Monthly Phone Reimbursement or a company device

• Daily in-office catered meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)

• Top-tier medical, dental, vision insurance 

• 401k + employer match program 

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at TFH in San Francisco ranges from $160,000 - $190,000, plus a competitive long term incentive package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, TFH offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, vision and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, life insurance, flexible time off, commuter benefits, professional development stipend and much more!