Head of Legal

As Head of Legal at Allium, you own the day-to-day legal work and build the practices that support the company as it grows. Your initial focus will be commercial contracts, data licensing, and technology transactions. Data rights are central to Allium's business: permitted use, redistribution, derived data, and AI all shape what the company can build and how it serves customers. You work closely with the founders and leaders across Finance, Sales, Product, and Engineering, with outside counsel available for specialist matters and additional capacity.

What you'll do

• Lead commercial contracting by drafting and negotiating enterprise customer agreements, data licenses, partnerships, and vendor contracts, and work with Sales and Finance to resolve issues and move deals through to signature.
• Shape Allium's data and IP rights by establishing practical positions on data acquisition, permitted use, redistribution, derived data, AI use, and post-termination rights, and align supplier rights with the commitments made to customers.
• Advise on products and partnerships by working with Product and Engineering early on new offerings, and translate privacy, IP, and regulatory considerations into clear recommendations that help teams make decisions.
• Build legal operations by developing templates, negotiation playbooks, approval guidelines, intake workflows, and a reliable contract repository, and use AI and automation thoughtfully with appropriate confidentiality protections and human review.
• Coordinate broader legal needs by partnering with leadership and outside counsel on corporate governance, financings, employment matters, compliance, and other issues as they arise, and manage priorities, specialist support, and legal spend.
• Make obligations actionable by helping teams understand the commitments in contracts and policies, and work with the right owners to put them into practice.

What you bring

• Strong experience independently leading complex commercial negotiations for a technology, SaaS, financial data, or related business.
• Depth in data licensing or technology transactions, including IP rights, data use, confidentiality, liability, indemnification, and privacy provisions.
• Experience advising business teams directly, ideally in-house, and translating legal analysis into clear decisions and workable alternatives.
• A track record of building or improving legal templates, playbooks, and processes, with sound judgment about when to push and when to bring in specialist counsel.
• Clear writing, strong negotiation skills, and trusted working relationships with technical and commercial teams.
• Ownership and adaptability: you can manage competing priorities, follow through on details, and create structure while staying close to the work.
• A J.D. or equivalent legal qualification and active admission to a U.S. state bar, with eligibility to practice in-house in the role's location.

Nice to have

• Working in a small legal team or helping build a legal function.
• Experience with financial market data, fintech, payments, AI, or blockchain-related products.
• Selling to financial institutions or other sophisticated enterprise buyers.
• Privacy, product counseling, or public-sector contracting.

What we offer

• Medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance. US employees receive 100% coverage for Gold plans and 80% coverage for dependents.
• Meaningful early-stage equity. Every full-time employee receives a stock option grant.
• Flexible, trust-based paid time off. Allium encourages people to take the rest they need, and policies meet or exceed local statutory vacation requirements in every country where it hires.
• Company-sponsored 401(k) plan in the US for pre-tax retirement savings.

About Allium

Allium is building the system of record for onchain finance. The company ingests, verifies, and standardizes data across 140+ blockchains and 30+ petabytes of history, closing the gaps that prevent blockchains from becoming systems of record for institutions. Allium is used by Visa, Stripe, G-SIB Banks, Big 4 Accounting firms, BCG, Coinbase, Phantom, and Uniswap, and has been cited by the Federal Reserve.