Spark.Fi - General Counsel

Spark.Fi, built by deCircle, is building the financial infrastructure powering the next generation of institutional capital markets. You'll join as General Counsel, becoming Spark's principal legal advisor. You'll partner closely with leadership to enable commercial growth, support new products, and help navigate the evolving legal landscape surrounding digital assets and decentralized finance.

What you'll do

• Lead legal support across Spark's institutional products, including SparkLend, Spark Prime and Spark Savings.
• Draft, negotiate and manage complex commercial agreements with institutional counterparties.
• Structure strategic partnerships with banks, custodians, asset managers, fintechs and infrastructure providers.
• Support lending, financing and commercial partnership agreements.
• Build scalable contracting processes, legal playbooks and standard agreement templates.
• Partner closely with Business Development throughout enterprise sales cycles to accelerate commercial execution.
• Advise leadership on commercial negotiations, transaction structures and legal risk.
• Advise leadership on corporate governance and strategic legal matters.
• Support capital raises, strategic investments and corporate transactions.
• Manage external counsel across multiple jurisdictions.
• Assist with international expansion and entity structuring.
• Advise on DAO governance and decentralized governance frameworks where required.
• Support governance documentation and protocol-related legal matters.
• Oversee Spark's intellectual property strategy, including software licensing, open-source licensing and technology agreements.
• Develop scalable legal risk management frameworks.
• Support regulatory compliance initiatives and internal governance policies.
• Provide legal guidance relating to AML/KYC, sanctions and third-party risk where appropriate.
• Manage litigation and external legal disputes when required.

What you bring

• 10+ years of legal experience, with significant in-house experience.
• Qualified lawyer in a major jurisdiction (US, UK, EU or equivalent).
• Experience supporting high-growth technology or financial services businesses.
• Strong background negotiating complex commercial agreements.
• Experience advising executive leadership on strategic legal matters.

Nice to have

• Experience in financial infrastructure, capital markets, payments, fintech, enterprise software, institutional lending, digital assets, prime brokerage, custody or tokenized assets.
• Experience working within crypto or DeFi.

About deCircle

deCircle's Spark.Fi platform enables institutions to access on-chain lending, savings, liquidity and credit markets through transparent, scalable infrastructure, supporting global financial institutions operating on-chain.