Legal and Compliance Associate (Operations)

Valory

Mission

Valory creates open-source software for co-owned AI, enabling joint operation and control of AI software for novel use cases in crypto, science, and enterprise. Our mission is to empower communities, organizations, and countries to co-own AI systems, starting with decentralized autonomous agents. We believe Artificial General Intelligence will likely be agentic and must be co-owned. Read more about our values.

Products

We co-founded Olas DAO for co-owning AI, created the Olas Stack, an open-source framework for creating AI agents and the Olas Protocol, a blockchain protocol for incentivizing their creation.

Team

Valory is the VC-backed team of engineers, researchers and commercial executors that raised a successful Seed round and executed a successful public token launch for the Olas DAO.

The Role

You will be a steady hand for our AI and crypto startup, helping us to operate smoothly and compliantly. You will be exposed to everything from cutting-edge legal issues concerning crypto and AI to the more common employment and contracting laws and regulations across the dozen jurisdictions in which we work. You will maintain a separation between the for-profit company, Valory, and third parties like the DAO and foundation.
We retain excellent external council, which you will liasie with on a regular basis.
This role will use their expertise to assist the Head of Operations and CEO in doing what is advisable in-house, providing perspective on council’s view, liaising with external council on a regular basis, and in balancing attention to detail with prioritization to unblock operations and the wider company.

Main Duties

• Support the Head of Operations and CEO, driving improvements in operations, particularly compliance.
• Create, maintain, audit and drive improvements across operations, particularly compliance including internal audits, due diligence, tracking contracts, tax reporting, IP registration and monitoring, to ensure we meet our obligations to others and vice versa.
• Informing, writing, and executing agreements and contracts with customers, suppliers, partners and other parties on behalf of the company.
• Liaise with expert lawyers and external council, obtaining targeted answers and advice regarding priority issues to the company’s processes and practices.
• Maintain and communicate the high standards expected internally and from collaborators, defending the company’s interests in contracts, communications, etc.
• Inform and support the rest of the company (e.g. marketing and product teams) to ensure consistency and compliance with applicable laws, and regulations across our products, marketing, policies and practices.
• Keep up to date with relevant laws and regulations across key jurisdictions we work in, using this knowledge to inform your work.

Requirements

• Ability to work in line with our values
• A law degree or equivalent qualification with a focus on relevant areas (e.g., corporate or employment law).
• 3+ years of experience in a law firm and/or as in-house counsel in a similar company (EITHER in industry or geography, i.e. AI/crypto OR a company operational in one or more relevant jurisdictions).
• Experience creating, maintaining and improving in-house compliance/legal processes and documents systematically.
• Ability to navigate and interpret legal and regulatory frameworks in an applied setting.
• Ability to balance a high level of attention to detail with a high level of prioritization.
• Strong communication skills, written and spoken, for a variety of audiences.
• Bonus: experience in BOTH an AI/crypto company and one that is operational across several relevant jurisdictions.
• Strong preference for time zone between UTC -2 to UTC +6.

Equal opportunity

We are an equal opportunity workplace.
We want folks who add diversity on as many axes as possible to bring their expertise, encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply, and are committed to promoting equality of opportunity.
We prohibit discrimination or harassment based on protected characteristics (including gender, race, ethnicity, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or marital status).
We also respect the wishes of individuals to protect their anonymity online and encourage individuals who operate under pseudonyms to apply.

The Opportunity

• Generous salary and equity compensation, accounting for benefits.
• Remote (Valory is a fully distributed team from day one with biannual meetups).
• Be a part of a unique and novel project that will push web3 forward and be harnessed in whichever domain crypto goes – finance, media, data, identity.
• You will work on a unique software stack and product with a team of world-class software engineers, researchers, and product experts across multiple fields.
• You will collaborate with teams across crypto and our community of agent developers.
• You will redefine how developers build off-chain services in DeFi and long into web3’s future.