Morpho Labs is hiring a General Counsel to scale the company's adoption by building and leading its Legal & Public Affairs function. In this role, you will empower leaders, strengthen credibility with partners and regulators, and enable faster execution through clear, risk-weighted decisions.
What You'll Do
- Build and scale a high-performing Legal & Public Affairs organization, empowering the existing team, designing the structure, hiring, and implementing scalable systems and playbooks.
- Own the Legal and Public Affairs roadmaps to ensure alignment with business priorities as the company grows.
- Lead US institutional readiness by negotiating complex, high-value partnerships, especially with US institutional and traditional finance entities, and building the frameworks to scale safely.
- Increase company velocity and decision quality by turning ambiguous, high-stakes topics into actionable paths with clear options, trade-offs, owners, and timelines.
- Represent Morpho externally with credibility as a senior face of the company with partners, counsel, policymakers, regulators, and ecosystem stakeholders.
What We're Looking For
- 15+ years of legal and public affairs experience.
- Significant in-house leadership experience in a high-growth tech or fintech environment.
- Web3/crypto exposure, including digital assets, DeFi, trading/lending, and the product/regulatory interface.
- Proven track record negotiating major, high-value partnerships, especially US institutional/TradFi-facing work, and operating effectively in the US context.
- Demonstrated ability to be a senior external representative with Tier-1 partners and regulators.
- Experience owning both Legal and Public Affairs strategy, including narrative, roadmap, and stakeholder management, while balancing both.
- Experience building and scaling teams through growth phases, including org design, hiring, performance management, and budgeting.
- Startup-compatible mindset, with agility and comfort using modern tools.
Team & Environment
You will build and lead the Legal & Public Affairs organization from the ground up.
Benefits & Compensation
- Fair, top-tier compensation
- Real flexibility
- Time together in Paris
- Great health coverage
- Support to keep learning
Work Mode
This role operates on a hybrid basis with a location in NYC.
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and hire based on talent, potential, and values alignment.
