• Permissionless nature leads to fragmentation of meaning

• Decentralization leads to too many standards

• Fragmented standards

• Exponential complexity

• No accountability for interpretation

• Events without economic meaning

• Semantic Gap: Translating raw events into financial concepts like payments, trades, deposits, and staking income

About the role

You’ll own our day-to-day legal work and build the practices that support Allium as we grow. Your initial focus will be commercial contracts, data licensing, and technology transactions. Data rights are central to our business: permitted use, redistribution, derived data, and AI all shape what we can build and how we serve customers.

You’ll work closely with our founders and leaders across Finance, Sales, Product, and Engineering, with outside counsel available for specialist matters and additional capacity. This role suits someone who enjoys personally drafting and negotiating agreements while building a legal function at a Series B startup. You’ll have substantial ownership from the start and a direct role in how Allium builds products, structures partnerships, and serves customers.

What you’ll do

• Lead commercial contracting. Draft and negotiate enterprise customer agreements, data licenses, partnerships, and vendor contracts. Work with Sales and Finance to resolve issues and move deals through to signature.

• Shape our data and IP rights. Establish practical positions on data acquisition, permitted use, redistribution, derived data, AI use, and post-termination rights. Align supplier rights with the commitments we make to customers.

• Advise on products and partnerships. Work with Product and Engineering early on new offerings. Translate privacy, IP, and regulatory considerations into clear recommendations that help teams make decisions.

• Build legal operations. Develop templates, negotiation playbooks, approval guidelines, intake workflows, and a reliable contract repository. Use AI and automation thoughtfully, with appropriate confidentiality protections and human review.

• Coordinate broader legal needs. Partner with leadership and outside counsel on corporate governance, financings, employment matters, compliance, and other issues as they arise. Manage priorities, specialist support, and legal spend.

• Make obligations actionable. Help teams understand the commitments in our contracts and policies, and work with the right owners to put them into practice.

What we’re looking for

• 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.

Experience that would be helpful

• Working in a small legal team or helping build a legal function.

• 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.

• The Information's Top 50 Startups (https://www.allium.so/post/allium-named-to-the-informations-50-most-promising-startups-of-2025)

• Tomasz Tungus from Theory Ventures: https://tomtunguz.com/allium/

• Bucky Moore from Kleiner Perkins: https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/allium-series-a/

• Obsessiveness - The best people at Allium cannot put a problem down once they pick it up. We care more about the work than is strictly rational. Institutions trust us because our data is right. Right means caring about the small things. The decoded contract that ships with one wrong field. The label that is 99% accurate but wrong on the address that matters. The query that runs in 4 seconds when it should run in 400 milliseconds. Most companies tolerate these. We do not.

Administrative Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and AD&D insurance - US folks get 100% coverage for Gold plans, 80% for dependents