About the role

Electric Capital is a top early-stage venture firm investing in crypto and other frontier technologies. The Legal and Compliance team advises the firm on all legal and regulatory matters, and manages our compliance function.

We are looking for an experienced, agile and commercial-oriented lawyer to expand Electric Capital's legal and compliance throughput and unlock more business opportunities. As Electric's second lawyer, you will work closely with our investment team and have exposure to all areas of our rapidly growing business.

Move beyond traditional corporate and fund formation into the cutting-edge intersection of venture capital, cryptocurrency, and frontier technologies. This is an opportunity to dive into a space where regulatory frameworks are still being written, and investment opportunities present unique legal puzzles requiring innovative thinking. You'll work alongside the industry's brightest minds, tackling complex issues, and your expertise will drive business value in exciting emerging markets.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for finding creative solutions to mitigate legal and regulatory risk while enabling novel business strategies in one of the most dynamic and intellectually challenging areas of law today.

Reporting to the General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, and working closely with Electric’s co-founders and the rest of the Electric team, you will have primary responsibility to:

• Own legal work for all investments, including issuing term sheets, negotiating key terms, and conducting due diligence, and also advising on corporate matters post-investment, including shareholder consents, mergers and acquisitions, and the like;
• Negotiate key agreements with service providers, including prime brokers, custodians, borrowers;
• Be a subject matter expert on commercial terms of investments and other corporate matters, including entity structuring and applicable regulatory issues for investments;
• Drive legal work for funds and SPVs, including creating and revising agreements for new vehicles and advising on legal issues relating to those agreements, such as LP-specific matters, advisory board approvals, supervising and managing outside counsel as necessary, etc.;
• Stay up to date on regulatory developments and industry trends to ensure legal and regulatory matters relating to investment terms and process remain current and effective;
• Assist in supporting Electric’s compliance program, including: updating compliance policies and procedures to ensure compliance with applicable securities laws and regulations, monitoring investment activities for conflicts of interest and best execution, creating and updating policies and procedures relating to trading, and preparing regulatory filings.

Requirements

Candidates must have both a Bachelor’s Degree and Juris Doctor from top schools, and 6+ years of experience with:

• Counseling emerging growth and digital asset companies and investors on a broad range of transactional matters, including general business matters, corporate governance, and technology transfers, with a focus on venture capital financings and mergers and acquisitions.
• Proactive business mindset: someone who considers him- or herself a thought leader with impeccable organization, project management, and communication skills, all under tight deadlines.
• Advising senior executives on complex matters with limited information.
• Working in a fast-paced environment with high trust and low ego, and adjusting priorities in response to unanticipated events with minimal oversight.
• Improving processes and building out new systems from scratch.
• Toggling between strategic thinking and tactical execution.
• Building consensus among diverse stakeholders.

We are even more interested in chatting if you have

• In-house experience at a product-led company or a venture capital firm
• Deep understanding of blockchain, digital assets and the unique legal and business issues that investing in them presents
• Fund formation expertise, including fundraising, negotiating side letters, documenting transfers and other LP-related matters, and interpreting those agreements.

Compensation and benefits

Compensation: Competitive salary package $200,000-400,000 commensurate with experience. Potential for bonuses and participation in the firm's carried interest, which creates meaningful upside tied to our fund performance over time.

Benefits Package:

• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision)
• Generous 401(k) matching program
• Qualified team members may invest in Electric's future funds
• Home office setup budget to create your ideal work environment
• Lunch and snacks in office, along with other perks
• Professional development budget for conferences, courses, and learning
• Unlimited PTO policy, paid federal holidays, and ability to work from home 2-3 days per week

Work Environment:

• Small team, big impact: Join a lean, flat, extremely high-caliber team where your contributions directly shape both portfolio companies and the future of crypto.
• Hybrid-first approach: We trust you to do your job well regardless of location. Most team members work from our offices 2-3 days per week for collaboration and connection.
• Intellectual stimulation: Work at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and venture capital, gaining exposure to frontier technologies, top technologists, and the engineering-led investment strategies shaping the future of money.

Location: San Francisco (HQ) or New York

Our values

We hire teammates whose integrity and demand for excellence match our culture and values:

• Founders come first. We come second: Investors lose when they develop an ego or a sense of entitlement. Founders lose when they stop believing in themselves or their companies. Everything we do is in service of supporting the founders who are building iconic companies.
• Be honest: With yourself and with others. Stay honest when it is hardest to be honest; that is when it matters most.
• Have conviction: Work only with people we are willing to fight for and fight for them.
• Demand excellence: Demand excellence from yourself, your colleagues, and founders. Work only with exceptional people and give them tremendous trust. Be unabashedly ambitious.
• Think in decades. Act in seconds: As a venture firm we are investing for the very long term, but we move with the speed and urgency of the startups we partner with.

About Electric Capital

Electric Capital is a top early-stage venture firm that invests in the next generation of iconic frontier technology founders. As a highly technical, engineer-led VC firm with over $3B in assets under management, we leverage deep expertise in cryptography, distributed systems, and machine learning to identify and support the builders shaping the future.

We're often the first check into transformative companies. We invest at the idea stage and partner with founders through launch and scale. Our portfolio includes category-defining projects like Aven, Bitnomial, Bitwise, Celo, dYdX, Ellipsis, Kraken, Magic Eden, Monad, NEAR, and Re. Prior to Electric, our partners were early investors in companies like Airtable, Boom Supersonic, Color Genomics, Cruise, Figma, Material Security, Newfront Insurance, Notion, and Pulley.

Electric team members have collectively started eight companies (six acquired), shipped products used by billions of people, run billion-dollar business units, invested in 50+ startups that have a cumulative market cap of $50B+, and traded billions in esoteric derivatives. We don't just write checks — we partner actively with founders to solve complex technical and strategic challenges. Our offices are in San Francisco, New York, Toronto, and Tokyo. Find us at www.electriccapital.com.