Deputy General Counsel, Regulatory & Litigation

Tools for Humanity Corporation

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Develop and lead the company’s global regulatory strategy across financial services, crypto-assets and blockchain, digital identity, consumer protection, payments, platform and technology regulation, and other legal and regulatory frameworks applicable to the company’s products, services, and operations.
• Advise executive leadership on complex and emerging regulatory issues involving digital assets, token issuance and distribution, blockchain networks, wallets and payments, digital identity, consumer protection, financial services, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies.
• Develop and lead strategies for regulatory engagement, licensing and registration matters, supervisory relationships, regulatory examinations, investigations, enforcement actions, and related government inquiries across multiple jurisdictions.
• Lead significant regulatory inquiries, examinations, investigations, and enforcement matters, coordinating strategy across Legal, Policy, Communications, Product, Compliance, and Market Operations.
• Monitor global legislative, regulatory, and enforcement developments, assess their potential impact on the company and the World network, and translate emerging risks and opportunities into practical, business-oriented guidance.
• Lead the company's global litigation strategy across commercial, regulatory, employment, privacy, consumer protection, intellectual property, and other disputes.
• Manage significant litigation, arbitrations, investigations, enforcement actions, and other high-risk matters from strategy through resolution.
• Direct outside counsel, oversee litigation budgets, and advise executive leadership on legal, business, and reputational risk.
• Lead the legal response to significant litigation, regulatory, and enforcement matters.
• Develop crisis-response frameworks and lead the legal response to high-impact litigation, regulatory enforcement, and compliance matters.
• Serve as the primary legal partner for Trust & Safety on non-privacy matters and advise executive leadership on strategic litigation and regulatory issues.
• Partner closely with Product, Market Operations, Commercial, Privacy, Corporate, Employment, and Policy teams to support product launches, regulatory engagement, and business initiatives.
• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing Regulatory and Litigation legal team.
• Build scalable litigation and, regulatory, and compliance operations, including playbooks, response frameworks, matter management, reporting, litigation holds, knowledge management, and other systems that improve organizational readiness, consistency, responsiveness, and effectiveness.
• Develop documentation, training, and self-service resources that enable the business to identify, manage, and appropriately escalate legal and compliance risk.

🎯 Requirements

• 10-15+ years of experience as a regulatory, litigation, investigations, or enforcement attorney at a leading law firm, government agency, or in a senior in-house legal role supporting a technology company or other highly regulated business.
• Significant experience managing complex litigation, regulatory inquiries and examinations, government investigations, and/or enforcement matters across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience advising executive leadership on high-stakes legal, regulatory, business, and reputational issues.
• Solid working knowledge of U.S. employment law (including wage-and-hour, discrimination, whistleblower, and termination-related risk)
• General fluency in data privacy laws and frameworks sufficient to identify privacy-related litigation and regulatory risk and partner effectively with the DPO and Privacy counsel.
• Juris Doctor from a top-tier law school
• Membership in at least one U.S. state bar

🏖️ Benefits

• Collaborative, creative office space in San Francisco
• Flexible, unlimited PTO
• Monthly phone reimbursement or company-provided device
• 3 meals/day served in house
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental health coverage
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Commuter benefits and professional development stipend
• Reasonably estimated salary for this role at TFH ranges from $297,500 - $350,000, plus a competitive long term incentive package.
• Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience.
• In addition, TFH offers a wide range of best-in-class, comprehensive, and inclusive employee benefits for this role, including healthcare, dental, vision, 401(k) plan and match, life insurance, flexible time off, commuter benefits, professional development stipend, and much more.

Skills & Technologies

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$297k-350k

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About Tools for Humanity Corporation

Tools for Humanity is a technology firm that builds biometric identity systems and cryptocurrency payment infrastructure. It develops the Worldcoin protocol, which uses iris-scanning hardware called the Orb to create unique human identifiers and distribute digital tokens. The company operates globally, focusing on secure, privacy-preserving identity verification and financial inclusion through blockchain technology.

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