Legal Manager

About Morpho

Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol that recently secured $50 million in funding from Ribbit Capital, a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Brevan Howard, Pantera, Blocktower, and 50 others to support its mission of revolutionizing lending with an open, efficient, and resilient platform. Morpho is experiencing explosive growth, with over $9 billion in assets supplied on the protocol, solidifying itself as the new standard for DeFi lending. Now, Morpho is scaling its team of contributors to establish itself as a cornerstone - not just of DeFi, but of a new internet-native financial system.

Location

Paris or Remote with ability to frequently travel to Paris and within +/- 1h

Mission & Responsibilities

As Morpho’s Legal Manager, you will oversee the full spectrum of legal matters, supporting and empowering the business to achieve its goals. You will work closely with leadership on high-impact projects and strategic decision-making.

• Deals Management (30-40%)

  • Team Coordination: coordinating with the different teams (Growth, Integration, Marketing) to understand the business needs and priorities

  • Term Sheet management: pro-actively thinking of terms that align with Morpho’s business goals and mitigate main risks

  • Contract negotiation: negotiating with the other parties, including with large Tier 1 institutions, and getting the full contract signed

• Product & Regulatory across the stack (terms of use, memos, third-party agreements) (25%)

  • Producing documents that can support the Morpho ecosystem in understanding the regulatory context

  • Working closely with the Product team to reflect this in the products (terms of use, warnings, wordings, etc)

  • Providing legal support answers when asked by actors of the ecosystem

• Corporate, Tax (25%)

  • Corporate: global entity structure

  • Tax: working closely with the Head of Finance to provide advice on complex tax treatments, with the support of specialized counsel

• Everything Else Legal & Team Support (10-20%)

  • Creating strong relationships with the team to ensure they involve you in all crucial topics requiring legal support

  • Provide assistance where needed (IP, labour law, consumer, etc) and ensure nothing blocks delivering.

Must-have Experience & Skills 

• 5+ years of professional experience including as in-house lawyer in a Fintech startup, CEX or crypto project

• Generalist, comfortable working on a variety of topics that stretch across regulatory, IP, commercial, corporate, tax, etc.

• Prior experience in crypto or use of crypto on a personal level

• Proven ability to be business-oriented and support company growth initiatives

• Strong negotiation skills, experience negotiating business deals

• Experience with French environment, ideally speaks French

Soft Skills

• Low Ego, high ownership

• Comfortable providing legal advice in areas where regulation is still evolving

• Team oriented, collaborative and able to create strong relationships with all teams

• Startup agility: “no task too small”, can get operational when needed, strong bias for action.

• Strong communicator, makes legal concepts accessible and adapts to their audience

What we offer

You will join one of the most important DeFi protocols. We are a really ambitious team, shipping fast with an entrepreneurial mindset. We offer:

• A very stimulating environment. Our team members are among the best researchers and engineers on Crypto/DeFi topics and we like to share our knowledge internally, namely through our weekly “DeFi school” session.

• The opportunity to contribute to one of the top Decentralized Lending protocols.

• Team events including off-sites, bootcamps, and afterworks, even when you’re remote.

• An attractive package including Morpho tokens .

Ready to shape the future of finance?

We are looking forward to receiving your application.