marketing
Posted 3 hours agoMarketing Counsel
at Stellar3
New York, United StatesHybrid
negotiation$50,000
Requirements
- Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today.
- This is a rare opportunity for someone who wants meaningful ownership, close partnership with senior business leaders, and room to build deep expertise at the intersection of blockchain, payments, digital assets, advertising, consumer protection, and global public policy. In this role,
- Experience drafting, reviewing, or negotiating marketing, advertising, SaaS, services, event, sponsorship, strategic partnership, grant, or similar commercial agreements. - Interest in SDF’s mission and curiosity about blockchain, digital assets, payments, and open-source technology.
- Prior blockchain or crypto
- Experience in blockchain, digital assets, crypto, payments, fintech, financial services, or another regulated technology sector. - Prior in-house
- experience supporting marketing, product, advertising, media, or other fast-moving business teams. - Familiarity with smart contracts, open-source technology, or the Stellar ecosystem. -
- Experience supporting product launches, product marketing, user-facing flows, or technical content for external audiences. -
- Experience with grants, sponsorships, marketing development funds, ecosystem funding, or partner incentive programs. -
- Experience supporting events, conferences, sponsorships, speaker programs, attendee terms, waivers, or international event logistics. -
- Experience with trademark portfolios, brand policies, naming reviews, rebrands, trademark clearance, contested IP matters, or online brand protection. -
- Experience creating practical legal resources, such as templates, playbooks, guidelines, training, intake processes, or self-serve review frameworks. - Active membership in the California or New York bar.
Benefits
- Bonus Points if (optional): -
- We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $165,000 - $225,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
- In addition, we offer lumen-denominated grants along with the following perks and
- benefits: USA Benefits/Perks: - Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents - Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break - Generous paid parental leave for all parents, plus paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents - Gym reimbursement ($80 per month) - Life & ADD (up to $50K) - Short & Long term disability - 401K with 4% match - Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts - Commuter
- benefits with $250/month employer contribution - Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution - Family building
Additional details
- Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.
- Marketing Counsel at SDF is a high-impact role at the center of how SDF shows up to the world.
- You will partner across Marketing, Communications, Product, Business Development, Ecosystem, Policy, and Legal to help teams move quickly while keeping external messaging, campaigns, grants, product launches, events, brand protection, and partner-facing work aligned with SDF’s legal, regulatory, reputational, and mission-driven priorities.
- This role extends well beyond traditional marketing review: you will advise on high-volume public-facing assets, strategic communications, marketing grants, major events, digital properties, brand and IP matters, and scalable legal processes that help SDF tell its story responsibly in a fast-moving industry.
- experience is helpful, but strong marketing and advertising legal judgment is more important. - Motivation to build practical legal processes, templates, playbooks, training, and workflows that help teams move efficiently while maintaining appropriate legal and compliance guardrails.