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Tempo is hiring a Product Counsel

Responsibilities

  • Providing practical, risk-based guidance throughout the product development lifecycle to our product, engineering, and research teams.
  • Refine and implement compliance frameworks, policies, and procedures to keep the business ahead of evolving requirements and novel issues.
  • Support broader legal initiatives spanning a wide-range of areas including intellectual property, privacy, and other operational needs.
  • Monitor developments in crypto, fintech, and tradfi to advise the business on trends and evolving legal standards.
  • Anything else that needs doing!

Requirements

  • J.D. and admission to at least one U.S. state bar.
  • 8+ years of legal experience, including substantial time in-house at a high growth tech company and/or crypto project.
  • Deep product counseling experience.
  • Fluency in crypto legal issues, including substantial time advising on regulatory considerations for blockchain developers and networks.
  • Ability to balance legal risk with practical business judgment.
About company
Tempo

Tempo is a purpose-built, Layer 1 blockchain for payments, developed in partnership with leading fintechs and Fortune 500s. Tempo enables high-throughput, low-cost global transactions for any use case, including machine payments.

Designed for real-world payments via stablecoins, Tempo provides a blockchain infrastructure optimized for stablecoin transactions, offering instant, borderless, and programmable payments at scale. The network supports use cases such as remittances, global payouts, payroll, embedded finance, microtransactions, and agentic commerce.

Tempo features dedicated payment lanes, stablecoin-native gas fees, a built-in stable asset DEX, and structured payments metadata for seamless integration with enterprise systems. It offers deterministic settlement in approximately 0.6 seconds, modern wallet signing capabilities, and opt-in privacy designed in collaboration with regulated financial institutions.

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Department Legal
Category other
Posted 4 months ago