About Uphold
Uphold is a financial technology company that believes on-chain services are the future of finance. It provides modern infrastructure for on-chain payments, banking and investments. Offering Consumer Services, Business Services and Institutional Trading, Uphold makes pioneering financial services easy and trusted for millions of customers in more than 140 countries.
Uphold strips away the complexity and lack of transparency to open up Web3 finance for everyone.
To learn more about Uphold, please visit https://uphold.com.
The opportunity:
Uphold is looking for a Legal Admin to join our Legal team. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity where you’ll be responsible for managing contract workflows from intake to signing to renewal, organizing and cataloging legal documents and other ad-hoc projects. Reporting to the General Counsel, the Legal Admin will play an integral role in ensuring the organization meets its financial and strategic objectives.
What you’ll be doing primarily:
- Managing the workflow and lifecycle of all contracts the company enters into.
- Allocating and helping to prioritize tasks for the Legal team.
- Coordinating the collection of sensitive information from control persons and responding to various document requests from business partners and regulators.
- Acting as a liaison between the Legal department and other functional areas of the company, including Finance, Regulatory Affairs, IT/Security, Marketing and others.
- Coordinate all board and committee meetings.
- Creating and maintaining organizational structure of electronic files.
- Ensuring all legal records are filed appropriately, with key contractual data entered into a contract management system.
Required qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree.
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience.
- Experience utilizing Excel or Google Sheets.
- Excellent communication skills and a team player.
- Keen eye for detail and organizational skills.
- Exhibit our core cultural values: clear communication, positive energy, continuous learning, and efficient execution.
- Fluent written and oral English skills.
Bonus if you have:
- Experience with capital markets, cryptocurrencies, and/or blockchain technologies.
- Paralegal experience/qualifications.
- Experience with contract management systems.
What we have to offer you:
- An amazing work environment in a company that continues to grow, driven by extraordinary and passionate people that keep up innovating and challenging more each day.
- An international team, in a cutting edge field, working on the most fascinating projects.
- Growth and career opportunities, and the chance to be proactive and creative.
- A flexible and enthusiastic work environment that offers you snacks, a lot of coffee and other great benefits.
- Open and transparent culture - we get together on a weekly basis to share updates, strategic plans, and engage with each other informally over food and drinks.
- Interesting events that keep you connected with the team and celebrate our success.
Salary: $70K - $85K + bonus
Be part of a great company that is revolutionizing the financial services. Apply now!
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