Deputy General Counsel, Regulatory & Litigation

Tools for Humanity•San Francisco, CA

7d•$297,500 - $350,000•Onsite

About The Position

Tools for Humanity (TFH) is seeking a Deputy General Counsel, Regulatory & Litigation to lead the company’s global regulatory strategy and litigation efforts. This role will be responsible for advising executive leadership on complex and emerging regulatory issues, developing strategies for regulatory engagement, and managing global litigation across various areas including commercial, regulatory, employment, consumer protection, and intellectual property. The position also involves crisis management, cross-functional advisory, and building a high-performing legal team. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in regulatory and/or litigation matters within the technology or highly regulated business sectors, exceptional business judgment, and strong leadership and collaboration skills.

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.
Exceptional business judgment and the ability to balance legal risk, operational realities, and business objectives.
Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving legal and regulatory environments where clear precedent may not exist.
Strong executive presence and sound judgment under pressure.
Proven ability to build trusted relationships across legal, product, policy, communications, security, and executive leadership.
Excellent communicator capable of translating complex legal and regulatory issues into practical, business-oriented guidance.
Experience building or scaling legal teams, processes, and operational frameworks in a fast-growing organization.
A collaborative, low-ego working style.
Juris Doctor from a top-tier law school
Membership in at least one U.S. state bar
Ability to work in-person from San Francisco, CA

Nice To Haves

Deep expertise in regulatory and/or litigation matters and sufficient breadth to lead across the broader portfolio; equally deep experience in every subject area is not required.

Responsibilities

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, 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, 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.