About Us

Babylon is building native use cases for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is an exceptional store of value, but historically difficult to use productively without introducing custodial or bridging risk. Babylon is changing this. Our flagship protocol for trustless Bitcoin staking has attracted more than $6B in native BTC TVL, and our trustless Bitcoin vault enables native BTC to participate in DeFi protocols across multiple ecosystems without bridging.

Our work sits at the intersection of Bitcoin, cryptography, and global regulation, raising novel legal and compliance questions around custody, staking, governance, and token usage that do not yet have clear regulatory playbooks.

We are a fast-growing, globally distributed team of researchers, engineers, and operators. Our culture is open, collaborative, and fast-moving, with a strong emphasis on ownership, judgment, and intellectual honesty.

Role Overview

Babylon Labs is looking for a Head of Legal to own the day-to-day legal function for a fast-moving Bitcoin-based DeFi protocol — trustless vaults, borrowing, lending, and yield products built on BTC. This is a hands-on, in-house role: you'll be doing the work directly and owning legal as the sole or near-sole in-house lawyer, rather than mainly managing a team or outside counsel. The role reports directly to the CEO.

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What you'll do

• Serve as the primary legal advisor across the business, handling most matters yourself and bringing in external counsel only when it's genuinely warranted
• Advise on regulatory questions in areas where the law is still developing — trustless custody and vaults, borrowing/lending, yield products, multisig, smart-contract control, and token/protocol structuring — applying sound judgment where clear precedent doesn't yet exist
• Support commercial, corporate, and operational legal needs with a generalist mindset (contracts, corporate matters)
• Assess risk pragmatically — weigh it honestly and help the business find compliant paths forward rather than reflexively blocking

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What we're looking for

• Several years of in-house legal experience at a crypto/Web3 company, at least some of it as the primary legal contact for the business, ideally with real DeFi exposure (not just general blockchain familiarity)
• A solid grasp of Bitcoin specifically — how BTC and self-custody work — and the legal questions unique to building lending, borrowing, and yield products on Bitcoin
• Sound judgment in areas where the law is still developing, and comfort advising without waiting for settled answers
• A generalist background — happy to cover a wide range of legal areas rather than a narrow specialty
• A self-starter, doer mentality — you'd rather solve it yourself than hand it off
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills

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