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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">About Uphold</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">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. Serving consumers, enterprises, and crypto treasuries, Uphold makes pioneering financial services easy and trusted for millions of customers in more than 140 countries.</span><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><br></span><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Uphold strips away the complexity and increases transparency to open up blockchain-powered finance for everyone. </span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: rgb(76, 92, 110); font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">To learn more about Uphold, please visit </span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https://uphold.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://uphold.com</a></span><span style=\"color: rgb(76, 92, 110); font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">.</span></span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">The Opportunity</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">The Associate General Counsel (AGC) will play a critical role in supporting the company’s legal strategy across commercial, regulatory, product, and corporate matters. This is a hands-on, highly cross-functional role ideal for a lawyer who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and enjoys solving complex legal challenges.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Working closely with the General Counsel and the broader Legal, Compliance, and business teams, the AGC will help the company scale responsibly, manage legal risk, and support high-impact business initiatives. This role offers significant ownership, exposure to executive leadership, and the opportunity to influence the company’s growth trajectory.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #434343; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Responsibilities</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Commercial &amp; Corporate Counsel</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial agreements, including technology, licensing, vendor, data, and partnership agreements.</span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><br></span></span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Support corporate governance, board materials, policy updates, and entity management.</span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><br><br></span></span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; 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