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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 600\">About Uphold</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(76, 92, 110); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">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.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(76, 92, 110); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Uphold strips away the complexity and lack of transparency to open up Web3 finance for everyone.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: rgb(76, 92, 110)\">To learn more about Uphold, please visit<span> </span></span><a href=\"https://uphold.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://uphold.com</a><span style=\"color: rgb(76, 92, 110)\">.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: rgb(76, 92, 110)\"><br></span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">The opportunity</span></span><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(76, 92, 110); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">The Senior Counsel will be responsible for general corporate matters, negotiating commercial agreements, and a key contributor to the design and implementation of risk management strategies and regulatory compliance alongside Uphold’s General Counsel, Associate General Counsel and the Compliance and Regulatory Affairs teams. The ideal candidate is a self-driven lawyer capable of taking full ownership of a wide variety of legal and risk management matters at the Company relevant to a highly regulated and fast-growing company. As a result, the Senior Counsel will play an important role in the success and continued growth of Uphold. This position is full-time and exempt, and based in New York.  The Senior Counsel will report to the General Counsel. </span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 600\">Responsibilities</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(76, 92, 110); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Negotiate, draft, and execute commercial agreements with technology partners and vendors.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(76, 92, 110); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Offer counsel on wide-ranging legal issues and advise executives within the company.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(76, 92, 110); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Work alongside other departments across the company, including HR, Security, Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, Product, and Engineering.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(76, 92, 110); 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