Procurement and Legal Lead

Overview

Intersect MBO is the member-based organization that underpins Cardano’s decentralized governance. Formed to ensure that the Cardano ecosystem remains community-led and self-sustaining, Intersect acts as both a convenor and enabler - connecting developers, Delegated Representatives (DReps), project teams, and members to shape the blockchain’s future collectively.

Through its committees, working groups, and open membership model, Intersect develops governance frameworks, coordinates ecosystem initiatives, and supports transparency across technical, strategic, and financial domains. Intersect operates independently of IOG, EMURGO, and the Cardano Foundation, while collaborating closely with them to deliver on Cardano’s long-term vision.

At its core, Intersect is about community governance in action, giving the people who build and use Cardano the power to guide its direction.

The Role

We’re looking for a Procurement & Legal Lead to help strengthen and mature our procurement, contracting and legal operations.

Reporting into the Director of Operations, and leading a team of one, this is a highly cross-functional role suited to someone who enjoys balancing commercial pragmatism with governance, legal awareness and operational enablement. You’ll partner closely with leadership, Finance, People, delivery teams, and external advisors to ensure Intersect can move effectively while managing risk responsibly.

Procurement & Supplier Management

• Lead procurement processes across goods, services, consultants, and external partners
• Establish and maintain clear procurement standards, governance pathways, and documentation
• Support supplier onboarding, due diligence, and relationship management
• Help ensure procurement decisions align with value-for-money principles and organisational priorities

Contracting & Legal Operations

• Manage contracts, agreements, and legal documentation 
• Coordinate contract review, negotiation, execution, and renewals
• Partner with external legal advisors where specialist support is required
• Support teams in navigating legal and contractual considerations in a practical, delivery-oriented way

Risk, Compliance & Governance

• Identify and manage procurement and legal risks across operational and delivery activities
• Support governance processes, audits, and compliance requirements
• Ensure contractual obligations and operational controls are appropriately tracked and maintained
• Contribute to improving organisational maturity around legal and commercial operations

Operational Enablement

• Provide clear, pragmatic guidance that helps teams move effectively without unnecessary friction
• Improve procurement and contracting workflows and documentation
• Balance delivery speed with proportionate legal and commercial safeguards
• Build trusted relationships across a remote-first, globally distributed organisation

Experience and attributes

• Strong experience in procurement, legal operations, contract management, or commercial operations
• Comfortable operating across legal, operational, and commercial contexts
• Experience managing contracts, contractors, suppliers, negotiations, and governance processes
• Strong judgement and ability to navigate ambiguity 
• Clear communicator who can translate legal or contractual complexity into practical guidance
• Experience working within startups, scaleups, technology organisations, nonprofits, or globally distributed environments is highly desirable

Additional strengths (this will strengthen your candidacy)

• Understanding of blockchain, Web3, DAOs, or decentralized governance models
• Familiarity with legal and operational considerations across England & Wales and Wyoming-based entities
• Experience supporting remote-first or international organisations

Compensation and benefits

Intersect offers a salary of up to £90,000 depending on experience and role alignment. Compensation at Intersect is informed by role archetypes, scope and accountability, and benchmarked against comparable global nonprofit and Web3 roles requiring similar skills, impact, and complexity. As part of our ongoing organisational development, we continue to evolve a role archetype and salary framework to bring greater clarity and consistency to compensation across Intersect.

This is a remote-first position, with some expectations of travel when required. There is the option to collaborate in person in our London workspace (Tower Hill) if you are based in London.

As a maturing start-up, we are in the process of evolving our benefits offering to ensure it reflects our community-first values and global workforce.

Hiring process

The suitable candidate will be selected through a three-stage recruitment process. All interviews will be conducted remotely via Google Meets.

1. Introductory Call: An initial conversation with our Head of People to confirm alignment and suitability for the role.
2. Formal Interview: A detailed interview to assess experience and fit from both technical and team perspectives. This will likely include a take-home-task to complete and present in this interview. 
3. Final Stage: A competency-based assessment and additional opportunity to ask questions.

Intersect is an equal-opportunity organization. We value diversity of thought, identity, experience, and culture and are committed to building a leadership team that reflects the decentralized community we serve.

To learn more about Intersect MBO and what we do, please visit our Knowledge Base - https://docs.intersectmbo.org/