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About the role
- Assistant General Counsel owning commercial contracts and broad legal matters for Gauntlet’s onchain finance products. Building scalable legal processes alongside the General Counsel.
Responsibilities
- Own commercial contracting end to end, including client and institutional agreements, partner and protocol arrangements, and other business agreements
- Negotiate directly with counterparties and their counsel
- Advise Product and Engineering on onchain product development and legal or regulatory constraints
- Cover corporate, governance, equity and financing, employment, IP, privacy, marketing, disputes, and regulatory matters alongside the General Counsel
- Partner with the Head of Compliance to align contractual commitments, policies, and controls
- Determine what should be handled in-house and where outside counsel adds value
- Improve legal intake, contract management, templates, playbooks, and team processes
- Use AI and automation across drafting, review, intake, and contract management
- Serve as the General Counsel's second-in-command and cover when they are unavailable
- Report to the General Counsel and work closely with company leadership
Requirements
- Strong commercial contracting experience, including drafting, negotiating, and closing a high volume of varied agreements
- Time in-house, ideally at a company with a small legal team where you were expected to work independently
- Breadth across several legal areas rather than a single specialty, and ability to get up to speed quickly on unfamiliar issues
- Experience building templates, playbooks, processes, or tooling that make routine legal work easier to handle
- Experience working directly with Product, Engineering, Finance, People, Compliance, or other business teams
- Ability to give clear, practical guidance and manage risk without defaulting to the most conservative answer
- Good judgement and confidence to raise concerns directly
- Comfort working in a growing company where priorities and legal questions change
- Willingness to stay close to the detail and do the work yourself
- JD
- Active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar
- Bonus: experience in crypto, digital assets, fintech, financial services, or onchain financial products
- Bonus: familiarity with legal and regulatory questions facing traditional and onchain finance
- Bonus: experience advising on financial products or working with sophisticated institutional counterparties
- Bonus: experience supporting financings, equity matters, corporate governance, or regulatory work
- Bonus: experience using AI, automation, contract lifecycle tooling, or other legal technology
Benefits
- Remote first — work from anywhere in the United States
- Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees
- $1,000 WFH stipend
- Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data
- Unlimited vacation
- 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks
- Fertility benefits
- Opportunity for incentive compensation
- Equity in the company
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