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Gauntlet is seeking an Assistant General Counsel to serve as the second senior lawyer on the legal team, working alongside the General Counsel to build and scale the legal function.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own commercial contracting end-to-end: client and institutional agreements, partner and protocol arrangements, and other business agreements. Negotiate directly with counterparties and their counsel, including sophisticated institutional clients.
- Advise Product and Engineering teams as they design and ship onchain products, translating legal and regulatory constraints into practical guidance.
- Cover the broader legal docket including corporate and governance matters, equity and financing support, employment questions, IP, privacy, marketing review, disputes, and regulatory work.
- Partner with the Head of Compliance to ensure contractual commitments, policies, and controls remain aligned.
- Help determine what should be handled in-house versus where outside counsel adds value.
- Improve legal intake, contract management, templates, playbooks, and processes to help the small legal team scale effectively.
- Leverage AI and automation across drafting, review, intake, and contract management.
This role offers significant autonomy and the opportunity to shape how the legal function develops as the company grows. You will work closely with the General Counsel and company leadership, taking ownership of meaningful work from day one. The work is varied—one week may focus on institutional agreements, the next on product launches, employment issues, financing matters, or regulatory questions.
The company is remote-first with regular in-person retreats and cross-country office visit perks. Benefits include 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums, $1,000 WFH stipend, monthly reimbursement for home internet/phone/cellular, unlimited vacation, 12 weeks 100% paid parental leave, fertility benefits, and opportunity for incentive compensation.
Requirements:
- Strong commercial contracting experience: drafting, negotiating, and closing a high volume of varied agreements.
- In-house legal experience, ideally at a company with a small legal team where you worked independently.
- Breadth across several legal areas (not a single specialty) with ability to get up to speed quickly on unfamiliar issues.
- Experience building templates, playbooks, processes, or tooling that make routine legal work easier.
- Experience working directly with Product, Engineering, Finance, People, Compliance, or other business teams.
- Ability to give clear, practical guidance without overcomplicating it, and to manage risk without defaulting to the most conservative answer.
- Good judgment and confidence to raise concerns directly when something does not look right.
- Comfort working in a growing company where priorities and legal questions change frequently.
- Willingness to stay close to detail and do the work yourself.
- JD and active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar.
Bonus Points:
- Experience in crypto, digital assets, fintech, financial services, or onchain financial products.
- Familiarity with legal and regulatory questions facing businesses operating across traditional and onchain finance.
- Experience advising on financial products or working with sophisticated institutional counterparties.
- Experience supporting financings, equity matters, corporate governance, or regulatory work.
- Experience using AI, automation, contract lifecycle tooling, or other legal technology.
