[Hiring] Assistant General Counsel @Gauntlet

Role Description

Gauntlet is hiring its first Assistant General Counsel. This role adds a second experienced lawyer to the team, someone who can take meaningful work off the GC's desk, own it end to end, and help shape how the legal function develops as the company grows.

Reporting to the General Counsel, you will own a large part of the commercial legal work:

• Client agreements
• Vendor and partner contracts
• Product terms

You will draft and negotiate them, and build the templates, playbooks, and processes that make the routine work easier to handle.

You will also be the GC's second-in-command, covering when they are out and stepping into whatever is most important that week. You will be another senior legal voice the business can rely on.

This is a hands-on senior role with meaningful ownership, direct access to company leadership, and the chance to help build a legal function that fits an onchain financial business.

Qualifications

• 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 the 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.
• The ability to give clear, practical guidance without overcomplicating it, and to manage risk without defaulting to the most conservative answer.
• Good judgement and the confidence to raise concerns directly when something does not look right.
• Comfort working in a growing company where priorities and legal questions will keep changing.
• A willingness to stay close to the detail and do the work yourself.
• JD and active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar.

Requirements

• Experience in crypto, digital assets, fintech, financial services, or onchain financial products.
• Familiarity with the 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 to make a legal team more effective.

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