Assistant General Counsel

The role

Gauntlet is hiring its first Assistant General Counsel. Today, legal work runs through the General Counsel and a small group of outside firms. 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. That means covering when they are out, stepping into whatever is most important that week, and being another senior legal voice the business can rely on. You will not have a large team beneath you. You will have outside counsel where it makes sense, and plenty of scope to improve how the function works.

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.

About Gauntlet

Gauntlet builds the financial systems of the future. While much of onchain finance is focused on point solutions, we operate across the entire stack to offer best-in-class vault products. Today, we serve over $1.6B in client TVL across some of the largest fintechs/neobanks, protocols, exchanges, and capital allocators in crypto, and, increasingly, traditional asset management.

Our team brings together traditional finance and crypto-native expertise to deliver durable, sophisticated products for institutional clients moving onchain.

You will probably enjoy this role if you like owning work from start to finish, are comfortable making decisions, and do not need a large legal team around you to get things done.

You should take a practical approach to risk. We are not looking for someone who defaults to the most conservative answer, but you do need the judgement to know when the answer should be "no."

Commercial contracts will be a big part of the role, but this is not a narrow commercial counsel position. The work will move around. One week may be dominated by an institutional agreement; the next may involve a product launch, employment issue, financing matter, or regulatory question.

Gauntlet communicates directly. We are looking for someone who can explain legal issues plainly, build trust across the company, and become someone teams involve early rather than only when something needs signing or a problem has already surfaced.

Why join now

This is a chance to join Gauntlet as the second senior lawyer and have a real say in how the legal function develops.

You will work closely with the General Counsel and company leadership, take ownership of meaningful work from the start, and help decide what Legal should look like as the business grows.

There is still plenty to build - processes, tooling, templates, ways of working, and decisions about where Legal should spend its time. You will have a meaningful role in shaping all of it.

Please note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.

The national pay range for this role is $200,000 - $240,000 base plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.  

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