Assistant General Counsel

1 day, 15 hours ago
Full-time
Senior
Legal

Gauntlet

Gauntlet is a DeFi infrastructure and research company that provides quantitative risk management, simulation, and institutional yield products for crypto-native financial applications and protocols. Its public materials emphasize safer onchain yield, protocol optimization, and institutional capital deployment.

Software Development
51-200
Founded 2018

Description

  • Own commercial contracting end to end, including client, institutional, vendor, partner, protocol, and product agreements.
  • Draft, negotiate, and close agreements directly with counterparties and their counsel.
  • Advise Product and Engineering on legal and regulatory considerations for onchain product design and launches.
  • Support the broader legal docket with the General Counsel, including corporate governance, financings, equity, employment, IP, privacy, marketing, disputes, and regulatory matters.
  • Serve as the General Counsel’s second-in-command and provide coverage during their absence.
  • Partner with the Head of Compliance to align contractual commitments, policies, and controls.
  • Determine when matters should be handled in-house versus by outside counsel.
  • Build and improve legal intake, contract management, templates, playbooks, and operating processes.
  • Apply AI and automation to legal drafting, review, intake, and contract management.

Requirements

  • Strong experience drafting, negotiating, and closing a high volume of varied commercial agreements.
  • In-house legal experience, ideally on a small legal team with significant independent responsibility.
  • Broad legal experience across multiple practice areas and the ability to rapidly assess unfamiliar issues.
  • Experience creating legal templates, playbooks, processes, or tooling.
  • Experience partnering directly with business teams such as Product, Engineering, Finance, People, or Compliance.
  • Ability to provide practical, clear risk guidance without defaulting to overly conservative positions.
  • Strong judgment, comfort raising concerns directly, and willingness to make decisions in a changing environment.
  • Willingness to remain hands-on and own work from start to finish.
  • JD and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
  • Experience in crypto, digital assets, fintech, financial services, or onchain products; institutional counterparties; financings, governance, or regulatory work; or legal technology is preferred.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $200,000–$240,000, plus on-target earnings potential and company equity.
  • Remote-first work from anywhere in the contiguous United States or Canada.
  • 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees.
  • Unlimited vacation and 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
  • Fertility benefits and potential incentive compensation.
  • $1,000 work-from-home stipend plus monthly internet, phone, and cellular reimbursement.
  • Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country office visits.

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