Assistant General Counsel

About the Role

Assistant General Counsel New York City / San Francisco / Los Angeles / Remote Operations / Remote apply for this job 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. What you ll do; Own commercial contracting end to end: client and institutional agreements, partner and protocol arrangements, and other agreements across th...