gauntlet - Assistant General Counsel

• 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. • 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. • ## Who will do well here • 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.