Explore Gauntlet DEX for yield strategies, staking rewards, and liquidity pools. Join Gauntlet Network for DeFi trading, futures, and referral benefits!
About 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 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
More about this 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.
Gauntlet builds the financial systems...
Browse similar: Startup jobs · Remote jobs · San Francisco Bay Area