Assistant General Counsel

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $200k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Gauntlet

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

₿ Crypto

Consulting • Logistics • Crypto

Gauntlet is a company that specializes in economic modeling for the cryptocurrency space, primarily focusing on decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. It provides full-service economic risk management, infrastructure advisory, and applied research to optimize economic incentives and drive sustainable growth for crypto protocols, chains, and onchain treasuries. Gauntlet leverages extensive data modeling and quantitative optimization techniques to protect over $35 billion in assets and mitigate risks associated with DeFi. The company is committed to advancing its methodologies and providing robust experience and service to the DeFi community.

📋 Description

• Own commercial contracting end to end, including client and institutional agreements, partner and protocol arrangements, and other business agreements • Negotiate directly with counterparties and their counsel • Advise Product and Engineering on onchain product development and legal or regulatory constraints • Cover corporate, governance, equity and financing, employment, IP, privacy, marketing, disputes, and regulatory matters alongside the General Counsel • Partner with the Head of Compliance to align contractual commitments, policies, and controls • Determine what should be handled in-house and where outside counsel adds value • Improve legal intake, contract management, templates, playbooks, and team processes • Use AI and automation across drafting, review, intake, and contract management • Serve as the General Counsel's second-in-command and cover when they are unavailable • Report to the General Counsel and work closely with company leadership

🎯 Requirements

• 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 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 • Ability to give clear, practical guidance and manage risk without defaulting to the most conservative answer • Good judgement and confidence to raise concerns directly • Comfort working in a growing company where priorities and legal questions change • Willingness to stay close to the detail and do the work yourself • JD • Active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar • Bonus: experience in crypto, digital assets, fintech, financial services, or onchain financial products • Bonus: familiarity with legal and regulatory questions facing traditional and onchain finance • Bonus: experience advising on financial products or working with sophisticated institutional counterparties • Bonus: experience supporting financings, equity matters, corporate governance, or regulatory work • Bonus: experience using AI, automation, contract lifecycle tooling, or other legal technology

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote first — work from anywhere in the United States • Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk • 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees • $1,000 WFH stipend • Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data • Unlimited vacation • 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks • Fertility benefits • Opportunity for incentive compensation • Equity in the company