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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.\nReporting 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.\nYou 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.\nThis 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.\nAbout Gauntlet\nGauntlet 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.\nOur team brings together traditional finance and crypto-native expertise to deliver durable, sophisticated products for institutional clients moving onchain.\nWhat you'll do;\nOwn commercial contracting end to end: client and institutional agreements, partner and protocol arrangements, and other agreements across the business.\n\nNegotiate directly with counterparties and their counsel, including sophisticated institutional clients working from their own paper.\n\nAdvise Product and Engineering as they design and ship onchain products, turning legal and regulatory constraints into practical guidance.\n\nCover the wider legal docket alongside the GC, including corporate and governance matters, equity and financing support, employment questions, IP, privacy, marketing review, disputes, and regulatory work.\n\nPartner with the Head of Compliance to make sure contractual commitments, policies, and controls stay aligned.\n\nHelp decide what should be handled in-house and where outside counsel adds value.\n\nImprove legal intake, contract management, templates, playbooks, and other processes that help a small legal team stay effective as the company grows.\n\nUse AI and automation across drafting, review, intake, and contract management where it makes the work faster or better.\n\nWhat you bring;\nStrong commercial contracting experience. Including drafting, negotiating, and closing a high volume of varied agreements.\n\nTime in-house, ideally at a company with a small legal team where you were expected to work independently\n\nBreadth across several legal areas rather than a single specialty, and the ability to get up to speed quickly on unfamiliar issues.\n\nExperience building templates, playbooks, processes, or tooling that make routine legal work easier to handle.\n\nExperience working directly with Product, Engineering, Finance, People, Compliance, or other business teams.\n\nThe ability to give clear, practical guidance without overcomplicating it, and to manage risk without defaulting to the most conservative answer.\n\nGood judgement and the confidence to raise concerns directly when something does not look right.\n\nComfort working in a growing company where priorities and legal questions will keep changing.\n\nA willingness to stay close to the detail and do the work yourself.\n\nJD and active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar.\n\nBonus points\nExperience in crypto, digital assets, fintech, financial services, or onchain financial products.\n\nFamiliarity with the legal and regulatory questions facing businesses operating across traditional and onchain finance.\n\nExperience advising on financial products or working with sophisticated institutional counterparties.\n\nExperience supporting financings, equity matters, corporate governance, or regulatory work.\n\nExperience using AI, automation, contract lifecycle tooling, or other legal technology to make a legal team more effective.\n\nWho will do well here\nYou 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.\nYou 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.\"\nCommercial 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.\nGauntlet communicates directly. 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