Assistant General Counsel Commercial

Gauntlet; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 180 000 - 240 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Gauntlet is seeking a senior in-house lawyer to join the small legal team in San Francisco. You will own commercial contracting end to end and act as a practical business partner across Product, Engineering, and leadership.

You will draft, negotiate, and implement templates, playbooks, and processes to scale a high-volume onchain financial business, balancing risk with speed and business needs.

Qualificações

• Senior hands-on role owning commercial contracting end-to-end.
• Ability to build templates, playbooks, and processes.
• Experience turning legal and regulatory constraints into practical guidance.

Responsabilidades

• Advise Product and Engineering on onchain product design and compliance.
• Handle corporate governance, equity & financing support, employment, IP, privacy, disputes, and regulatory work.
• Manage contracts with clients, vendors, partners, and protocols.
• Improve contract management, templates, playbooks, and processes.
• Support decisions on in-house vs outside counsel.
• Leverage AI/automation in drafting and review.

Conhecimentos

Commercial contracting

In-house experience

Contract negotiation

Templates & playbooks

Ferramentas

Contract management systems

Descrição da oferta de emprego

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. 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. 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. 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. Own commercial contracting end to end: client and institutional agreements, partner and protocol arrangements, and other agreements across the business.

• Advise Product and Engineering as they design and ship onchain products, turning legal and regulatory constraints into practical guidance.
• Cover 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.
• Partner with the Head of Compliance to make sure contractual commitments, policies, and controls stay aligned.
• Help decide what should be handled in-house and where outside counsel adds value.
• Improve legal intake, contract management, templates, playbooks, and other processes that help a small legal team stay effective as the company grows.
• Use AI and automation across drafting, review, intake, and contract management where it makes the work faster or better. 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.
• The ability to give clear, practical guidance without overcomplicating it, and to manage risk without defaulting to the most conservative answer.
• Comfort working in a growing company where priorities and legal questions will keep changing. -