Capital Market Associate

What you'll do:

• Originate institutional borrow demand across collateralized lending, trading and hedging strategies, structured credit, and liquidity products — from prime brokerages, trading firms, and asset-backed lending partners.
• Build the borrower pipeline across three segments: (1) unique-market-access counterparties (e.g. RWAs); (2) committed-supply-at-scale borrowers (market makers, OTC desks, trading desks); (3) KYC-gated counterparties (regulated borrowers who cannot legally use open pools).
• Structure and close term sheets — negotiate rate, term, size, and collateral; coordinate KYC, gating, and onboarding through to close.

What success looks like:

• First 30 days: Ramp on Gauntlet's infrastructure and partnerships across lending markets, vaults and structured products, meet key internal stakeholders and counterparties, and develop a clear view of the current pipeline.
• First 3–6 months: Operating your own pipeline across the three borrower segments, with live term-sheet negotiations and your first closed institutional credit relationship at Gauntlet.
• In 1 year: Originated and closed multiple institutional credit relationships, contributing meaningful incremental book size, and recognized as a Gauntlet voice on institutional borrow origination.

What you bring:

• 2–6 years in Investment Banking, Leveraged Finance, or Capital Markets at a leading sell-side institution, with direct experience in financing transactions, debt raises, or structured credit.
• Credit / leveraged-finance grounding: comfort with collateralization, liquidity, leverage, covenants, counterparty risk, and funding costs.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication and experience managing institutional client relationships.