Top Legal Counsel Jobs in Ottawa

Provides practical legal advice on commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, data privacy, employment matters, and vendor and sales agreements. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, technology, consulting, and service contracts; supports procurement, sales, and HR teams; monitors global legal developments; and advises on compliance. Leads adoption of automation, AI, and legal technology to improve legal operations and supports scalable processes for a fully remote technology company.

Provides legal advice and transaction support for project, infrastructure, acquisition, and structured finance. Drafts and negotiates complex financing and security documents, advises on risk allocation and lender protections, manages due diligence, supervises external counsel, and supports syndicated transactions. The role also develops legal precedents, processes, training, and guidance while helping establish FCC’s Project Finance business line.

Provide hands-on corporate and commercial legal support to super{set} and its portfolio companies. Responsibilities include company formation, governance, contracts, financings, equity administration, privacy and AI-related matters, compliance coordination, and legal operations. The role independently manages routine-to-moderate matters, coordinates with outside counsel, maintains records, and improves templates, workflows, and playbooks while escalating complex issues appropriately.

Own and negotiate commercial agreements, advise Sales and business teams on deal structure and risk, and develop scalable contracting processes. Partner with Security, Privacy, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations on technology transactions, data protection, AI, pricing, and revenue matters. Support international transactions, improve negotiation efficiency through metrics and processes, coordinate outside counsel, and contribute to the growth of Tailscale’s commercial legal function.

Provide hands-on legal and regulatory advice across crypto, payments, securities and AML; partner with product, compliance and leadership to launch products, lead regulatory initiatives, draft commercial agreements, and improve legal processes using AI and automation.

Corporate Counsel will advise Prosper’s Capital Markets team on structured finance, secured lending, loan sales, servicing, credit facilities, securitizations, debt sales, and bank-partner agreements. Responsibilities include negotiating transaction and commercial documents, managing investor contract obligations, coordinating closings, supporting collections and recoveries, and advising on operational, marketing, and strategic matters. The role requires strong transactional judgment, collaboration, organization, and the ability to manage complex matters independently.

Provide day-to-day corporate and commercial legal support, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts. Manage cross-border matters involving the US, UK, and EU; independently handle routine legal issues; build legal processes; and coordinate external counsel for complex or jurisdiction-specific matters. Provide practical, commercially minded advice to the business.

Provide independent insurance defence litigation across property, casualty and accident benefits files. Draft pleadings, affidavits, opinions and hearing materials; conduct discoveries, mediations, LAT hearings, trials and other dispute resolution processes. Collaborate with internal teams, coach colleagues, report on claims with indemnity/expense control focus, and support senior counsel as needed.

As the first in-house legal counsel, you will manage legal frameworks, corporate governance, compliance, contract management, regulatory matters, and risk mitigation while advising the executive team.

Serve as legal domain expert bridging clients and internal engineering to define negotiation playbooks, translate legal rules into prompts/specs, validate AI outputs, lead UAT, and guide integration of GenAI and CLM contract tools for complex commercial negotiation workflows.

Act as a bilingual legal-technology expert architecting AI-powered contract solutions and drafting CLM redlining rules (80%). Serve as legal tech SME in client meetings, test and improve AI legal tools, train global teams, and handle in-house client/supplier contracts, compliance, and corporate governance (20%).

Provide legal support for portfolio acquisitions: due diligence, drafting and negotiating purchase agreements and ancillary documents, assess transaction risks, manage legal intake, and advise on compliance.

Legal Counsel will develop compliance frameworks, offer legal advice, and manage contracts to ensure regulatory adherence and improve departmental efficiencies.

The Legal Counsel will draft, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements while providing legal support across various teams. Responsibilities include monitoring litigation and adhering to payment services regulations.

Provide in-house product and IP legal counsel across patent prosecution, IP portfolio management, brand protection, open-source licensing, and product launch readiness. Support invention harvesting, draft and review IP-related commercial contract clauses, assist with AI governance and trade compliance, conduct legal research and diligence, and collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, privacy, and commercial teams.