Wealthsimple is hiring a Remote Senior Legal Counsel Technology and Intellectual Property
\nYour career is an investment that grows over time!\n\n\nWealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. Weโre the largest fintech company in Canada, with over 3 million users who trust us with more than $30 billion in assets.\n\n\nOur teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.\n\n\nThe Senior Legal Counsel, Technology & Intellectual Property (IP) will help build a best-in-class commercial program at Wealthsimple. This includes negotiating complex commercial agreements, support for vendor procurement, IP protection and licensing. We are looking for someone who is an excellent business partner and negotiator, who is pragmatic and creative, and who expects to leverage technology to enhance both the quality and efficiency of our commercial function. As a key partner to our Finance and R&D teams, you will actively identify opportunities to grow revenue, manage risk and protect and monetize our assets. \n\n\n\nRole responsibilities:\n* Negotiate and draft agreements that enable the development and execution of our product roadmap and growth initiatives, including strategic partnerships, licensing and outsourcing. \n* Provide legal advice and support on new products, in particular IP advice, including drafting policies and associated documentation.\n* Contribute actively to innovative ideas for growth and scalability, including new partnerships, new opportunities to monetize our significant R&D assets.\n* Partner with our procurement function on all types of vendor agreements.\n* Implement AI and other innovative technology to increase the quality and effectiveness of our large and growing commercial program. \n\n\n\nSkills you bring:\n* A law degree and minimum 5-8 yearsโ experience in technology commercial law, gained at a major Canadian law firm or an in-house corporate legal department.\n* Experience with drafting and negotiating complex legal agreements, in particular those common in the Canadian financial industry. \n* Expertise in SaaS and technology licensing agreements.\n* Familiarity with Canadian financial infrastructure and intermediaries, including regulated intermediaries, data providers, cloud infrastructure, and security providers.\n* Rigorous analytical skills and ability to proactively issue spot and problem solve. \n* Ability to effectively apply risk-based frameworks to ambiguous problems.\n* Skills to effectively communicate complex legal concepts to non-legal audiences.\n* Project management and organizational skills that can be used to balance competing priorities.\n\n\n\nNice to have:\n* Fluency in French an asset.\n* Expertise in crypto and blockchain.\n* Working knowledge of and interest in generative AI.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy Wealthsimple?\n๐ค Competitive Salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance\n๐ Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work\n๐ด 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days\n๐ Up to $1500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively \n๐ซ 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year \n๐ A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS) \n๐ Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year\n\n\nWeโre a remote-first team, with over 1000 employees coast to coast in North America. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions โ join us!\n\n\nRead our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.\n\n\nDEI Statement\nAt Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. \n\n\nAccessibility Statement\nWealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know, and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to SaaS, Crypto, Finance, Cloud, Senior and Legal jobs that are similar:\n\n
$60,000 — $120,000/year\n
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๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
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