Assistant General Counsel

2 months ago

Montreal, Quebec, Canada Lightspeed Full time
Job Title: Assistant General Counsel

Lightspeed is seeking an experienced Assistant General Counsel to join our commercial legal team. As a key member of our leadership team, you will play a critical role in shaping the company's legal strategy and providing expert guidance on complex commercial contracts.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Manage a portion of the commercial legal team and contribute to the development of the company's legal strategy
  • Support the ownership of the commercial contracting process, including contracting with customers, partners, and vendors
  • Implement systems and processes to enhance the scalability and efficiency of the company's commercial legal function
  • Provide support on complex, cross-functional projects and engage in ad hoc analysis for various stakeholder groups
  • Develop, draft, revise, administer, implement, and interpret compliance policies, procedures, and programs
  • Liaise with regulatory bodies and government authorities as required
Requirements:
  • 5+ years of experience in a law firm and/or as in-house counsel, preferably with a software-as-a-service business
  • Extensive experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating all types of contracts, especially technology contracts
  • Strong leadership skills and experience managing legal teams
  • Creative problem-solving and an innovative approach to in-house law department management
  • Broad commercial and corporate transactional experience gained in a fast-paced, preferably international, environment
  • Professional-level proficiency in English, including legal writing
  • Experience working in an international environment, across different jurisdictions and languages
About Us:

Lightspeed is a leading commerce platform that helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.

We are committed to building communities through commerce and strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs. We were founded in 2005 in Montreal's gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. Our ethos has been about inclusion from the very beginning.

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