Senior Employment Counsel providing legal guidance on employment law. Building the legal function for a rapidly scaling company focused on family caregiving.
About the role
- Legal Counsel at Gorgias overseeing commercial agreements and providing legal guidance through contract negotiations. Supports growth and efficiency in legal operations with AI integration.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end negotiation of commercial agreements: SaaS subscription agreements, MSAs, order forms, DPAs.
- Be the primary legal point of contact for the sales team — coaching reps on deal risks, unblocking negotiations, and setting clear fallback positions
- Build, maintain, and continuously improve our contract playbook and standard template suite
- Manage and improve AI-assisted contract workflows (Claude, ChatGpt)
- Partner with Finance and RevOps on deal structuring, billing terms, and revenue recognition edge cases
- Handle vendor and inbound technology agreements, including SaaS and data processor relationships
- Identify patterns across the deal portfolio and translate them into policy, training, or product input
- Support general commercial legal work as the team scales
Requirements
- 3-4 years of commercial legal experience, in-house at a SaaS or tech company, or in tech-focused private practice
- Startup or scale-up experience: you've built or improved a process, not just executed within one
- Exposure to US market commercial deals — you understand how US enterprise procurement works
- Comfortable with ambiguity; you close deals, you don't just flag risk
- Strong written communication — your redlines are tight, your emails move things forward
- Genuine curiosity about AI tools and a willingness to work *with* AI.
- Licensed in both Canada and a US state (dual bar is a strong plus) (Nice to have)
- Experience with AI-assisted contract review tools (Nice to have)
Benefits
- 5-week vacation (We follow each country's appropriate PTO Laws)
- Paid sick leave
- Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
- MacBook Pro
- Private health insurance and retirement pension (RRSP with Gorgias matching up to 4%)
- For a smooth onboarding, we invite you to our Toronto office for one week (flights and accommodation handled by Gorgias)
- Get up to $900 CAD to set up your workstation at home
- Get up to $2,600 CAD of learning material per year (books, courses, training, and individual coaching)
- Every quarter, we organize a company-wide summit to discuss where we're going and strengthen social bonds. Once per year we organize offsite team retreats and company retreats!
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