Associate General Counsel

The role

You will own the commercial contracts function and build processes to scale the legal function. You will advise various business verticals on legal risk and business opportunity.

What you will do

• Draft, negotiate, and close enterprise SaaS/AI agreements
• Build and maintain contract templates and a negotiation playbook
• Triage inbound redlines and establish contract review SLAs
• Own day-to-day privacy compliance and data governance strategy
• Manage vendor and partner agreements
• Serve as the embedded legal partner for Sales & Marketing, Product, Engineering and Finance
• Identify legal risks in the product development cycle
• Build and refine the legal ops infrastructure
• Identify when to use outside counsel and manage those relationships

Required qualifications

• JD from an accredited law school
• Active state bar membership in good standing
• 4-8 years of experience
• At least 2-3 years at an Am Law 100 law firm in the transactional/commercial practice area
• Deep expertise in commercial contract drafting and negotiation
• Ability to work independently, prioritize competing demands, and make judgment calls without hand-holding
• Clear, direct communicator who writes and speaks in plain language

Nice to have

• In-house experience at a high-growth tech company (Series A-C)
• Familiarity with SaaS/AI business models, cloud infrastructure agreements, and API/platform contracts
• Experience with federal, state and international data privacy frameworks and standard DPA negotiations
• Experience building in-house data privacy compliance frameworks
• Exposure to equity compensation, venture financing documentation, or M&A

About the company

Canals builds software for wholesale distributors, helping them operate more efficiently through automation and AI. The company is a profitable, rapidly growing team of roughly 140 people distributed across North and South America.