Senior Legal Counsel

🕒 July 8

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $150k - $220k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

👻 Ghost score 6%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Shakepay

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🛡️ Insurance

💰 Series A on 2022-01

Consulting • Food & Beverage • Insurance

Shakepay is a Canadian company that provides an easy and quick platform for buying, selling, and earning bitcoin and ethereum. It offers a user-friendly app where Canadians can set up accounts, perform transactions, and manage digital currencies like bitcoin and ethereum in minutes. Shakepay is noted for its fast service, commission-free transactions, and cashback rewards, making it an attractive option for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. The company ensures the security of digital assets by keeping them in secure offline storage backed by insurance. Shakepay operates under regulatory oversight as a Money Service Business licensed by FINTRAC and is registered in all Canadian provinces and territories as a Restricted Dealer.

📋 Description

• Partner with Product, Compliance and business teams to help design and launch new products, translating complex legal and regulatory requirements into practical solutions. • Advise on a broad range of legal and regulatory matters across securities, AML/ATF, payments, consumer protection and other areas impacting Shakepay's business. • Lead regulatory initiatives, including supporting examinations, audits, licensing work, policy development and engagement with regulators. • Provide practical, business-oriented advice to leaders across the company, helping teams navigate ambiguity and make informed decisions while balancing legal, regulatory and operational considerations. • Identify opportunities to leverage AI, automation and scalable processes to improve how legal work gets done and enable the business to move faster. • Support the team on a variety of other legal matters as needed, including commercial agreements, corporate governance, employment and strategic projects.

🎯 Requirements

• Canadian-qualified lawyer with 5+ years of experience, ideally in fintech, payments, financial services, crypto, or a fast-moving technology company. • Able to operate independently in a lean team, make decisions with incomplete information, and move work forward without heavy oversight. • Business-oriented legal judgment: you start from the product or business outcome, then help the team understand risk, options, and a recommended path. • Comfortable advising product and operational teams directly, including on ambiguous questions where there may not be a perfect answer. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn complex legal issues into clear, practical guidance for non-legal stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• 🤝 Be an owner: Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation. • 🥅 Reach your goals: Develop with continuous feedback and quarterly performance and compensation review. • 🦷 Health & wellness: Access to health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts. • 🌎 Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto. • 🆙 Level Up: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth. • 🌴 Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus. • 🐣 Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks. • 🙌 Have fun together: quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other.