Associate General Counsel

🔥 15 hours ago

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Canals

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise • Distribution

Canals is an AI-driven tool designed to enhance efficiency in distribution and order processing for sales, accounting, and procurement teams. It automates tasks like sales order entry and invoice processing, transforming customer emails into actionable quotes and orders without the need for templates. Canals is built specifically for various distribution verticals including electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and industrial sectors, helping teams save time and increase accuracy in their workflows. As users engage with the platform, the AI continues to improve its performance and adapt to specific business needs, ensuring better service for customers and vendors alike.

📋 Description

• Own the commercial contracts function end-to-end • Draft, negotiate, and close enterprise SaaS/AI agreements, including DPAs and other addenda and schedules • Build and maintain contract templates and a negotiation playbook • Empower the sales team to move deals faster • Triage inbound redlines efficiently and establish contract review SLAs • Own day-to-day privacy compliance and data governance strategy • Manage vendor and partner agreements, including software licenses and professional services contracts • Serve as embedded legal partner for Sales & Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Finance • Identify legal risks early in product development and advise on mitigation • Build and refine legal operations infrastructure, including contract management tooling and intake processes • Identify when to use outside counsel and manage those relationships • Handle a broad range of commercial, corporate, employment, compliance, and strategic legal matters • Advise business verticals by translating legal risk and business opportunity into plain language • Serve as the General Counsel's principal legal partner

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • Demonstrated ability to work independently, prioritize competing demands, and make judgment calls without hand-holding • Clear, direct communication skills in plain language • Preferred: in-house experience at a high-growth tech company (Series A–C) • Preferred: familiarity with SaaS/AI business models, cloud infrastructure agreements, and API/platform contracts • Preferred: experience with federal, state, and international data privacy frameworks and standard DPA negotiations • Preferred: experience building in-house data privacy compliance frameworks • Preferred: exposure to equity compensation, venture financing documentation, or M&A

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first, flexible, and distributed across North and South America • Opportunities for meaningful impact on the company's trajectory • Investment in hiring and professional development • Environment designed for talented individuals to do the best work of their careers • Collaboration with ambitious, thoughtful teammates • Ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement culture

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