Canadian immigration lawyer leading CanadaVisa’s Express Entry practice and five-person team. Driving operational excellence, AI adoption, client growth, and potential General Manager responsibility.
Responsibilities
Lead the Express Entry practice and a team of approximately five case managers
Own the department's operational performance, including response times, pipeline velocity, file throughput, capacity, quality, and client satisfaction
Build a high-performing team through expectation-setting, coaching, performance management, talent development, recruitment, onboarding, and training
Create operational resilience through clear ownership, coverage, escalation paths, and redundancy
Provide senior legal oversight, guidance on complex matters, and quality-control processes
Identify and execute opportunities to increase capacity, improve conversion and client experience, expand services, and grow the practice
Partner with product and engineering to identify bottlenecks, automate repetitive work, and develop scalable legal workflows and technology
Use AI for research, preparation, quality control, training, client communication, and workflow management while maintaining legal and professional standards
Codify expertise into systems, playbooks, training, and technology
Develop toward broader P&L and General Manager responsibility by learning revenue, staffing, capacity, margins, investment decisions, and growth
Requirements
Must be a licensed Canadian lawyer
Member in good standing of a Canadian law society
Eligible to practise in Canada
Experience managing, mentoring, or supervising people
Comfortable setting expectations, giving direct feedback, making difficult decisions, and handling escalations
Operational mindset with comfort using metrics, dashboards, targets, capacity planning, and accountability
Experience using AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT
Strong systems-thinking and workflow/process design abilities
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Immigration experience, particularly experience with permanent residence matters, is strongly preferred
Ability to communicate effectively with clients, lawyers, legal professionals, executives, and technical teams
Benefits
Competitive compensation + performance bonus
Group benefits — extended health, telehealth, dental, vision
Unlimited paid time off
Toronto hybrid work arrangement preferred
Path toward General Manager responsibility, including potential ownership of the department's financial and operational performance
Technology-enabled training systems to accelerate immigration expertise
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