Senior Paralegal supporting Best Buy Canada’s privacy requests, legal administration, and litigation files. Managing confidential records, legal operations, and dispute documentation for a major Canadian tech retailer.
About the role
- Senior Corporate Paralegal managing commercial contracts and legal operations for Fleetio’s fleet-management software platform. Supporting scalable workflows, corporate governance, compliance, and cross-functional business teams.
Responsibilities
- Independently review, draft, populate, redline, and negotiate commercial agreements, including MSAs, non-disclosure agreements, statements of work, amendments, order forms, vendor agreements, and other customer and supplier agreements.
- Manage contract matters from intake through execution with internal stakeholders, counterparties, and attorneys.
- Serve as a Legal Department resource for contracts, contracting processes, vendor and supplier matters, and routine legal matters.
- Identify contractual issues and deviations, resolve routine issues within guidelines, and escalate legal or business risks.
- Develop and maintain templates, playbooks, procedures, and other Legal Department resources.
- Develop and implement scalable contracting processes, approval workflows, and escalation procedures.
- Assess and improve Legal Department policies, procedures, technology, workflows, and program effectiveness.
- Manage contract lifecycle management and other Legal Department technology, including workflows, reporting, templates, and processes.
- Monitor contractual obligations, renewals, amendments, and significant contract requirements.
- Maintain corporate governance records, corporate filings, policies, and other corporate records.
- Support compliance initiatives and cross-functional Legal Department projects.
- Prepare correspondence and documentation for Legal, Sales, Finance, Procurement, and other business functions.
- Provide guidance, training, and support to Legal team members on contracting processes, legal technology, and departmental procedures.
- Develop training materials and train business stakeholders on contracting processes and Legal Department procedures.
- Assist with special projects and other legal matters as company needs evolve.
Requirements
- Minimum of 6 years of relevant paralegal experience, including substantial in-house experience supporting corporate and commercial legal matters.
- Significant hands-on experience reviewing, drafting, redlining, and negotiating commercial contracts with limited attorney supervision.
- Experience managing contract matters directly with business stakeholders and, where appropriate, external counterparties.
- Demonstrated ability to distinguish between matters that can be handled independently and issues requiring attorney escalation.
- Experience designing, implementing, or materially improving legal workflows, contracting processes, templates, playbooks, or other Legal Department procedures.
- Strong project management skills and demonstrated ability to independently manage multiple matters and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with attorneys, business stakeholders, and external parties.
- Strong attention to detail combined with the ability to understand broader business objectives and apply practical judgment.
- Demonstrated ability to handle highly confidential and sensitive information.
- Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
- Bachelor's or associate degree required.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Adobe Acrobat Pro, and electronic signature platforms such as DocuSign.
- Experience with contract lifecycle management, legal operations, project management, and business systems such as Ironclad, Jira, and Salesforce is preferred.
- Comfortable adopting new technology, including AI-enabled legal tools, and helping implement technology and process improvements.
Benefits
- Multiple health/dental coverage options (100% coverage for employee, 50% for family)
- Vision insurance
- Incentive stock options
- 401(k) match of 4%
- PTO - 4 weeks (increases at year two!)
- 12 company holidays + 2 floating holidays
- Parental leave - birthing parent (16 weeks paid) non-birthing (4 weeks paid)
- FSA & HSA options
- Short and long term disability (short term 100% paid)
- Community service funds
- Professional development funds
- Wellbeing fund - $150 quarterly
- Business expense stipend - $125 quarterly
- Mac laptop + new hire equipment stipend
- Fully stocked kitchen with tons of drinks & snacks (BHM only)
- Remote working friendly since 2012
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