Junior Claims Legal Counsel defending auto, bodily injury, property, and commercial insurance claims for Desjardins. Managing litigation files from start to finish across Ontario.
About the role
- Legal Counsel owning contracts, privacy, security, and AI governance for Quandri’s AI insurance platform. Building the company’s first in-house legal function in Vancouver.
Responsibilities
- Own the deal desk and run customer contracting for MSAs, order forms, change orders, DPAs, and NDAs
- Take first and final passes on redlines and negotiate directly with counterparty counsel and procurement
- Build contracting templates, negotiation playbooks, fallback positions, and approval thresholds
- Own contractual aspects of security and privacy, including data processing, data residency, sub-processor commitments, security exhibits, SLAs, and customer security/privacy commitments
- Support the Operations team with SOC 2 policies and customer-facing security questionnaires and audits
- Serve as point of contact for external and specialist counsel, control legal spend, and bring work in-house as playbooks mature
- Handle special projects involving corporate and financing matters, employment and equity questions, partnership structures, insurance regulatory questions, and AI governance
- Review and negotiate vendor, integration, and data licensing agreements, including AI usage, data rights, and model training terms
- Partner with Operations on authority matrices and risk thresholds for agreement routing
- Report to and partner closely with the Head of Finance & Operations
- Collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, Operations, and the executive team
Requirements
- A JD
- Bar admission; must be called to the bar in a Canadian or US jurisdiction
- Roughly 2 to 5 years of practice
- Hands-on commercial contracting experience, including drafting and negotiating commercial agreements
- Working knowledge of data protection and security terms, including DPAs, sub-processor terms, data residency, and security exhibits
- Comfort getting up to speed on privacy regimes across Canada and the US
- Commercial judgment and ability to explain legal issues to non-lawyers in plain English
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, unstructured environments
- Active AI user with a point of view on effective AI use
- Strong communication across levels, including with account executives, executives, and opposing counsel
- High-agency, builder's instinct
- Ability to partner with Sales, Product, Engineering, Operations, executives, and external counsel
Benefits
- Employee stock options, granted based off experience level upon hire and subject to a standard vesting schedule
- Comprehensive health benefits, including $500 Lifestyle Spending Account
- Four weeks of paid vacation per year
- Work anywhere in the world for 60 calendar days of the year
- Parental leave top-ups: 6 months for birthing parents, 8 weeks for non-birthing parents (up to $100,000 annual salary)
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