Legal Counsel, Commercial (AI)

Location: Remote within the United States and Canada; employees must work from their home country and be ready to travel for in-person engagement, including offsites, team meetings, and customer or industry events.

Salary: USA-based roles: $155,000–$217,000 USD annual base salary. Canada-based roles: $125,000–$175,000 CAD annual base salary.

Company

hirify.global builds enterprise password management and Unified Access Management products that help businesses securely adopt SaaS and AI tools.

What you will do

• Partner with GTM teams to draft, review, negotiate, and close customer agreements, including MSAs, Order Forms, DPAs, NDAs, and SOWs.
• Review and negotiate procurement agreements covering software, professional services, sponsorships, physical goods, hospitality, and events.
• Negotiate strategic partnership, reseller, and distributor agreements supporting expansion into new markets.
• Provide product counseling, including reviewing new products and features and drafting and maintaining product terms and conditions.
• Advise on privacy, data protection, and AI-related legal issues across customer, vendor, and product matters.
• Build playbooks, templates, guidance, and AI-enabled workflows while handling bespoke commercial matters.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor or equivalent law degree and membership in good standing with a Canadian provincial or US state bar.
• 3–5 years of practice as a commercial transactional lawyer at an established law firm with a strong commercial or technology practice, or on an in-house legal team at a mid-size or larger technology company.
• Experience supporting sales teams by drafting and negotiating customer agreements, including MSAs, Order Forms, DPAs, NDAs, and Statements of Work.
• Experience reviewing and negotiating procurement agreements across software, professional services, sponsorships, physical goods, and hospitality.
• Working knowledge of privacy laws, including GDPR, and their application to customer and vendor agreements, especially DPAs.
• Strong interest in AI, including AI contract terms and emerging AI regulation, plus a high level of comfort using AI tools in day-to-day legal work.
• Track record of closing deals on tight timelines, including end-of-quarter pressure, while controlling risk.
• Ability to explain complex legal issues in clear, plain-language advice and provide workable options and fallback positions.
• Sales-focused mindset, strong negotiation and drafting skills, and close attention to detail.

Nice to have

• Experience with contract lifecycle management and procurement tools, especially Ironclad and Zip.
• Deeper privacy experience with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA, or other privacy laws, or a privacy certification such as CIPP/E, CIPP/US, or CIPP/C.
• Experience negotiating partnership, reseller, and distributor agreements.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work environment with required readiness for role-related travel and in-person engagement.
• Collaborative culture focused on transparent communication, feedback, simplicity, honesty, and putting people first.
• Health, dental, and retirement benefits, including 401(k) in the US and RRSP in Canada.
• Generous paid time off, parental leave top-up programs, and paid volunteer days.
• RSU program for most employees, peer-to-peer recognition, and a free hirify.global account.
• AI tools are encouraged for meaningful work and may be used responsibly during the application process, but not during live interviews.

Hiring process

• Live interviews assess communication, problem-solving, and collaboration without AI tools.
• Successful applicants complete a background check that may include employment, reference, education, criminal, social media, and credit checks as permitted by local law.