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📍 Toronto, Canada
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend +37.5%
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Senior Counsel, Services - Privacy, AI & Data Responsibility Overview Mastercard is seeking a Senior Counsel to serve as a dedicated Canadian privacy and data responsibility counsel supporting Mastercard’s products, services, and go-to-market activities in Canada. This role will provide practical, business-oriented legal advice on Canadian privacy, AI, data protection, consumer protection, and related regulatory requirements, with a primary focus on enabling Canadian product launches and supporting remediation of existing products, services, processes, and controls to meet Canadian legal and regulatory expectations. Role The Senior Counsel will work closely with product, regional, regulatory, commercial, and global privacy stakeholders to help Mastercard bring innovative products and services to the Canadian market in a responsible, compliant, and scalable way. The role will support the identification, prioritization, and implementation of compliance controls for Canadian requirements. You will: Serve as the Canadian Data Protection Officer for our Services business Act as the lead legal advisor on Canadian privacy, AI, data protection, consumer protection, and related regulatory matters. Provide practical legal guidance to product, business, and legal teams on Ca

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📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -91.5%

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! About the Role Cohere is seeking an experienced Tax Counsel to lead our global tax planning function. This critical position will focus on strategic tax planning across global M&A transactions, Canadian income tax compliance and planning, global tax planning, and transfer pricing optimization. You'll play a key role in shaping Cohere's tax strategy while working closely with leadership, Finance, Legal, and external advisors. Key Responsibilities Lead tax due diligence and preliminary planning for all M&A transactions, coordinating with internal teams and external advisors to support business objectives Design and implement global tax planning structures that optimize Canadian and foreign tax positions, transfer pricing outcomes, and US GAAP compliance Oversee domestic Canadian income tax planning, compliance, and routine filings, establishing efficient processes with service provider coordination Provide expert tax guidance to Legal and business teams on commercial arrangements and strategic initiatives, translating complex tax implications into actionable insights Monitor global tax developments and assess their impact

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📍 Toronto, Canada
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -90.9%

From C$87.7K/yr

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We’re looking for an Associate Legal Counsel, Commercial and Privacy to contribute in developing a world class privacy program at Hootsuite and supporting on sales and other commercial matters. As part of our Privacy, Compliance & Customer Assurance team, you'll be helping translating complex global privacy laws into practical advice for business stakeholders and helping the Commercial Legal team drive deals across the line. This is a remote-first role and is open to applicants located in provinces and states where we are set up to hire. In this role, you will report to the Senior Legal Counsel, Privacy, AI & Compliance. Please include a cover letter when applying. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Provide frontline privacy support to business stakeholders throughout the organization (e.g., product development, sales, marketing, people, etc.) Draft privacy and other legal policies, notices and guidance Support our Customer Assurance function (which provides security and privacy sales support) and efficiently respond to customer data protection and privacy questions Draft, review, and negotiate commercial and data protection agreements, including, data processing agreements, NDAs, SaaS agreements, and vendor agreements Collaborate with key stakeholders to implement and maintain key privacy initiatives (e.g., improvements to our data retention / deletion policies, PIAs, data inventories, vendor controls, data subject requests) Collaborate with key business stakeholders to identify privacy risks and implement business minded solutions Support the implementation and maintenance of Privacy and Customer Assurance operations tools and processes in collaboration with the team and other stakeholders. Provide business oriented and practical legal guidance and support on a wide range of topics, including commercial contracts (with a focus on SaaS contracts), data protection, and procurement. Build and maintain positive relationships with

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -100%

C$189K – C$244K/yr

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Who We Are At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people. We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you. We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team. Our Values If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in. Who You Are Do you enjoy turning complex international employment issues into clear, practical guidance that helps teams move with confidence? Are you energized by helping a global EOR business handle sensitive employment lifecycle matters with sound judgment, consistency, and care? You are an experienced employment lawyer who understands that strong EOR legal support requires both legal judgment and operational follow-through. You know how to evaluate lifecycle risk, partner with local experts, align stakeholders, and help teams reach practical outcomes in complex and time-sensitive employment matters. You bring clear communication, business-oriented judgment, and a steady approach to sensitive employee lifecycle issues. As part of the International Legal team, the Senior Lifecycle Counsel, International will provide legal support for complex employment lifecycle execution across Justworks’ EOR offering, with particular focus on sensitive, complex, or escalated matters such as terminations, performance management, leave, and employee relations. You will serve as the legal point of contact for selected lifecycle matters that require Legal in

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -76.2%
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Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. We are looking for an experienced and innovative attorney to join our regulatory and product counsel team as Assistant General Counsel, reporting to the Senior Director and Deputy General Counsel, Crypto at Robinhood. In this role, you’ll partner directly with our product and compliance teams on product launches and provide legal counsel to them on an ongoing basis. The successful candidate will be an engaged and resourceful self-starter, comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, and excellent at building strong relationships. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing company and add to our mission to democratize finance for all. This role is based in our Toronto office with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams. What you’ll do Provide end-to-end counseling on a range of retail cryptocurrency products and services, collaborating with colleagues and cross-functional stakeholders across the company Respon

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -72.4%

C$71.2K – C$89K/yr

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. We are looking for a detail-driven Legal Billing Specialist to join our growing Legal Operations Team. In this role, you will own the day-to-day of outside counsel and vendor billing across our matter management and eBilling platforms—reviewing invoices, enforcing our Outside Counsel Guidelines and negotiated fee arrangements, and keeping our legal spend accurate, compliant, and on time. The ideal candidate is tech-savvy, numbers-oriented, and thrives under recurring billing deadlines, bringing a collaborative and transparent approach to partnering with attorneys, law firms, and Finance. This is a billing-focused role that also supports the broader Legal Operations function. Responsibilities: Prepare, review, and process outside counsel and vendor invoices; audit prebills and invoices, and flag rate errors, block-billing, math discrepancies, and billing-guideline violations before approval. Manage the day-to-day operation of the eBilling and matter management platform (Onit), including invoice intake, LEDES processing, rejections and appeals, accruals, and international / AP invoice processing. Enforce compliance with Lyft’s Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCG) and negotiated fee and alternative fee arrangements (AFAs); process write-offs, write-downs, and adjustments with clear documentation and audit trail. Manage timekeeper and billing-rate submissions and approvals; maintain accurate rate cards, matter budgets, and phase/task coding across the portfolio. Serve as the primary point of contact for billing inquiries and disputes; resolve discrepancies promptly by partnering with attorneys, law firms, and support staff. Partner closely with the Legal Operations eBilling Lead and with Finance / Accounts Payable on accruals, month- and quarter-end close, reconciliation, and payment status. Onboard outside

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