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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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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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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -72.4%
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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. Lyft is seeking a Staff Design Program Manager for the Global Growth organization. Design Foundations is the infrastructure layer of Lyft's design organization — the systems, standards, and processes that every product team depends on. This role sits at the center of that work, owning program management across Product Design, UXR, Content Design, and AI tooling. Design Program Managers are strategic partners with design leads, leading and driving the design work forward everyday. You will work across teams to shepherd and manage the delivery of design and customer experiences to completion. You’re a strong strategic thinker, you can execute the small tasks well, and you take a creative approach to operational challenges. You’re savvy at connecting the dots, and being a trusted partner to cross functional peers at Lyft. You’ll be a leader within the design organization and an advocate for the Design+ team and the design process. Responsibilities: Own roadmap and execution for projects end-to-end Drive program management for the Global Growth design team Shape and document workflows and processes that make the team faster and more effective Partner with design, engineering, marketing, legal, and product to scope work, set timelines, and manage delivery Build and maintain visibility into project health, team utilization, and priorities for design leadership Lead planning and prioritization across cross-functional teams — balancing competing inputs without losing sight of the goal Facilitate design reviews, retros, and planning sessions Bring AI fluency to program management work — use tools like Figma, Jira, and AI assistants to accelerate your own workflow, and help the team adopt new tools effectively Experience: 7+ years in design program management, product design, or a relevant design industry role

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📍 Palo Alto, CA· Full-time· Hybrid
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A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role As a Mobility Tax Analyst, you will be responsible for assisting with the payroll tax compliance and accounting reporting areas of Palantir’s Global Mobility program. You will craft, implement, and execute processes to streamline workflows, reduce friction, and deliver great customer service to our mobile employees. In this role you’ll be assisting the Mobility Tax team to ensure the tax implications of every assignment are understood and accounted for correctly by both Palantir and our assignees. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with the Finance, People and Legal teams and business leads to support the seamless movement of Palantir employees around the world. To be successful in this role you’ll need a combination of program management, process optimization, and execution skills in addition to a working knowledge of mobility tax workflows. We value problem solvers who are energized by the chance to improve the efficiency or accuracy of existing processes.

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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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📍 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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📍 Palo Alto, CA· Full-time· Hybrid
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A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role This is a high-impact role that offers the opportunity to collaborate with stakeholders across all areas of the business, supporting critical legal-related workflows and outcomes. As an Embedded Legal Engineer, you'll be uniquely positioned at the intersection of engineering and legal, working directly within our Legal Team to transform high-touch, manual workflows into scalable, automated solutions. This is a mission-critical role that combines deep technical expertise with intimate understanding of end to end legal operations challenges, enabling you to build tooling that directly impacts all Palantirians across the globe. In this role you’ll have the unique opportunity to directly influence and scale internal legal operations for our customers (Palantirians), who are working alongside the world's most critical institutions. By building on Palantir’s powerful platforms, leveraging integrated cutting-edge AI, you’ll help Palantir unlock the full potential to make smarter, faster decisions.

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📍 San Francisco, CA· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -72.4%
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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 high-impact Legal Operations Program Manager to join our expanding Legal Operations Team and sit at the center of our mergers & acquisitions (M&A) and post-close integration activity! This is a strategy-to-execution role that serves as the operating backbone for Legal across our most strategic transactions — owning legal integration execution in partnership with Lyft’s Corporate Development Integration Management Office (IMO), and the intake and governance layer that connects the Legal team to deal and integration work. The ideal candidate is tech-savvy, detail oriented, proactive, and able to drive outcomes across multiple concurrent transactions in ambiguous, high-stakes environments with a collaborative and transparent approach. Some key areas include: M&A integration program management, program leadership across concurrent initiatives, cross-functional and deal team engagement, outside counsel and vendor management across jurisdictions, legal entity management and governance, and building the repeatable operating model that scales Legal integration with company growth. This position reports to the Head of Legal Operations. As the company scales, the volume and complexity of strategic transactions — M&A, cross-border expansion, and new market entry — continues to increase. This role establishes a centralized operating model for Legal integration that ensures: Strategic transactions are executed with discipline, completeness, and a clear critical path Legal is embedded early and effectively, with strong planning-to-execution across multiple teams to deliver strong business results and manage risk The organization scales without accumulating operational, compliance, or technical debt Responsibilities: M&A Integration Program Management Own end-to-end legal in

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📍 San Francisco, CA· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -72.4%
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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. Lyft is hiring an experienced, talented and energetic M&A lawyer to join our expanding Legal team. You will lead a broad range of corporate and transactional matters and provide effective, business-focused legal advice to stakeholders throughout Lyft. Our legal work is cutting edge and always evolving. Reporting into the VP, Deputy General Counsel, Corporate & Commercial, we are looking for an entrepreneurial, resourceful, and highly collaborative leader who can continuously assess and advise on legal issues using a creative and pragmatic approach. Responsibilities: Lead a wide range of corporate initiatives, including complex M&A and integrations, divestitures, strategic investments, joint ventures, domestic and international corporate structuring, capital markets transactions, financing matters, subsidiary management and other strategic corporate projects. Manage and mentor a high-performing in-house team of M&A legal professionals, fostering a culture of growth and execution excellence. Partner closely with Lyft’s Corporate Development team and Treasury team as well as advise company leadership and cross-functional stakeholders (e.g. people, accounting, tax, treasury, operations, etc.) on novel corporate legal issues, opportunities and risks of corporate transactions. Draft and negotiate NDAs, LOIs/term sheets and definitive transaction agreements. Shape, scale and improve our legal processes/playbooks that enable both legal and business functions to scale effectively. Assist other teams with projects on an as-needed basis. Experience: 10+ years of experience practicing corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on M&A and strategic transactions; experience at a top-tier law firm and in-house experience at a public company are both required. Degree from top-tier law s

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $143.6K/yr

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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . We’re looking for a highly organized, tech-savvy, and proactive litigation paralegal to join Reddit’s Legal team. In this role, you will be the primary paralegal and operational lead supporting Reddit’s Employment, IP, and General Litigation teams. This role is ideal for someone who is equally comfortable handling day-to-day matter support and scaling systems to make a growing litigation function run better. You should be excited to own core litigation support workflows, improve processes, manage discovery and preservation work-streams, and help Reddit use legal technology and AI thoughtfully to increase efficiency. Location : Hybrid. This role is remote; however, the successful candidate must be able to work from our San Francisco office approximately once a week. What You’ll Do: Serve as the lead paralegal supporting Reddit’s employment, IP, and general litigation dockets. Own core case support workflows, including matter intake, trackers, calendaring, document management, deadline tracking, and matter closeout. Coordinate with outside counsel on filings, discovery, document collection and production, invoices, and day-to-day matter administration. Own and manage Reddit’s legal hold and preservation process, including drafting legal hold notices, issuing and tracking legal holds, and managing preservation activities within various systems to ensure the preservation of potentially relevant information. Lead and assist with e-discovery matters, including initiating and managing data collections

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listing

$150K – $230K/yr

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Sigma Computing is seeking an experienced employment counsel to provide legal guidance on all aspects of employment law across the organization. This role will partner closely with People Operations, leadership, and business teams to manage risk, ensure compliance, and support a positive employee experience in a fast-paced, high-growth technology environment. Key Responsibilities Provide legal advice on employment-related matters including onboarding, performance management, disciplinary actions, terminations, and reductions in force; Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations (U.S. and, if applicable, international); Draft, review, and update employment agreements, offer letters, contractor agreements, policies, and handbooks; Advise on employee relations issues and dispute resolution; Manage and oversee outside employment counsel and litigation matters; Complete workplace investigations; Partner with People Ops (HR) and Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC) teams on compliance training, and policy implementation; Monitor changes in employment law and proactively recommend updates to company practices; Support M&A, due diligence, and integration efforts related to employment matters as needed. Qualifications Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school; Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction; 5+ years of experience practicing employment law (in-house experience at a technology or SaaS company preferred); Workplace investigation training and experience; Strong knowledge of U.S. employment laws (FLSA, ADA, FMLA, Title VII, wage & hour, classification, etc.); Ability to provide practical, business-oriented legal advice is essential; Workplace investigation training and experience; Experience working closely with HR/People teams and senior leadership; and Excellent communication, judgment, and stakeholder management skills. Preferred Qualifications Experience s

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $164.8K/yr

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At Scale, we are driving the future of AI and Machine Learning across a variety of industries. As the Program Manager for Compliance, you will play a pivotal role in the continued success of Scale. Your role will be instrumental in ensuring the effective operation of our Compliance department and our GRC function, allowing us to maintain the highest standards in our industry. Reporting to the Director & Associate General Counsel, Compliance, you will be a dedicated program manager for Scale's enterprise compliance program and the person who turns policy into practice across anti-bribery and anti-corruption, gifts and entertainment, conflicts of interest, third-party risk and sanctions, policy lifecycle, and company-wide training. This is a hands-on builder, not a maintenance role. You will support Commercial, Public Sector, and international business lines, working closely with Legal, Procurement, Finance, Security, and go-to-market teams. You will: Help build, design, improve, and streamline Scale's core compliance programs, including anti-bribery and anti-corruption (ABAC), gifts and entertainment, conflicts of interest, and third-party risk and sanctions screening. Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to improve compliance policies, processes, and procedures. Monitor regulatory developments relevant to Scale's business, translate them into concrete policy and process changes, and track compliance obligations flowing out of customer contracts. Partner with leadership to build, mature, and operationalize the company's enterprise risk management (ERM) framework, identifying and assessing key business risks. Build the reporting layer: metrics and periodic reporting that give Legal & GRC leadership a defensible picture of program health. Flex into audit and assurance work during peak certification periods, and own inbound customer and investor compliance diligence questionnaires. Ideally you'd have: 5+ years building or operating ethics and c

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $227.2K/yr

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Come join our legal team to work on the most exciting legal, policy, and operational issues at the leading edge of AI. We're seeking strong product lawyers with specialized expertise in intellectual property law. As product counsel, you will advise on all legal aspects of product development, launch, and operations - including regulatory compliance, user terms, and risk management - while bringing deep expertise in your specialized legal area. The ideal candidate will have deep subject matter expertise in intellectual property law, a technology background, and a demonstrable history of providing practical product counsel to solve complex, time-sensitive problems in close partnership with cross-functional teams. This role reoprts to the Associate General Counsel, IP & Product. You will: Strategic Product Advice: Lead IP strategy for product development, embedding IP protection into the full product lifecycle from conception to commercialization, while also advising on related product and regulatory matters in collaboration with the broader legal team. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Research, Product, Engineering, Operations, Communications, and Marketing teams to mitigate IP risks in product development, data licensing, and open-source governance. IP Counsel: Support management of Scale's worldwide IP portfolio including patents and trademarks; assist with patent prosecution and trademark registration and enforcement. Risk Mitigation: Advise on third-party, synthetic, and open-source data and models, ensuring compliance with licensing requirements; design open-source governance policies. Agreements: Support drafting and negotiation of commercial agreement provisions involving intellectual property. Specialized Expertise: Provide counsel on machine learning, robotics, and other technical areas, with ability to engage effectively with technical teams on complex engineering and product issues. Training: Develop and deliver IP and data licensing trainin

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📍 Palo Alto, CA· Full-time· Hybrid
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A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role Palantir’s in‑house legal team works to proactively address legal issues so that Palantir can continue to drive positive impact in the world. As Corporate Counsel, you will serve as a key advisor on corporate governance and securities matters, leveraging your public company experience to ensure our compliance and support our growth as a public company. You will take ownership of critical areas such as investment management, trading compliance, strategic transactions, corporate governance, and public company reporting. In addition, you’ll play a central role in structuring, implementing, and administering equity compensation plans for employees globally, collaborating with cross-functional teams to align our equity programs with Palantir’s mission and values. This is a high-impact role where you will consistently work cross-functionally and with leadership teams (including the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, and Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Legal Officer), and will translate complex legal requirements into clear communications and actionable strategies that support Palantir’s continued innovation and success as a public company. In this role, you will join a team that values broad-based experience and a relentless drive to learn quickly in a dynamic environment. We prioritize practical solutions and outcomes that ensure compliance with public company requirements while maximizing benefits for our employee base and advancing Palantir’s mission. Your ability to adapt, think creatively, and work collaboratively will be essential as you take on complex issues and transactions.

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📍 Palo Alto, CA· Full-time· Hybrid
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A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role Palantir’s in-house legal team works to proactively address legal issues so that Palantir can continue to drive positive impact in the world. We are deeply embedded in Palantir’s mission and culture, take time to connect with folks across the global Palantir community, and are viewed across the company as key to Palantir’s success. Legal Operations is the organizational backbone of the legal team at Palantir and our Deal Administrators directly support all aspects of revenue generation at the company. Our Deal Operations Administrators have a strong understanding of Palantir’s growth strategy, and are eager to implement and operationalize that strategy in our contracting processes. Our Deal Operations Administrators have a passion for helping others, making them an invaluable resource to our customer deal pipeline. As a Deal Operations Administrator, you will be handling a wide variety of responsibilities throughout the customer contracting lifecycle. You will support Palantir’s lawyers and contracting specialists, in collaboration with our sales team and executives, to facilitate the growth of our business by managing all aspects of contract administration. As part of the Deal Operations team, you will become an expert in your specific customer vertical, take ownership for specialized scaling projects and critical initiatives as it relates to each business unit. Throughout your work, you will take initiative, operate with resourcefulness, and execute quickly and effectively the processes that drive revenue at Palantir. You’ll leverage your excellent communication skills, and exercise tact and diplomacy in helping to manage relationships with teams acros

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