You'll be responsible for:
- Working in a fast-paced business and technology environment, partnering with business units, and playing a key role in driving the company's products and services forward.
- Providing strategic and actionable legal advice on key portfolios in the business and emerging technologies to complete time-sensitive projects while mitigating potential legal risks.
- Exercising business judgment to deliver practical and pragmatic solutions in an environment when the "right" legal answer is often unclear.
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a diverse range of commercial contracts and product documentation, including commercial product offerings, technology vendor agreements, service provider agreements, proof of concept agreements, letters of intent, software and evaluation license agreements (on premise and cloud), customer software development agreements, incentive agreements, sponsorship agreements, and consulting services agreements.
- Advising on operationalizing product and technology strategy and contracts in a complex, highly-regulated, complex ecosystem supported by a multi-vendor environment, and proactively identifying and resolving associated legal issues.
- Working as a collaborative member of the Legal team, a mentor to junior lawyers, and a resource for internal knowledge management and precedent development.
You bring:
- A Law Degree and membership in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario.
- A minimum of 8 years practical, post-call legal experience in both a corporate legal department and a law firm.
- Eligibility to work for Interac Corp. in Canada in a full-time capacity.
- Prior experience working for technology vendors, in financial services or the payment industry (preferred).
- Working knowledge of privacy law, cybersecurity practices, the Payment Clearing and Settlement Act, the Code of Conduct for the Debit and Credit Card Industry, CASL and other regulatory requirements applying to the financial services industry and payment network operators (preferred).
- Experience with financial services technologies, including mobile payments, digital banking, fraud solutions, digital identification, verification and authentication and other electronic payments technologies, in addition to traditional payment systems and payment card network operators (preferred).
- Proven experience advising on a wide range of matters spanning privacy, competition, intellectual property, technology, and licensing.
- A team player, ready and willing to take on a variety of responsibilities and roles that support the team, department, and organization.
- A critical thinker with cogent analysis of legal and business issues.
- Proficiency in identifying, assessing, and managing legal and reputational risk.
- The skills to be an independent, creative problem solver.
- Skills in time management and project prioritization.
- A keen interest in the products, services, and interdependencies at Interac and in the payment's ecosystem.
Interac requires employees to complete a background check that is completed by one of our service providers. We use this service to complete the following checks:
- Canadian criminal record check;
- Public safety verification;
- Canadian ID cross-check;
- 5-year employment verification;
- Education verification; and
- If applicable, Credit Inquiry and Social Media Check
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