General Counsel

Vendasta; Saskatoon; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Vendasta, headquartered in Saskatoon, seeks a General Counsel to build a high-performing legal function and serve as a strategic advisor to the executive team for global scale.

You will lead legal strategy, corporate transactions, governance, and risk management in an AI-first SaaS environment.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years post-bar experience in SaaS/tech, a JD/LLB, Saskatchewan bar membership, and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Post-admission to the bar; SaaS/tech experience preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Comprehensive expertise in corporate, commercial, and intellectual property law.
• Ability to establish governance frameworks and manage ethical AI strategy implementations.

Responsibilities

• Define overall legal strategy and AI governance.
• Lead mergers, acquisitions, and capital markets transactions from due diligence to post-close integration.
• Oversee corporate governance filings and regulatory compliance across global operations.
• Negotiate and draft sophisticated commercial agreements and policies.

Skills

Legal experience

M&A

Corporate law

Privacy compliance

Governance frameworks

Education

LLB/JD degree

Bar admission (Saskatchewan)

Job description

At Vendasta, we’re leading the AI revolution from right here in Saskatoon—and beyond. We work together to empower our partners and customers through our AI-powered customer acquisition and engagement platform to help them get more customers—and keep them. We’re proud to share that Vendasta has officially been named one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures for 2025!

The mission of the General Counsel is to build and manage a high-performing legal function that supports Vendasta's global scale as a strategic "Right-Hand" to the executive team. The incumbent of this role demonstrates exceptional business acumen, strategic legal planning, proactive risk management, and organizational stewardship and will be responsible for leading the organization's day-to-day and long-term legal strategy, managing capital market transactions, and overseeing corporate compliance and risk mitigation across an AI-first SaaS environment.

What You’ll Own

Legal Strategy & Corporate Transactions:

• Define overall organizational legal and AI strategies while overseeing ethical and responsible implementation of frameworks across all corporate, commercial, and intellectual property matters.
• Lead the legal strategy for upcoming mergers, acquisitions, debt and equity transactions, and partner with corporate development to navigate pre-and post-close due diligence and integration.
• Support the CFO in building out a comprehensive, best-in-class capital markets communication program to ensure organizational liquidity event readiness.

Contract Management & Framework Governance:

• Negotiate and draft sophisticated commercial agreements, policies, reports, and guidelines for suppliers, customers, and global business partnerships.
• Establish organizational governance frameworks and a centralized company policy repository, working with cross-functional policy owners to verify accuracy, alignment, and completeness.
• Oversee transactional negotiations while balancing the technical, commercial, financial, and legal priorities of the organization to effectively protect Vendasta’s business interests.

Compliance, Risk Mitigation & External Relations:

• Actively evaluate prospective macro-level risk and provide proactive guidance to the executive team on data privacy (including GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC) and changing global regulatory fields.
• Manage ongoing relationships, compliance workflows, and information requests with external legal stakeholders, regulators, creditors, and investors.
• Coordinate all corporate governance filings, administration of the Annual General Meeting (AGM), and the structural integrity of corporate shareholdings, records, minutes, and resolutions.

What You’ll Bring

Role-specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Must Have & Nice to Have):

• 5+ years of relevant experience (post-admission to the bar) in a law firm or as an in-house counsel: Preferably within a SaaS or technology environment.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred in Bachelor of Laws (LLB) or Juris Doctor degree (JD).
• Active member in good standing with the Law Society of Saskatchewan (or equivalent reciprocal jurisdiction).
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written and verbal formats.
• Comprehensive expertise in corporate, commercial, and intellectual property law within technology or SaaS contexts.
• Proven capability to establish trusted organizational governance frameworks and manage ethical, secure AI strategy implementations (AI Vision/M5–M6 level alignment).
• Demonstrated competency in leading mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and capital markets transactions from due diligence through post-close integration.
• In-depth knowledge of global privacy rules and data protection requirements (GDPR, HIPAA, SOC).

About Vendasta

We help businesses get more customers. And keep them. Vendasta is an AI-powered customer acquisition and engagement platform for SMBs and the partners who support them, streamlining marketing, sales, and operations through intelligent AI employees, automation, and real-time actions and insights. From creating awareness to nurturing lasting customer relationships, Vendasta offers a suite of solutions with AI assistants that streamline every stage of the customer journey. By combining a business's unique data with AI and automation, Vendasta simplifies marketing, sales, and operations, eliminating the need for multiple disjointed systems.

Join the Vendasta team, where your professional mastery and intellectual growth drive our platform forward. Step into an AI-first organization built for elite problem solvers who thrive on tackling complex business challenges and scaling sophisticated, automation-driven solutions.

Accelerate your professional trajectory through rigorous learning tracks, continuous operational development, and exposure to cutting-edge AI methodologies designed to push the boundaries of the B2B SaaS industry. We are bound by a high-performance culture rooted in our core values—Drive, Innovation, Respect, and Agility—where the true reward is the complexity of the challenge and the scale of your global impact. At Vendasta, you will find the infrastructure to build, the ecosystem to innovate, and an elite peer group required to sharpen your expertise. Master your craft. Solve the impossible. Build the future of SaaS with us.

Discover your potential. Build something that matters. Join the AI revolution from right here in Saskatoon