About Poka
Poka is an innovative app designed for manufacturing companies that empower frontline workers to learn continuously, solve problems and collaborate in support of continuous improvement. Imagine a combination of Facebook and YouTube designed for factory workers. Say goodbye to paper, make way for tablets! 📱
Poka has become a catalyst for digital transformation and manufacturing leaders such as Nestlé, Bosch, Kraft and Danone trust us with their transition to Industry 4.0. 🏭
You will assist in a range of legal tasks, primarily supporting the Legal Manager with projects and tasks of the Legal department. The role focuses on assisting with contract reviews, legal research, and ensuring compliance with applicable regulations. This is an excellent opportunity for someone starting their legal career and seeking exposure to a broad range of commercial in-house legal matters in a fast-paced tech environment.
What you’ll be doing:
- Contract Support: Contributes to reviewing a broad range of agreements, such as non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), customer agreements and vendor agreements under the guidance of the Senior Legal Counsel.
- Legal Research: Conduct legal research on various issues, including commercial law, data privacy regulations, and employment law, and summarize findings for the Senior Legal Counsel.
- Legal operations: Help prepare legal documents and correspondence, including letters, agreements, policies, notices, internal playbooks and training.
- Compliance Monitoring: Support the Legal team in ensuring the company complies with relevant regulations, including helping with documentation for data privacy and corporate governance.
- Internal Collaboration: Under the direction of the Legal Manager, provide support to different departments (sales, HR, operations) on legal matters.
What You Bring to the Table:
- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), or Juris Doctor (J.D.), or an equivalent law degree, with eligibility to practice law in your location. .
- 1-3 years of experience in commercial or corporate practice, or recent graduates with relevant internship experience in corporate or commercial law.
- Strong legal research and writing skills.
- A solid understanding of contract law principles.
- Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Great communication skills, both in written and spoken, in English and French.
What would make you stand out:
- Prior in-house experience within the SaaS industry, ideally advising internal stakeholders on contractual documents.
- Ability to adopt a risk-based approach and provide pragmatic, solution-oriented advice.
- Privacy, security, or other relevant certifications.
What we offer:
- Dynamic and collaborative work environment.
- Generous vacation policy upon arrival.
- Hybrid work policy - Work from the office 2 days a week if you live within a 40km radius to our Quebec City office or a 15 km radius to our Montreal office.
- Truly flexible schedule and the possibility of taking every Friday afternoon off.
- Group insurance from day one (dental, medication, invalidity, travel, etc.).
- Telemedicine service with Dialogue.
- Retirement plan with Wealthsimple after a year.
- MacBook Pro and $500 allowance for your home office.
- Tasty snacks (Fresh fruits, snacks, coffees, teas, etc.)
- Generous referral bonus.
- Whatever you need to keep learning and evolve professionally.
- Rapid evolution in your role. Your responsibilities will not be limited!
*Certain benefits are exclusively accessible to employees in Canada.
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What We Do
Poka is a web and mobile app that helps manufacturers drive performance by empowering workers to learn, solve problems and share knowledge in real-time on the factory floor. Our platform is designed to connect workers and enable a culture of continuous improvement. Poka has become a catalyst for digital transformation among industrial leaders including 12 of the largest manufacturers based on IndustryWeek’s Global 1000 rank
