The role
This is the first dedicated in-house legal role for Gofo’s Canadian operations. Reporting into the United States legal team, you will be the company’s primary Canadian legal resource: owning employment and labour matters end to end while advising across commercial, transportation-regulatory, corporate, and privacy issues as the Canadian business scales. You will work day to day with HR, operations, and US legal team, translating a US-trained organization’s instincts into Canadian-correct outcomes — and flagging where Canadian law diverges before it becomes a problem.
The role suits a pragmatic generalist who is comfortable being the counsel on the ground, taking clear positions, and building process where little yet exists.
Employment and labour
- Advise on hiring, employment agreements, worker classification (employee, dependent contractor, and independent contractor), discipline, terminations, and statutory and common-law entitlements across the active provinces.
- Own the federal-versus-provincial labour jurisdiction analysis for the operating entities, and keep it current as the operational footprint and service model evolve.
- Draft and maintain offer letters, employment and contractor agreements, restrictive covenants, and workplace policies that comply with provincial employment standards, human rights, and occupational health and safety regimes (and federal requirements where they apply).
- Manage employment disputes, regulatory complaints, and any labour-relations or union activity, instructing and supervising external counsel where appropriate.
Commercial and transportation
- Draft, review, and negotiate carrier, subcontractor, vendor, customer, and service agreements, with particular attention to contracts of carriage and how interprovincial movement is allocated between Gofo and third parties.
- Advise on transportation, logistics, and last-mile regulatory requirements affecting Canadian and interprovincial operations.
Corporate, regulatory, and privacy
- Support corporate maintenance and governance for the Canadian entities — filings, resolutions, minute books, and registered-office matters — coordinating with external service providers.
- Advise on Canadian privacy obligations, including PIPEDA and provincial equivalents such as BC PIPA, and on cross-border transfers of employee and customer data to the US parent and affiliates.
- Monitor legislative and regulatory developments across the Canadian footprint and translate them into actionable guidance for the business.
Function-building and cross-border
- Act as the bridge between the Canadian business and US Headquarter legal team: escalate appropriately, surface Canadian-distinctive risk early, and keep the US team informed.
- Build the templates, playbooks, and processes a scaling Canadian operation needs, and support entry into new provinces — including Quebec — as a routine extension.
What you will bring
- Called to the bar of Ontario or British Columbia and a member in good standing of the relevant law society preferred. Membership in (or eligibility for call in) additional provinces is an asset but not mandatory.
- [3–5]+ years of relevant experience, in-house and/or at a recognized firm, with substantial depth in Canadian employment and labour law.
- Demonstrated generalist breadth across commercial contracting, corporate and governance, regulatory, and privacy matters.
- Sound, practical judgment and a business-facing style; able to take clear positions and operate with limited supervision as the sole Canadian counsel.
Assets
- Experience in logistics, transportation, supply chain, retail, or another operationally regulated industry.
- Familiarity with worker-classification risk in transportation and dependent-contractor doctrine.
- Professional working proficiency in French, in anticipation of expansion into Quebec.
- Experience standing up or scaling an in-house legal function.
Pay: $73,116.25-$120,283.37 per year
Work Location: In person
