Senior Counsel

Contract Development & Commercial Legal Strategy

• Review, update, draft, negotiate, and manage a wide range of agreements (MSAs, Sales Order Forms, partnership agreements, licensing, NDAs, vendor contracts, employment agreements), ensuring compliance across jurisdictions.
• Build and maintain contract templates/clause libraries/negotiation playbooks, establish contract approval workflows, and implement a scalable contract management system.
• Provide pragmatic legal counsel to support the needs of Revenue, Product, Forests, Operations, and Corporate Development.

Transaction Strategy for New Business Models

• Advise on how to structure and document these models (i.e., licensing, cross-entity transactions, JV-style arrangements).
• Alongside Finance, ensure compliant and well-documented flows of funds, services, and rights across entities and partners.
• Support modelling, structuring, and execution of new offerings in areas such as restoration financing, reclamation markets, and planting-partner licensing.

Corporate Governance & Compliance

• Own and evolve veritree's corporate governance framework across veritree Inc. and veritree Foundations, including inter-entity controls and boundary management.
• Prepare and maintain board materials, corporate records, and regulatory filings in partnership with leadership team.
• Advise on privacy (PIPEDA/GDPR), marketing claims, impact reporting, and emerging regulatory trends (i.e., CSRD, TNFD).

Legal Risk Management & Product Support

• Work alongside Finance to assess enterprise risk and ensure veritree maintains appropriate insurance policies and coverage.
• Provide legal review for marketing, partnerships, and public communications.
• Partner with Product on data privacy, IP protection, and feature/compliance considerations.

Outside Counsel Management

• Manage and coordinate external lawyers (corporate, tax, employment, international, charity).
• Create an efficient workflow for when to escalate issues to external specialists.
• Own the legal budget and vendor relationships.

This role will architect the legal backbone of a global restoration platform, ensuring the company scales with clarity, compliance, and commercial rigour while demonstrating high levels of mission integrity to support planting billions of verified trees by 2030.

• J.D. or bachelor's degree in law from an accredited law school.
• Current member in good standing of the British Columbia law society.
• 5–7 years of experience in commercial, corporate, or charity law (mix of law firm + in-house preferred).
• Experience navigating cross-border contracting and regulatory considerations, including supporting international partners, multi-entity structures, and jurisdiction-specific compliance (Canada/US preferred).
• Strong competency in contract drafting, deal structuring, and cross-entity transactions.
• Experience with, or strong willingness to learn, Canadian/U.S. charity law.
• Comfort navigating new or ambiguous business models with sound judgment.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Practical, business-minded approach to risk management.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward a rapid pace.
• Intellectual curiosity and systems thinking aptitude.

• Competitive salary with a performance-driven framework that ensures fair and consistent compensation reviews, tied to individual impact and business growth
• Extended health, dental, and vision benefits
• Additional Health Spending Account (HSA) / Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA) to support your well-being and lifestyle interests
• A variety of time-off programs, including vacation, personal days, and a 4-week remote work program each year
• Employee discount with tentree, our sister company
• A flexible, hybrid work environment designed for collaboration and focus-driven impact

veritree is an award-winning climate tech startup based in Vancouver that measures and verifies the impact of global restoration efforts from the ground up, with a mission to plant billions of verified trees by 2030 through transformative restoration projects.