General Counsel - Global Open-Source Leader
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted October 1, 2025
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Remote
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Job Description
Canonical is seeking a Global General Counsel to lead its in-house legal, ESG, and regulatory compliance teams, managing a wide range of commercial contracts and strategic legal matters in a dynamic open source technology environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the legal, ESG, regulatory compliance, and reporting team globally.
- Establish policies and default positions on commercial, regulatory, and strategic matters.
- Represent the company on complex regulatory issues across multiple jurisdictions.
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts, including complex agreements with large global customers.
- Manage software licensing, technology service agreements, intellectual property, tax, employment, and real estate matters.
- Coordinate and communicate with legal counsel, executives, managers, and open source community members.
- Conduct legal research and produce industry- or jurisdiction-specific analysis or position statements.
Requirements
- An undergraduate degree in law, JD or equivalent, and active license to practice law
- Demonstrated leadership and management skill in a high profile, consequential role
- Experience in corporate, commercial, and intellectual property law with a software or technology focus
- Understanding of digital privacy, and the challenges in defending privacy, in a complex geopolitical environment
- Ability to organise, prioritise and coordinate projects with end-to-end responsibility
- Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
- Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
- Passion for technology evidenced by personal projects and initiatives
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation and interpersonal skills
- Appreciative of diversity, polite and effective in a multi-cultural, multi-national organisation
- Curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- Thoughtfulness and self-motivation
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
Benefits & Perks
Annual compensation review
Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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