Legal Counsel - Canada
Required skills
- Law degree
- LLB
- LLM
- JD
- English fluency
- French fluency
Nice to have
- automotive industry
- ride-hailing industry
- in house counsel
- international legal teams
- international clients
Role summary
Waymo is seeking a Legal Counsel for its Canadian operations to advise on legal matters related to autonomous driving technology. This hybrid role involves providing hands-on legal services, strategic guidance on business, corporate strategy, and governance issues relevant to Canada. The counsel will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including public policy, product, regulatory, and operations, to develop and implement strategies, navigate Canadian laws and regulations, and monitor legal changes. The position requires a law degree, license to practice in Ontario, and at least 5 years of legal experience, with a preference for experience in technology, automotive, or ride-hailing industries in Canada, and in-house counsel experience.
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.
As part of Waymo's Legal team, you will work on the exciting legal issues surrounding our transformational autonomous driving technology and help drive our business lines forward from technology ideation through scaled commercial deployment. We partner with our public policy, safety, security and privacy experts to define transportation policy for the autonomous driving world to come, advising on regulatory changes that support and protect our users around the world. We collaborate with our engineering, product, strategy and operations teams to develop and protect our intellectual property portfolio and drive our corporate and commercial transactions. We ensure compliance with an increasingly complex and dynamic range of global regulations. And we anticipate, mitigate, and litigate high-profile and precedent-setting legal matters.
In this hybrid role, you will report into our Managing Counsel.
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