Corporate Counsel, Cloud Legal, Go-To-Market
Minimum qualifications:
- JD, LL.B., equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status) in Canada.
- 7 years of attorney-level experience in government, in-house, or at a law firm.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience supporting Canada GTM including regulated markets like banking, telco, and healthcare or an established plan to master their team structures and priorities.
- Experience managing multiple agreements and projects simultaneously in a changing environment.
- Knowledge of cloud services, AI, data privacy, cybersecurity, professional services, IP, and regulatory terms.
- Ability to simplify complex legal issues for non-legal stakeholders and to be solution-driven, demonstrating sound business judgement and strategic thinking.
- Excellent team-work skills with the ability to influence others to find balanced business and legal solutions.
About the job
As Corporate Counsel at Google, you work on the most exciting legal issues as disruptive technological innovations require creative and proactive legal guidance. You're part of a whip-smart group of in-house lawyers and the projects and cases you take on challenge you to think big and differently. You are collaborative -- ready to partner in initiatives that influence all aspects of the business and work with Googlers from all over the company. As an integrated part of the team, you proactively assess legal risks and advise on products that will not only move information into the 21st century, but move information law forward as well.
The Canada Cloud Legal Go-to-Market (GTM) team supports dynamic and fast growing enterprise Google Cloud businesses across many areas of the Cloud sales organization in Canada, including the financial services, healthcare, retail and Cloud security sectors. We provide expert guidance and innovative solutions to help Google Cloud navigate the rapidly evolving legal and regulatory landscape of the cloud technology market, tailored to the unique requirements of our products, businesses, customers, and partners.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with broader legal specialists like Cloud counsel, global Cloud Sales legal, regional and broader legal specialist sectors to support agreement acceleration and Cloud profitability. You will also work closely with the business team leads and stakeholders across the company including cross-functional product areas, Finance and Compliance.
Canada: $248000 - $255000 (CAD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
Canada: $272000 - $279000 (CAD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Negotiate, draft, and structure enterprise commercial agreements, including strategic partnership agreements, with a focus on cloud services, AI, data privacy, cybersecurity, professional services, IP, and regulatory terms, and other agreements as needed.
- Advise Cloud Sales executives and leads on agreement strategy, legal and business risks, contract interpretation, regulatory issues, and other transaction and customer relationship matters.
- Collaborate closely with other legal and stakeholder teams across Global Affairs and Cloud (such as Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP), Finance, Deal Pursuit, Compliance, and Product) on country specific objectives and initiatives in Canada commercial and public sector markets.
- Ensure compliance with Canada and broader international laws and applicable regulations.
- Promote the continuous improvement of Cloud agreement making through resource and fallback creation and programmatic enhancements.
Additional Information
- Published
- 2026-07-03T14:10:04.010Z
- Url
- https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/102157513029231302-corporate-counsel/
- Jobtype
- FULL_TIME
- Employer
- Languagecode
- en-US
- Remote
- onsite
- Isremote
- No
- Ishybrid
- No
- City
- Toronto
- State
- ON
- Country
- Canada