Associate General Counsel, Revenue Legal

Associate General Counsel, Revenue Legal

Remote - Americas

At Shopify, we're not just building software—we're revolutionizing how the world does business. And behind every game-changing platform feature, every major enterprise deal, every innovative partnership, and every merchant success story is our incredible Legal team, solving unprecedented challenges and paving new paths in the digital commerce landscape.

The Team & Opportunity

Our Commercial Legal team is where legal expertise meets entrepreneurial energy, and we're scaling fast. We're hiring multiple lawyers in our Revenue Legal team, where you’ll craft enterprise deals and scalable commercial frameworks for the world’s most recognizable brands.

What Unites Our Work

This isn't typical legal work. You'll be:

• Deal-Making: Negotiating complex enterprise revenue deals
• Strategic Building: Creating scalable frameworks, playbooks and templates
• Problem-Solving: Tackling unprecedented legal challenges in commerce, fintech, and technology integrations

The Culture

We're collaborative, curious, and committed to making commerce better for everyone. You'll work alongside brilliant legal minds and passionate business leaders who value both intellectual rigor and creative problem-solving.

Success at Shopify requires intellect, humility, and a sense of humour (or humor if you're in the U.S.). We take our work seriously but never ourselves. Expect fast-paced intensity balanced with genuine care for each other, strategic thinking mixed with practical execution, and the kind of environment where your ideas can reshape how we do business.

What You Bring

You're someone who gets energized by ambiguity and thrives in the unknown. You've got strong commercial law experience with deep SaaS and technology expertise. Most importantly, you're someone who sees legal challenges as puzzles to solve, not obstacles to avoid.

Core Requirements:

• J.D. or LL.B and license to practice in any common law province in Canada or any U.S. state
• 8+ years of relevant legal experience, with a mix of law firm and in-house experience
• Substantial experience drafting and negotiating complex technology agreements (e.g., SaaS, licensing, cloud services)
• Experience supporting a large sales organization
• Experience managing multiple projects, priorities, stakeholders and deadlines
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to match your tone to your audience
• Proven track record with technology-related commercial agreements
• Ability to thrive in dynamic, entrepreneurial environments
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to build trust with business partners
• Keen interest in creative legal problem-solving and researching novel areas of law

Specifically for the revenue team, you'll be at the epicenter of Shopify's growth engine, crafting enterprise deals and architecting scalable legal frameworks for our revenue teams.

We’re looking for experience with

• Negotiating complex enterprise SaaS agreements with Fortune 500 companies and emerging unicorns
• Creating playbooks and templates that scale across global sales organization
• Bringing multi-million-dollar deals with global brands and strategic revenue partnerships home

Bonus Experience

• Experience with financial solutions and payments
• Privacy and data law expertise
• Ironclad or similar contract management platform experience
• Regulatory or ecommerce law background
• Experience in high-growth tech environments
• Use of AI tools in legal services delivery

Ready to Help Us Make Commerce Better for Everyone?

This is your chance to join a team that's literally reshaping global commerce, working on deals and challenges that push the boundaries of what's possible in legal and business innovation. We're looking for multiple brilliant lawyers who want to grow with us as we scale.

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About the discipline

Legal at Shopify

Every discipline at Shopify works close to real merchant problems. You'll join a team that owns meaningful scope, ships to a high bar, and helps millions of entrepreneurs start, run, and scale their businesses.

Growth and rewards

Mastery-matched compensation.

Explore rewards

~Mastery

At Shopify, getting better at your craft and increasing your impact is how you grow. Twice a year, we assess both in our ~Mastery cycle, Shopify’s performance review. Achieving higher ~Mastery is a promotion, and when you earn a promotion your total rewards grow with it. Crafter and manager are equal paths, so you can pursue excellence in the craft you’re best at.

Total Rewards

With Flex Comp, your Rewards Wallet gives you agency over your compensation mix. Adjust your mix of cash, restricted share units, and stock options (including programs like Long-Term Equity)* to where it makes sense for you, and mix it up anytime as life and priorities change. Buying a house? Want more skin in the game? Just experimenting? It’s your call.

* Flex Comp program offerings vary based on location, role, and employment type. Full details are set out in our Terms & Conditions and related plan documents.

Built for real life

Room for the rest of your life.

Flexible work, remote by design

A flexible vacation policy means most Shopifolk can take the vacation days they feel they need to recharge.

If a change of everyday scenery is more your jam, Destination 90 means you can work from (almost) anywhere in the world for 90 days of the year.

Your setup

Your battlestation is your home base. Request the desk, chair, and AV gear you need to get shit done.

Benefits

You need ‘em, we’ve got ‘em. Our health and welfare benefits may include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance depending on your country. If you’re in a country without a package, you'll receive a monthly allowance. We also offer mental health support for you and your dependents, including immediate and confidential services like counseling and coaching sessions.

Family support

We offer fertility benefits globally, along with paid parental leave to welcome a new family member.

Applying to work here

Show us your craft.

Read the candidate guide

1Life Story

The Life Story is how we understand the themes of your career journey so far, human to human. What you’ve learned, and how you made a difference. Show us the trophies and the bruises: the problems you’ve solved, the challenges you encountered, the decisions you made, and the lessons you learned along the way.

2Craft assessment

We’re looking for world-class crafters. Crafters obsessed with pursuing excellence in their field. Our craft assessment looks at your personal journey toward mastery, and your potential to go broader and deeper in novel ways.

You’ll start with an online assessment, followed by a craft assessment. Show us what you do best, and how you do it. Shopify’s bar is high. Let your skills do the talking.

3Craft interviews

Building on your craft assessment, these interviews dive deeper into your experience and technical aptitude. Depending on the role, this may include technical deep dives focusing on projects you've previously worked on, collaborating in a design critique, exploring a dataset using SQL, or taking the lead on solving a problem with your interviewer as your co-pilot.