Legal Counsel
Canaan is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in transformative healthcare and technology companies.
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About Canaan
Canaan is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in transformative ideas across healthcare and technology. The firm backs visionary teams, supports company building through capital and strategic advice, and offers portfolio services through Canaan Build, including talent, human resources, go-to-market, marketing, sales, partnerships, and operational guidance. Canaan serves early-stage founders and companies developing innovative healthcare, technology, fintech, infrastructure, and other science- and technology-driven products.
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About the Role
You will draft, review, and negotiate domestic and international contracts and legal documents. You will provide practical legal support to sales, HR, logistics, finance, and IT. You will manage corporate compliance, trademark matters, legal records, external counsel, and AI-enabled workflow improvements.
Requirements
- Master's degree in law or a related field
- Chinese legal professional qualification or passage of a legal qualification examination in another jurisdiction
- 3–5 years of law-firm or in-house legal experience
- Strong English listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills
- Ability to independently support sales, HR, logistics, finance, and IT functions
- Cross-functional communication and project-management skills
- Practical experience using AI and automation tools and reviewing AI outputs
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate domestic and international contracts and legal documents
- Provide practical legal support to sales, HR, logistics, finance, and IT
- Handle legal matters including regulatory filings, related-party transaction management, audit support, and global entity governance
- Manage the full trademark lifecycle, including applications, renewals, oppositions, evidence, deadlines, and external agents
- Build and maintain legal document archives and knowledge-management systems
- Use AI and automation tools to streamline legal workflows
- Review and correct AI-generated legal analyses, contract revisions, and filing documents
- Identify inefficient legal and business processes and drive standardization and automation
- Coordinate internal departments, external lawyers, company secretaries, trademark agents, and other service providers
