Senior Paralegal
Shakepay is a Canadian financial services company that lets Canadians buy, sell, send, and hold bitcoin and ethereum. It also offers bitcoin rewards, direct deposit, cashback, and wallet transfers.
Funding
About Shakepay
Shakepay provides a Canadian crypto platform for buying and selling bitcoin and ethereum, sending money, and moving bitcoin to private wallets or cash to banks. Its offerings include recurring bitcoin buys, bitcoin rewards for shaking and shopping, direct deposit, referrals, business services, and private-client services. The company states that it is a CIRO member, registered as an Investment Dealer across Canadian provinces and territories, and licensed by FINTRAC as a Money Service Business.
Skills
About the Role
You will own day-to-day legal operations and corporate administration, maintaining corporate records, minute books, governance documents, and annual filings. You will prepare, review, organize, and coordinate execution of contracts, NDAs, signature packages, and templates. You will support regulatory and compliance initiatives through document management, evidence collection, licensing and registration work, and regulatory responses. You will manage legal intake, priorities, deadlines, and matter tracking. You will improve how Legal operates by building templates, playbooks, workflows, and AI-enabled processes, and partner with teams across the company to help legal work move efficiently.
Requirements
- Certified paralegal or equivalent Canadian corporate law clerk/paralegal qualification
- 5+ years of experience supporting an in-house legal team or law firm
- Strong experience with corporate governance, corporate records, commercial contracts, and legal administration
- Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail and follow-through
- Comfortable working independently, managing competing priorities, and bringing structure to ambiguous problems
- Curious about technology and excited to use AI and automation to improve the way legal work gets done
- Excellent written communication, judgment, and discretion
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day legal operations and corporate administration
- Maintain corporate records, minute books, governance documents, annual filings, and entity records
- Prepare, review, organize, and coordinate execution of contracts, NDAs, signature packages, templates, and other legal documentation
- Support regulatory and compliance initiatives through document management, evidence collection, licensing and registration work, and regulatory responses
- Manage legal intake, priorities, deadlines, and matter tracking
- Improve Legal operations by building templates, playbooks, workflows, knowledge management, and AI-enabled processes
- Partner with teams across the company to help legal work move efficiently
