The role
Canonical needs a General Counsel to lead its global Legal and Compliance team, reporting to the COO. You'll build the governance, contracting and licensing framework for a possible public listing.
What you'll do
- Lead the global Legal and Compliance function across EMEA and the Americas
- Build and manage a layer of managers across regions
- Own public-market readiness: governance, disclosure controls and policies
- Set open source licensing and IP strategy, including copyleft and trademark
- Advise the CEO, COO, CFO and the Board
What they're looking for
Must-haves
- Law degree and an active licence to practice in an EMEA or Americas jurisdiction
- Senior in-house experience at a global technology or software business
- Experience leading a distributed legal team, including managing managers
- Open source licensing knowledge, permissive and copyleft
- Depth in two of data protection, IP, export controls, competition or disputes
Nice to have
- IPO experience or counsel inside a listed company
- Technical or engineering background
- Experience in a subscription business model
The company
Canonical
Profitable, distributed open source firm
Canonical is the founder-led, profitable company behind Ubuntu, widely used in public cloud, AI, data science and IoT. It has been fully distributed since 2004, with no central headquarters.
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