Overview
Senior Legal Counsel – Brand & Commercial Jobs in North Vancouver, Canada at Arc’teryx Equipment
As Senior Legal Counsel, Brand & Commercial, you will be a strategic legal partner to the Arc’teryx Brand organization, helping bring global brand strategy to life across campaigns, collaborations, athlete and ambassador relationships, events, content, agencies, partnerships, consumer activations, and regional commercial execution. This role is embedded with Brand and works closely with Commercial teams where brand strategy meets the guest, including retail, ecommerce, wholesale, regional activations, guest programs, and other consumer‑facing initiatives.
You will provide practical, business-oriented legal guidance that helps Arc’teryx move quickly, creatively, and responsibly. You will advise senior leaders and cross-functional partners on legal risk, commercial structure, brand integrity, advertising and marketing review, contracts, consumer-facing initiatives, and strategic projects. You will help the business make smart decisions early, reduce friction, and protect the premium trust that makes Arc’teryx different. This is a role for the new type of in-house lawyer: entrepreneurial, pragmatic, commercially fluent, comfortable with ambiguity, and excited to operate inside a lean, high-performing, AI-enabled Legal team.
You will help shape how Legal supports Brand and Commercial s role is based in Vancouver and is open to hybrid work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.
Meet Your Future Team
The Legal team sits within the People, Culture & Transformation organization at Arc’teryx and supports IP coordination, risk, compliance, employment, APAC, retail, supply chain, footwear, Veilance, and strategic projects. We operate as a Legal 3.0 function: practical, AI-enabled, commercially focused, and built to help the business move faster and smarter. We protect the business, enable deals, support decision-making, and build legal infrastructure through templates, playbooks, technology, and clear escalation paths.
In this role, you will work closely with Brand leaders, Commercial and regional business partners, the Arc’teryx Legal team, Amer Sports legal colleagues, external counsel, and cross‑functional teams including Creative, Retail, Ecommerce, Membership, Communications, Product, Finance, Sustainability, and People Culture & Transformation.
Responsibilities
- Act as a strategic legal partner to the Brand organization, advising on campaigns, creative concepts, athlete and ambassador relationships, sponsor ships, collaborations, events, film tours, academies, social media, influencer programs, and other brand‑building initiatives.
- Partner with Commercial teams where Brand strategy is executed across regions, retail, ecommerce, wholesale, membership, guest‑facing programs, and other consumer‑facing channels.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including agency agreements, creative services agreements, production agreements, sponsorship and ambassador agreements, collaboration agreements, event agreements, licensing arrangements, vendor agreements, services agreements, and strategic partnership agreements.
- Provide practical legal guidance on advertising, marketing, promotions, sweepstakes, contests, consumer protection, talent usage, content rights, publicity rights, trademark usage, and brand integrity.
- Guide Brand and Commercial leaders to identify legal risks early and make business decisions with clear, risk‑calibrated advice.
- Partner with the IP Director, Brand Protection, Privacy, Technology, Amer Sports legal colleagues, and external counsel when matters involve trademarks, IP ownership, content usage, privacy, consumer data, regional law, or litigation risk.
- Lead regional and global commercial activations by helping teams navigate cross‑border legal issues, local counsel input, approval requirements, and escalation paths.
- Develop and improve templates, playbooks, workflows, and self‑service resources so Brand and Commercial teams can move faster on routine matters.
- Leverage legal technology tools to improve contract review, research, drafting, playbook development, and legal operations.
- Manage external counsel effectively, including scoping legal advice,…
Title: Senior Legal Counsel – Brand & Commercial
Company: Arc’teryx Equipment
Location: North Vancouver, Canada
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