Senior Legal Counsel - Brand & Commercial

Your Opportunity at ARC'TERYX:

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 at scale. This 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.