Paralegal

About CoLab

At CoLab, we help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner.

CoLab is the AI platform for driving stronger engineering decisions. Every design review in CoLab builds a knowledge repository of design feedback, decisions, and lessons learned - which AI agents draw from to flag issues on future designs before they compound. The more your team works in CoLab, the smarter it gets and the faster you arrive at the ideal design. Companies like Ford, Komatsu, and Johnson Controls use CoLab to catch issues earlier, eliminate rework cycles, and bring products to market faster.

Founded in St. John’s, Newfoundland, CoLab has grown quickly from our first customer in 2019 to a rapidly scaling company. We’ve recently been recognized on Deloitte’s Fast 50™ and Fast 500™, and named a Canadian company to watch by The Globe and Mail and Financial Post.

About the Role

You’ll be embedded in the day-to-day rhythm of the business, supporting a steady flow of commercial deals, vendor relationships, and internal initiatives. This isn’t a role where you wait for instructions or route paperwork. You’ll build the systems that make legal work at scale.

On any given week, you might be reviewing a high volume of NDAs, tightening up contract language for a new vendor, and figuring out how to standardize terms so the next 50 deals move twice as fast.

You’ll work closely with GTM, finance, and leadership. The expectation is simple: when legal becomes a bottleneck, you fix it.

If you’re someone who sees repetitive work and immediately thinks “this should be automated,” you’ll feel at home here.

What you’ll do

• Review, draft, and manage a high volume of agreements (NDAs, vendor agreements, and other commercial contracts)
• Own contract lifecycle management—keeping records clean, accessible, and up to date
• Identify friction in legal workflows and build processes to reduce turnaround time
• Partner with internal teams to move deals forward while balancing risk and speed
• Create and maintain templates, playbooks, and guidelines that scale legal support across the company
• Flag risks early and propose practical, business-aware solutions
• Support broader legal and compliance initiatives as the company grows

Who you are: 

• 3+ years of experience as a paralegal, ideally in a SaaS or high-growth environment
• Strong experience reviewing and managing commercial contracts
• Comfortable handling multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously
• Clear, concise communicator—especially when translating legal nuance for non-legal teams
• Systems thinker: you look for ways to improve, automate, and scale processes
• High ownership mindset with strong attention to detail

Bonus

• Experience with contract lifecycle management tools
• Exposure to data privacy, compliance, or corporate governance work

Equity Note

Frequently cited statistics show that people who identify with historically marginalized groups are likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to help us break that statistic and apply even if you don’t meet every single qualification—your potential is what matters most to us.