Every Canadian pet deserves care that's within reach and affordable.

Yet half of Canadian pet parents skipped or declined needed care for their pet in the past year, mostly on cost.[1] Nearly nine in ten Canadian veterinarians report burnout.[2]

We built a televeterinary service to remove the bottlenecks between pet parents and the veterinary care their animals need.

We are looking for experienced veterinarians to join our small clinical team and deliver that care - and to grow with the practice as it grows.

Clinical care will focus on dogs and cats. We are not treating horses, livestock, exotics, or other small animals at this stage.

What you'll do

You will deliver day-to-day care, and support the expansion of our clinical guidelines as our service grows.

- Consult with pet parents. Messaging-based consultations, asynchronous and real-time (chat) as required: assess the case, set a treatment plan, and prescribe within your provincial scope of practice.
- Deliver guideline-driven care. Follow our clinical guidelines, refine them for the cases they do not yet address, and review new guidelines as we expand our services.
- Call the edge cases. Apply your judgment to what telemedicine can and cannot serve safely. Decline the cases that are not eligible, and tell pet parents clearly and kindly why - and where to go instead.
- Veterinary SME. Bring a veterinary lens to occasional business and operations problems - ad hoc support that makes the team's work sharper than it would be without you.

Who we're looking for

Required

- Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) with an active license in good standing with the College of Veterinarians of Ontario (CVO).




- Actively practising through a CVO-accredited veterinary facility, which you maintain throughout the engagement.
- Minimum 3 years post-DVM in companion animal practice (general or referral). We are not the right first employer for a new graduate.
- Direct experience in veterinary telemedicine - another platform, a clinic's virtual-care service, or remote consulting.
- You are comfortable as the senior clinical voice on a case. When you do not have the answer, you know where to look and who to call.
- Tech-savvy. You will use new web tools every week. You will tell us when they are wrong rather than working around them quietly.
- Reshape your practice to telemedicine. You do not try to replicate the in-person exam on a screen - you actively find what can be done well and safely in this format, and you say so plainly when a case needs an in-person visit instead.

The temperament we are looking for

- High integrity. Ethical and committed to the patient's best interests. The platform's reputation will be set, one case at a time, by your clinical judgment, and you hold the line on declining a treatment an owner is pushing for.
- Driven and passionate about veterinary medicine and technology, with a desire to change the status quo.
- Team player. We built this platform for the clinicians who work in it.



When you find a way to make your care faster or easier - a confusing form, a step that slows the case down - you propose it. You do not wait to be asked.
- Comfortable with ambiguity. We are a growing practice, and change is the norm. You will be the first to use a new tool, and the first to treat a recent condition virtually - you roll with it.

Nice to have

- Licensure in a second province (BC, AB, MB) or willingness to add one.
- Experience with companion animals other than dogs and cats.
- Past locum or relief work.
- Any prior product, technology, or startup exposure - even informally.

What we offer

- Flexible hours, set by you. Pick the hours that work for your life - overlapping with business hours, on a schedule you can change with a few days' notice. We expect your availability to shift; we just need to know.
- A gradual ramp. Start with a few hours a week and scale up as the practice scales - or stay light, if light is what you want.
- Designed to fit around what you already do. Keep your clinic role, your locum shifts, whatever else you have going. This role is meant to complement an existing career, not replace one.
- Competitive per-review compensation calibrated against locum hourly rates in Ontario.
- Fully remote.
- No on-call. No after-hours. No emergencies. No clients in your waiting room.



References

1. PetSmart Charities of Canada-Gallup, State of Pet Care Study (pet-owner survey), June 11 2025.
2. Jones-Bitton A, Gillis D, Peterson M, McKee H. "Latent burnout profiles of veterinarians in Canada: Findings from a cross-sectional study." Veterinary Record, 2023.

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