Legal Director, Products & Partnerships - 11858

Overview

This role involves serving as a proactive and entrepreneurial Senior Counsel, Product and Partnerships to support global AI products. The position focuses on enabling growth and mitigating risk for a technology platform in the AI transformation space. The counsel will work across fast-moving global regulatory requirements and spearhead legal initiatives.

The role reports into VP, Legal and partners closely with product managers, engineers, and the legal team.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic legal guidance that balances legal expertise with creative problem-solving, delivering risk-calibrated advice to business leaders and enabling decisions quickly.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, and Technology from early development through launch and beyond, providing practical legal and compliance guidance across the full product lifecycle.
• Act as an embedded advisor to product teams by proactively identifying legal, regulatory, privacy, and security risks and developing pragmatic solutions.
• Develop a deep understanding of the organization’s software, hardware, AI, and data products to serve as a trusted advisor across the organization.
• Review product features, marketing materials, customer-facing communications, and other external content to identify legal and regulatory risks before publication.
• Enhance the compliance program, including privacy, AI governance, and related regulatory initiatives, while developing scalable policies, training, and resources.
• Draft and negotiate product partnership agreements.
• Draft terms of use and agreements and negotiate those with third parties, as necessary.
• Translate complex legal and regulatory issues into clear, practical, business-oriented advice to support fast, confident decision-making.
• Collaborate within the Legal department (especially Regulatory and Commercial Counsel) on cross-team deals.
• Build legal materials such as playbooks, FAQs, standard positions, and templates to help business and legal teams move quickly with clear guardrails.
• Be available to work on EST time zone.

Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant legal experience, ideally including meaningful commercial and/or product counseling, in-house experience at a high-growth B2B technology.
• Licensed to practice law in your state/province.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of the global regulatory environment, ideally with experience applying the EU AI Act and EU Data Act.
• Experience negotiating commercial agreements.
• Proven ability to partner with technical teams to navigate novel issues at the intersection of software, hardware, and climate technology.
• Technical understanding of AI technology and attendant legal risks; familiarity with basic product concepts (cloud infrastructure, APIs, open source) and ability to quickly understand new innovations.
• Strong judgment and creativity around risk assessment and mitigation.

Compensation & Benefits

• Comprehensive suite of benefits designed to support physical, mental, and community well-being.

Global Well-Being Perks (For All Employees Globally)

• Global Wellness Days: two designated, company-wide paid wellness days off each year (typically the first Friday in March and the last Friday in September).
• Birthday Time-Off: a paid day off on your birthday or another day within your birthday month.
• Volunteer Time Off (VTO): 40 hours of paid VTO annually.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): free, confidential, 24/7/365 counseling and resources (emotional support, work-life solutions, financial advice, legal guidance, and support for new parents).
• Business Travel Protection: Zurich Travel Assist provides medical, safety, pre-trip planning, and emergency support during business travel.
• Referral Bonus Program: monetary referral bonuses when referrals are successfully hired into open roles.

Additional note: location-specific benefits packages are described as comprehensive medical/dental insurance, retirement/pension plans, and life or accident protection tailored to the primary work location. The recruiter provides details during the interview process.

Location

• Must be available to work on EST time zone.

Additional Information

• Please be advised that inquiries or resumes from recruiters will not be accepted.