Senior Counsel, AI Ecosystem team

Overview

This role supports the AI Ecosystem team, reporting to the Director of Legal for Artificial Intelligence. Responsibilities include providing legal counsel to senior leaders and management teams responsible for the conception, development, and operation of direct-to-customer AI Ecosystem products.

The team is a cross-functional business and technology organization responsible for developing, integrating, and commercializing Lenovo’s AI experiences, platforms, agents, applications, and ecosystem partnerships across devices and services.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance to business partners on business models, legal and business risks, and solution-oriented approaches to complex legal-business-technical problems.
• Coordinate closely with the Global AI Legal Team and the Responsible AI Program Group to help prioritize business unit issues and serve as a primary translation layer between the business unit and the global AI legal team.
• Partner with legal and business leadership to deliver practical, risk-balanced legal solutions in a rapidly evolving global AI product ecosystem.
• Provide strategic advice regarding legal risks in an increasingly fragmented geopolitical technology environment.
• Negotiate a high volume of complex technology, service, development, and ecosystem partnership agreements, including:
  • confidentiality agreements
  • license agreements
  • data processing agreements
  • professional services agreements
  • assignments and amendments
• Develop and implement legal efficiencies to support business teams and improve contract processes and operations.
• Improve and create contract templates and playbooks.
• Work with business stakeholders and the legal team on strategic initiatives supporting all business units.
• Provide proactive advice on business and legal issues and risks.
• Collaborate with internal and external counsel, technology experts, marketing and sales teams, product developers, and as needed with suppliers and customers.

Requirements

• JD or LLM and admission to practice.
• 12+ years of counseling, drafting, and negotiation experience in a fast-paced environment, preferably focused on technology and/or technology transactions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated effective interpersonal interaction, including with senior managers in a highly customer-satisfaction focused environment.
• Experience with in-bound and out-bound business models, contract structures, and related practices and terms for AI technology, products, and services.
• Strong critical thinking and proactive problem-solving skills, with willingness to work through complex details and drive creative solutions.
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Detail-oriented with outstanding organizational skills; ability to manage multiple transactions and projects simultaneously under deadline pressure.
• Demonstrated exceptional judgment, integrity, and ability to provide practical advice that appropriately weighs legal and business objectives.
• Strong team player who can collaborate across functional groups.
• Commitment to personal growth and development through active feedback and constructive action.
• Experience with AI products, SaaS and hybrid on device software products, and related product and service areas is highly desirable.

Compensation & Benefits

No compensation or benefits details provided.

Location

• US, Remote

Equal Opportunity Employer

The organization is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, or basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.