Overview
This role is a senior legal advisory position supporting AI, product development, and legal technology matters. The Senior Counsel, AI & Legal Technology reports directly to the General Counsel and serves as a go-to advisor across legal, compliance, and product strategy.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a primary legal advisor for issues related to AI, product development, and marketing.
- Monitor, interpret, and communicate developments in AI law and regulation (domestic and international), along with industry trends; translate complexity into actionable guidance.
- Develop internal policies, frameworks, agreement terms, and best practices that help the business move quickly while staying compliant with applicable and emerging laws.
- Advise on and negotiate terms with independent software vendors, open source providers, strategic partners, and go-to-market collaborations.
- Review and advise on AI-specific terms in customer and vendor agreements and customer-facing materials.
- Advise product development, feature launches, and go-to-market strategies with practical and defensible legal approaches.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering/Applied Science, Product, Partner, Customer Success, Strategy, Procurement, and other stakeholders to manage legal risk, develop scalable processes, and support strategic initiatives.
- Support the Partner team on collaboration agreements, co-marketing arrangements, and alliance structures with legal technology partners and AI vendors.
- Assist stakeholders with legal review of marketing activities, joint initiatives, and external-facing technology collaborations.
- Serve as the lead legal representative for enterprise AI, product development, marketing, and legal technology.
- Provide creative, strategic legal advice and business counsel on commercial, operational, and strategic legal issues; identify issues and propose solutions.
- Engage with customers to ensure their needs are understood and delivered against.
- Work closely with Product, Marketing, Customer Success, Partner, and Strategy teams.
- Suggest and support improvements in processes (e.g., standard approaches to beta testing; variations in product documentation and contract language to improve efficiency and align to business and product requirements).
- Use AI legal technology tools effectively to improve efficiency, including evaluating which tools work for specific purposes and being open to new tools.
- Apply skilled knowledge working with AI tools (including legal technology tools), Microsoft O365, Salesforce, and Ironclad.
Preferred Qualifications
- Six (6) or more years of relevant experience in-house and/or at a law firm supporting technology initiatives, which might include experience with intellectual property, M&A, technology transactions, privacy, and data; meaningful exposure to AI, data, and technology legal issues.
- Experience with software development and open source licensing issues, including OSI-approved license compliance, OEM licensing; familiarity with developer and marketplace agreements (including API terms, SaaS agreements, and platform policies).
- Background in marketing law, including knowledge of FTC and applicable state laws.
- Strong understanding of technology, including legal technology, cloud services, software licensing models, open source, information security, privacy, intellectual property, and regulatory considerations.
- Experience supporting AI-enabled products, legal technology, and emerging technology issues.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-lawyers without oversimplifying.
- Intelligence, flexibility, creativity, diligence, resourcefulness, responsiveness, and strong communications skills.
- Proactive, solutions-oriented mindset—identify risk and propose a path forward rather than stopping progress.
- Required: Deep, demonstrable knowledge of the AI regulatory landscape, including emerging U.S. and international frameworks (EU AI Act, EU omnibus, state-level AI bills, FTC guidance, etc.).
- Desirable but not required: Basic knowledge of intellectual property and proprietary rights issues including data, trade secrets and trademarks.
- Desirable but not required: Experience advising product and marketing teams in a fast-paced technology or legal technology company.
- JD degree from an accredited law school and license to practice in the United States.
- Ability to research and analyze legal issues.
- Solid proficiency with AI tools, legal technology tools, MS Office and legal research platforms and tools; familiarity with Salesforce, Ironclad and Asana.
Minimum Qualifications
- Juris Doctor from an accredited law school.
- Active bar membership in good standing.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Intelligence, flexibility, creativity, diligence, responsiveness, and strong communications skills.
- Strong exposure to computer and software technology concepts.
- Solid proficiency with MS Office, Salesforce, and Contract Management Software.
Compensation & Benefits
This position is eligible for total compensation, including:
- Competitive base salary
- Annual performance bonus
- Long-term incentives
Expected salary range: $183,000 to $275,000
Final offered salary will be based on factors including depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical to allow for future meaningful salary growth.
Location
Remote/Hybrid