Overview
This role supports the organization as Senior Counsel, AI & Legal Technology, serving as a senior legal advisor on matters relating to AI, product development, and legal technology. The position reports to the General Counsel and involves advising across enterprise AI, product, marketing, and legal technology initiatives.
Posting type: Remote/Hybrid
Responsibilities
- Serve as the go-to legal advisor for issues related to AI, product development, and marketing.
- Monitor, interpret, and communicate developments in AI law and regulation (domestic and international) and industry trends; translate complexity into actionable guidance.
- Develop internal policies, frameworks, agreement terms, and best practices that enable business execution in compliance with applicable and emerging laws.
- Advise on and negotiate terms with independent software vendors, open source providers, strategic partners, and go-to-market collaborators.
- Review and advise on AI-specific terms in customer and vendor agreements and customer-facing materials.
- Advise on product development, feature launches, and go-to-market strategies, recommending practical and defensible approaches.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering/Applied Science, Product, Partners, Customer Success, Strategy, Procurement, and other stakeholders to manage legal risk and support strategic initiatives.
- Support partner collaboration agreements, co-marketing arrangements, and alliance structures with legal technology partners and AI vendors.
- Support stakeholders with legal review of marketing activities, joint initiatives, and external-facing technology collaborations.
- Act as a senior, visible legal voice shaping company strategy across 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 solve for them.
- Engage with customers to ensure they feel listened to and deliver on commitments.
- Work closely with Product, Marketing, Customer Success, Partner, and Strategy teams—not just other lawyers.
- Suggest and help implement process improvements (e.g., standard approaches to beta testing and variations in product documentation and contract language) to enhance efficiency and align to business and product requirements.
- Use and evaluate AI legal technology tools to improve efficiency; identify which tools work for which purposes and stay flexible in trying new tools.
- Demonstrate 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, potentially including 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; ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-lawyers without oversimplifying.
- Intellectual horsepower and soft skills: intelligence, flexibility, creativity, diligence, resourcefulness, responsiveness, and strong communications skills.
- Proactive, solutions-oriented mindset.
- 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 a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.
Expected salary range: $183,000 to $275,000.
The final offered salary will be based on factors including candidate 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 in this position.