Overview
This Senior Counsel role supports the organization on matters relating to AI, product development, and legal technology. The position serves as a senior legal advisor across AI and emerging regulatory requirements, internal policy development, and strategic contracting.
Responsibilities
- Act as the go-to legal advisor for issues relating to AI, product development, and marketing.
- Monitor, interpret, and communicate developments in AI law and regulation (domestic and international), as well as industry trends, translating complexity into actionable guidance.
- Develop internal policies, frameworks, agreement terms, and best practices that enable the business to move quickly and comply with applicable and emerging laws.
- Advise on and help build industry relationships; 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 on product development, feature launches, and go-to-market strategies, recommending practical and defensible approaches.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering/Applied Science, Product, Partner, Customer Success, Strategy, Procurement, and other stakeholders to manage legal risk and support strategic initiatives.
- Support the Partner team on 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.
- Serve as a senior, visible 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, identifying issues and solving for them.
- Engage with customers to ensure the organization delivers and listens effectively.
- Work directly with Product, Marketing, Customer Success, Partner, and Strategy teams.
- Suggest and implement process improvements (e.g., standard approaches to beta testing; variations in product documentation and contract language to enhance efficiency and align to business and product requirements).
- Use AI legal technology tools effectively; identify which tools work for which purposes and remain flexible about testing new tools.
Required Skills & Tools
- Skilled knowledge working with AI tools (including legal technology tools)
- Microsoft O365
- Salesforce
- Ironclad
Qualifications
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.
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 and 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.
- Ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-lawyers without oversimplifying.
- Proactive, solutions-oriented mindset—identify risk and propose a path forward.
- 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.
- Ability to research and analyze legal issues.
- Solid proficiency with AI tools, legal technology tools, MS Office and legal research platforms and tools, with familiarity with Salesforce, Ironclad and Asana.
Compensation & Benefits
This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and 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.
Location
Remote/Hybrid