Assistant General Counsel, Product
Provides legal counsel to teams developing AI and machine-learning products for healthcare, addressing model risk, IP, data rights, liability, privacy, and emerging regulation. Requires 12+ years of legal experience, including substantial AI or emerging-technology counseling and prior in-house experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Advise teams building AI and machine-learning models and products on model development, agentic workflows, multimodal outputs, and downstream clinical use.
- Identify and mitigate AI-specific legal risks involving model behavior, output accuracy, intellectual property, data provenance, training rights, and liability for AI-generated content.
- Develop scalable legal processes, frameworks, and contract language for frontier AI development.
- Advise on emerging AI regulation and represent the company with external counsel, regulators, and industry groups as needed.
- Support privacy impact assessments, model risk assessments, and AI data-governance frameworks.
- Partner with legal, product, and compliance stakeholders on transparency, accountability, and human oversight.
Requirements
- 12+ years of legal experience, including 6+ years counseling on AI, machine learning, or emerging-technology products.
- Prior in-house experience.
- Knowledge of AI legal issues, including IP and copyright in AI-generated content, training-data rights, model liability, and responsible-AI principles.
- Ability to translate complex regulatory and technical concepts into practical guidance for technical and non-legal audiences.
- Ability to operate with ambiguity, tight timelines, and high volumes of novel legal questions.
- Strong ownership, intellectual curiosity, judgment, and creativity.
Nice-to-haves
- In-house experience at a growth-stage AI or healthcare-technology company.
- Understanding of federal and state healthcare laws, including HIPAA and data-privacy regulations, as applied to AI systems.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range of $210,000–$315,000, plus equity grants for full-time employees.
- Flexible PTO, paid holidays, and accrued time off for hourly employees.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees and their families.
- HSA contributions, paid parental leave, family-forming benefits, and 401(k) matching.
- Personal device allowance, FSA and commuter benefits, lifestyle wallet, mental-health support, and sabbatical leave after five years.
Skills
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Ai Regulation, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Training Data, Data Provenance, Model Liability, Responsible Ai, HIPAA, Data Privacy, Data Governance, Privacy Impact Assessments, Model Risk Assessments
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