Counsel/Senior Counsel, Litigation

What you’ll do

• Manage litigation, third-party process, dispute resolution, and regulatory requests involving the company, spanning everything from helping Runway to develop its strategy on cutting-edge legal questions, to owning all in-house-side discovery execution
• Building, improving, documenting, and executing repeatable processes relating to the above areas
• Manage outside counsel
• Field frequent, day-to-day requests from other legal team members requesting your perspective in their commercial, product, and other legal work based on your litigation expertise and experience
• Monitor key regulatory and policy landscape updates relating to generative AI, including advising our AI safety, product, and engineering teams on those developments as appropriate
• Develop and execute Runway’s IP enforcement strategy
• Dive into the technical aspects of the product and industry to learn it inside and out, to inform your advice to the business
• Support the team in a number of other legal domains, potentially including, but not limited to: employment, trust & safety, policy, commercial, privacy, IP, and/or others

What you’ll need

• A J.D. and admission in good standing with at least one state bar
• Strong business acumen
• 5+ years of dedicated litigation experience (can include clerkships)
• A working knowledge of the key legal issues in Runway’s industry
• Excitement about generative AI and motivation to become a leading expert in the legal landscape governing a rapidly innovating industry, and how it should evolve
• A strong sense of ownership, whether, on the one hand, working on the highest-level strategic work at the company (think: navigating bleeding-edge legal questions), or, on the other hand, direct execution of work often handled by support staff at larger companies (think: drafting, issuing, and tracking litigation holds, tightly running a document collection process across multiple custodians and systems)
• Creative problem-solving, including the capacity to think big and be curious
• Bias towards action