# Counsel/Senior Counsel, Litigation

**Company:** [Runway](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/runway)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** $225k – $275k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Litigation Management, Dispute Resolution, Regulatory Compliance, Ip Enforcement, Outside Counsel Management, Generative Ai Law, Document Discovery, Litigation Holds, Commercial Law, Privacy Law
**Posted:** 2026-04-15

> Manages day-to-day litigation, dispute resolution, regulatory requests, and IP enforcement for an AI company. Partners with General Counsel on strategy, advises cross-functional teams on generative AI legal issues, and supports other legal domains. Requires JD, 5+ years litigation experience, and business acumen.

## Job Description

## 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

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