Senior Product Counsel - Data Products, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
Senior product counsel advising AI and machine-learning product teams on model development, data rights, liability, privacy, healthcare regulation, and responsible AI. Requires 8+ years of legal experience, including substantial AI or emerging-technology counseling and prior in-house experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Advise teams building core AI and machine learning models and products, including 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 company positions with external counsel, regulators, and industry groups.
- Support privacy impact assessments, model risk assessments, and AI data-governance frameworks.
- Partner with legal, product, and compliance teams on transparency, accountability, and human oversight.
Requirements
- 8+ years of legal experience, including 4+ years counseling on AI, machine learning, or emerging technology products.
- Prior in-house experience required.
- Experience creating processes, contract language, and frameworks for novel legal matters.
- Working 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 AI concepts into practical guidance for technical and non-legal audiences.
- Comfort operating with ambiguity, tight timelines, and high volumes of novel legal questions.
- Strong ownership, intellectual curiosity, and judgment.
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 $188,000-$255,000, plus equity grants for full-time employees.
- 14 paid holidays, flexible PTO, and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 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 paid sabbatical leave after five years.
Skills
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Ai Regulation, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Training Data, Data Provenance, Data Governance, Privacy Impact Assessments, Model Risk Assessments, HIPAA, Data Privacy, Responsible Ai, Contract Drafting
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