Associate General Counsel - AI Product & Privacy

The role

This person will counsel product and engineering teams on privacy, intellectual property, and consumer protection. They will lead the global privacy program and advise on AI governance and responsible development. They will also support commercial transactions and optimize legal processes through technology.

What you will do

• Counsel Product & Engineering on privacy regulation, intellectual property, enterprise use cases, and consumer protection.
• Own Arena's global privacy program including GDPR and CCPA/CPRA compliance.
• Advise on the responsible development of AI products and emerging regulations.
• Support commercial transactions and design frameworks governing data flows.
• Negotiate privacy provisions and agreements with customers, partners, and vendors.
• Build and scale privacy and product legal processes.
• Build agents and internal software to support operations.
• Procure legal tech tools to integrate software.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of legal experience in privacy and product counseling at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house legal department.
• JD.
• Active membership in at least one U.S. state bar in good standing.
• Proven track record of independently building and running a global privacy program.
• Deep, hands-on familiarity with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and cross-border data transfer mechanisms.
• Demonstrated ability to advise product and engineering teams in real time.
• Ability to think strategically at a high level and from deep in the details.
• Ability to calibrate risk and communicate it to executive, product, and technical audiences.
• Roll-up-your-sleeves attitude with a low-ego, collaborative approach.
• Ability to think quickly in a fast-paced environment with excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Deep interest in artificial intelligence, generative AI, and machine learning technology.
• Ability to build and iterate on your own tools and a creative problem solving approach to building human-in-the-loop workflows.

Nice to have

• California bar membership preferred.
• Experience counseling on consumer products.
• Experience advising on consumer products or multi-sided marketplaces and building global privacy programs focused on controller responsibility.
• Experience advising on de-identification and anonymization data pipelines.
• Experience working with tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Replit, Loveable, and/or Retool.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation aligned to the markets where team members are based.
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, and vision.
• Additional support programs.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI with a small, mission-driven team.
• A culture that values transparency, trust, and community impact.

About the company

Arena is the platform for evaluating how AI models perform in the real world. Founded by researchers from UC Berkeley's SkyLab, the company builds the foundation for understanding, shaping, and benefiting from AI.