Director / Senior Director, AI Product Counsel

The role

You will lead legal work to build and ship AI products and platforms. This includes advising on AI training, data products, and commercial deals.

What you will do

• Embed with product, research, engineering, operations and go-to-market teams as a legal partner.
• Advise on legal questions raised by new AI training and eval data products and modalities.
• Support work with frontier labs and enterprise customers.
• Partner with commercial counsel to structure novel deals and build scalable commercial programs.
• Advise on the Handshake AI platform contractor experience end to end.
• Build scalable product counseling and AI governance.

Required qualifications

• JD and membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
• 8+ years of legal experience, with significant in-house experience supporting product, platform, or emerging technology teams.
• Deep familiarity with privacy and intellectual property law, and with the laws governing AI and platform products.
• Track record of leading and scaling product counseling and legal review programs in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Experience working alongside commercial counsel on complex, novel commercial relationships.
• Strong technical fluency and curiosity.
• Sound judgment under ambiguity.
• Exceptional communication skills and business judgment.
• Passion for Handshake’s mission to democratize access to opportunity and a deep interest in AI.

Nice to have

• Prior experience supporting AI, ML, or data products, or working with AI labs or other frontier AI companies
• Experience with data licensing and data provenance issues
• Experience with regulated data, such as health or biometric data
• Familiarity with AI risk management frameworks, bias audit practices, or AI safety and transparency issues
• Experience working in marketplace or gig platforms

Benefits

• Equity in a fast-growing company
• 401(k) match
• competitive compensation
• financial coaching
• Paid parental leave
• fertility benefits
• parental coaching
• Medical, dental, and vision
• mental health support
• $500 wellness stipend
• $2,000 learning stipend
• ongoing development

About the company

Handshake powers 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions. Handshake AI works with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data.