Head of Legal

The role

You will be the first in-house attorney at Interface.ai. You will partner with the CEO and leadership to shape legal strategy, streamline deal cycles, and ensure regulatory readiness in the U.S. and India.

What you will do

• Negotiate customer, vendor, reseller and data-processing agreements.
• Advise People Ops on hiring, terminations, equity grants and multi-state compliance.
• Build and run privacy / AI compliance program (GDPR, CCPA, FTC).
• Prepare board consents, maintain cap-table and support financings.
• Manage outside counsel on IP, litigation and insurance claims.

Required qualifications

• JD or LL.B.
• Active bar in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 8–15 years combined law-firm and in-house experience with a proven record as a ‘department of one’.
• Deep expertise in SaaS commercial contracts, employment law, data privacy (GDPR/CCPA) and corporate governance.
• Hands-on experience managing outside counsel and cross-border issues.
• Business-first communicator who can translate legal complexity into clear, actionable guidance.
• Comfort leveraging generative-AI tools and prompt engineering to scale legal processes.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage prompt engineering and generative-AI tools to accelerate legal workflows and reduce turnaround time.

Nice to have

• Cross-border issues (U.S./India preferred)

Benefits

• 100% paid health, dental & vision care
• 401(k) & financial wellness perks
• Daily meals on us
• Commuter benefit
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Claude Enterprise + frontier AI tools for every employee
• Brand-new 21st-floor SF office at 44 Montgomery
• Discretionary PTO
• Paid parental leave
• Mental health, wellness & family benefits
• Founding-team-tier equity
• Top-of-market base

About the company

interface.ai is redefining how financial institutions serve their members through agentic AI and conversational AI. The company has $30M in Series A funding and is cash-flow positive.