Senior Counsel, Commercial and Data

The role

This person will handle commercial contracts and data privacy matters. They will work directly with the CLO to draft, negotiate, and close agreements while counseling teams on HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and AI regulation.

What you will do

• Draft, negotiate, and close commercial agreements including data licensing, SOWs, NDAs, BAAs, and DPAs.
• Counsel teams on data privacy including HIPAA, de-identification, consent, provenance, GDPR/CCPA, and AI regulation.
• Triage and run a high-volume legal queue.
• Work with technical teams and counterparties to translate legal risk.
• Manage and coordinate outside counsel.
• Build legal infrastructure including templates, playbooks, and AI-assisted workflows.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant legal experience with significant depth in technology transactions and privacy.
• Speed and throughput.
• Genuine comfort with ambiguity.
• Fluency with modern tools including Slack, Notion, Google Drive, and AI systems.
• High EQ.
• JD and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.

Nice to have

• In-house experience at a technology company shipping products with novel legal risk, ideally involving AI, training data, or health data.
• Experience negotiating data licensing agreements or other data-centric commercial deals.
• Familiarity with de-identification standards (Expert Determination, Safe Harbor) and the healthcare data ecosystem.
• Experience being an early or solo in-house lawyer.

About the company

Protege is building a platform to facilitate the secure, efficient, and privacy-centric exchange of AI training data. The company is a lean, fast-moving team of builders backed by world-class investors.