Senior AI Product & Partnerships Counsel

The role

You will serve as a strategic partner to product, engineering, partnerships, sales, marketing, and the Executive Team. You will provide legal advice for product development and accelerate product and data partnerships.

What you will do

• Provide pragmatic, product-motivated advice for product legal matters from design to launch
• Build playbooks and streamline legal review of partnership deals
• Close deals with strategic partners and customers including B2B SaaS contracts, DPAs, and order forms
• Learn technical aspects of generative AI products to inform business advice
• Follow and shape technical, legal, and policy developments in AI
• Implement practices to scale legal team impact through enablement and AI-enabled automation

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience, including in-house experience at a fast-paced technology company
• Experience advising product development leaders and executives on IP and privacy
• Experience closing partnership and go-to-market deals
• Experience providing practical recommendations to senior leaders
• Sound judgment in ambiguity
• Deep sense of ownership
• Bias for action
• Demonstrated interest in AI, creative tools or both
• J.D.
• Admission in good standing with at least one state bar

Nice to have

• Generative AI models and agentic workflow understanding and interest
• Experience closing strategic, IP-heavy partnerships
• Experience in B2C and B2B industries and in product-led and enterprise businesses
• Experience closing B2B SaaS customer deals
• Big Law and/or hypergrowth tech startup experience

About the company

Runway is building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. They believe world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence.