Head of Legal

The role

You will build and lead the legal function as the first legal hire. You will work with founders and across engineering, product, and go-to-market teams to launch products and manage risk.

What you will do

• Lead customer and partner negotiations including enterprise agreements, API distribution, reseller arrangements, data processing agreements, and vendor contracts.
• Build templates and negotiation playbooks.
• Work with technical teams on product design, data use, retention, international processing, and security commitments.
• Identify laws, regulatory developments, and industry practices affecting products and business.
• Establish contract intake, approval, signing, and management processes.
• Build guidance and tools for teams to handle routine matters independently.
• Own employment, corporate, governance, and intellectual property matters.
• Choose and manage outside counsel, priorities, and budgets.
• Build trust across the company and offer clear recommendations.

Required qualifications

• At least 10 - 15 years of relevant legal experience.
• Meaningful in-house experience at a growing technology company.
• Strong legal training.
• Substantial commercial contracting experience.
• Can counsel independently on product and privacy matters.
• Have helped a company scale its legal operations.
• Admitted to practice in a U.S. jurisdiction.
• Eligible to practice as in-house counsel in California.

Nice to have

• Experience at a leading law firm

Benefits

• 100% covered health insurance
• Daily lunch and dinner
• Visa sponsorship
• 401(k) plans

About the company

TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation. The team is from OpenAI, Google Brain, and Meta/FAIR.