Senior Counsel - Product & Privacy

The role

This person will build the legal and compliance foundation for AI infrastructure and products. They will partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Security, Infrastructure, and Sales teams to manage product, privacy, export controls, and patent and licensing strategy.

What you will do

• Partner with Product and Engineering to shape inference, fine-tuning, GPU cluster, and platform offerings.
• Draft and maintain customer-facing product terms.
• Advise on AI infrastructure issues including model hosting, third-party licenses, data use, and shared responsibility.
• Build playbooks, templates, and self-serve tools.
• Advise on open-source and model licensing.
• Help build and run the patent program.
• Own and evolve the global privacy program.
• Lead privacy-by-design reviews for new products and features.
• Manage DPAs, subprocessor processes, cross-border data transfer mechanisms, and DPIAs.
• Build and operate an export controls and sanctions compliance program.

Required qualifications

• A JD and an active bar license in good standing
• 7+ years of experience at a top law firm and/or in-house at a technology company
• Demonstrated experience advising product and engineering teams and drafting product terms
• Hands-on experience with global privacy law and running or substantially contributing to a privacy program
• Working knowledge of export controls (EAR/OFAC)
• Experience with technology and IP licensing, including open-source licenses
• Strong judgment, a pragmatic risk-based approach, and the ability to give clear, business-oriented advice
• A plain-spoken style that makes legal and technical points accessible to non-lawyers
• Comfort working independently in a small, fast-moving legal team
• Desire for learning and building with AI tools

Nice to have

• Experience at a high-growth startup or scaling a legal function from early stage
• Familiarity with AI/ML legal issues, such as model licensing, training data, AI regulation, and responsible use
• Technical fluency, with comfort discussing GPUs, inference systems, APIs, and cloud architecture
• Privacy certifications (CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM)

Benefits

• startup equity
• health insurance
• other competitive benefits

Before you apply

• Candidates are limited to 6 applications within a 90-day period.

About the company

Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company. They aim to lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models.