Legal Counsel

The role

The Legal Counsel will serve as a primary legal advisor to founders and leaders across various departments. This role involves drafting commercial agreements, providing product counseling on AI/ML offerings, advising on employment matters, and tracking AI regulatory landscapes.

What you will do

• Serve as a primary legal advisor to the business, partnering with founders and leaders
• Support financing rounds
• Draft, negotiate, and close a high volume of commercial agreements
• Build templates and playbooks for scaling
• Provide product counseling on AI/ML offerings from design through launch
• Advise on employment matters across the employee lifecycle
• Track and interpret the AI regulatory landscape
• Manage outside counsel
• Build the legal function including processes and AI tooling

Required qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school
• Active membership in the California bar or eligibility to register as in-house counsel in California
• 6+ years of combined experience at a top law firm and in-house at a high-growth technology company
• Significant ownership of product, commercial, corporate or other legal subject matter expertise
• First-principles thinker
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills
• Discretion and sound judgment handling sensitive matters and information
• Fluency in modern software and AI tooling
• Clear communicator in writing and in person
• Able to work full-time on-site in Palo Alto
• Have plenty of fuel to run at a fast-paced start-up

Nice to have

• Privacy or regulatory expertise: CIPP/US and EU certifications or experience negotiating directly with regulators around the world
• Engineering or science background
• Experience with healthcare and financial verticals
• Familiarity with equity management platforms (e.g. Carta)
• Experience with financing rounds

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• unlimited PTO

About the company

River AI is an AI lab building the full stack required for people and organizations to create AI models of their own. The team consists of scientists, engineers, and builders from leading technology companies and AI labs.