Senior Counsel

Who you are

• 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, ideally cloud, infrastructure, semiconductors, SaaS, or AI
• 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), ideally including building or scaling a compliance program
• 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, with sound instincts for what to own, what to escalate, and when to bring in specialized outside counsel
• Desire for learning and building with AI tools so you can operate self-sufficiently and at speed
• 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)

What the job involves

• Together AI is looking for a Senior Counsel to help build the legal and compliance foundation behind our AI infrastructure and the products our customers depend on
• You’ll work alongside Product, Engineering, Research, Security, Infrastructure, and Sales as the legal partner who helps each team move quickly while keeping risk in view
• This role suits a lawyer who wants to build programs in product, privacy, export controls, and patent and licensing strategy, and who is curious enough about inference, fine-tuning, and GPU infrastructure to give advice grounded in how the technology works
• Partner with Product and Engineering early in the lifecycle to shape new inference, fine-tuning, GPU cluster, and platform offerings with legal considerations built in
• Draft and maintain customer-facing product terms
• Advise on legal issues unique to AI infrastructure: model hosting and third-party model licenses, data use and ownership, and shared responsibility between platform and customer
• Build playbooks, templates, and self-serve tools that let the business move fast without legal becoming a bottleneck
• Advise on open-source and model licensing (open-weight models, permissive and restrictive licenses, community licenses)
• Help build and run our patent program: invention disclosure processes, working with Research and Engineering on patentable innovations, managing outside patent counsel, and aligning filing strategy with business priorities
• Own and evolve our global privacy program across GDPR/UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA and other US state laws, and emerging regimes in APAC and elsewhere
• Lead privacy-by-design reviews for new products and features, including those involving model inputs, outputs, logging, and retention
• Manage DPAs, subprocessor processes, cross-border data transfer mechanisms, and DPIAs
• Track developments in privacy and AI regulation, including the EU AI Act, and translate them into practical guidance for the business
• Build and operate an export controls and sanctions compliance program suited to a company handling advanced compute and AI technologies
• Advise on EAR, OFAC, and related regimes as they apply to GPU access, cloud services, model weights, and customer onboarding, including restricted-party screening, geographic and end-use restrictions, and license determinations
• Develop policies, training, controls, and monitoring in partnership with Finance, Security, Sales, and Infrastructure teams

Benefits

• Competitive health insurance plans
• Dental and vision insurance
• Pre-tax flexible spending accounts
• Mental health support and services
• Income protection & retirement
• 401(k) plan
• AD&D insurance
• Life insurance
• STD & LTD insurance
• Monthly team lunches
• Flexible time off policy
• Team-driven celebrations and events
• Monthly commuting stipend + pre-tax bene