Counsel – Artificial Intelligence & Innovation Governance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee and evaluate new federal, state, and international laws, regulations, regulatory guidance, and enforcement developments related to AI, machine learning, automated decision-making, and emerging technologies.

• Analyze new and proposed legal requirements for AI and provide practical guidance on their implications for The Cigna Group’s businesses, operations, and AI governance framework.

• Keep regulatory inventories, legal summaries, guidance, and other resources up-to-date to support the evolving AI requirements.

• Perform legal assessments of proposed AI and machine-learning applications and provide advice on associated legal and regulatory risks.

• Engage in enterprise AI governance processes and work collaboratively with Enterprise Model Governance and other stakeholders throughout the AI lifecycle.

• Review, draft, and negotiate provisions related to AI and intellectual property in technology, vendor, data, licensing, and commercial agreements.

• Create and uphold standard contractual provisions, negotiation guidance, playbooks, and related resources for AI and intellectual property.

• Provide advice on how AI requirements intersect with privacy and data protection laws.

• Assist intellectual property counsel with employee IP obligations, outside activity requests, ownership, licensing, protection, and commercialization issues.

• Support enterprise IP initiatives and address IP risks associated with AI and emerging technologies.

• Enhance AI use-case review and IP legal-support processes and workflows, including intake, triage, documentation, escalation, and tracking.

• Convert evolving legal requirements into actionable policies, standards, controls, and business guidance.

• Support enterprise policies, standards, training, and governance frameworks for responsible AI and emerging technologies.

• Deliver practical, business-focused legal advice to promote responsible innovation while managing legal and regulatory risks.

• Collaborate with attorneys and professionals across Privacy & Innovation Governance, Enterprise Model Governance, Compliance, Information Security, Technology, Procurement, and the business.

⛳️ Requirements

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school.

• Active license and good standing to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.

• 3+ years of relevant legal experience in a law firm, corporate legal department, government agency, or a combination of these environments.

• Experience with technology, privacy, data, commercial contracting, artificial intelligence, or related legal fields.

• Strong legal research and analytical capabilities.

• Experience in reviewing and negotiating technology, software, data, cloud, or vendor agreements.

• Ability to translate legal requirements into effective processes and workflows.

• Sound legal judgment with the ability to identify significant risks, recommend practical mitigations, and escalate issues when necessary.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to collaborate with attorneys, compliance professionals, governance teams, technical teams, and business stakeholders.

• Capability to manage multiple priorities in a quickly changing legal environment.

• If working remotely, must have cable broadband or fiber optic internet service with a minimum speed of 10Mbps download and 5Mbps upload.

• Preferred: experience or demonstrated interest in AI, machine learning, generative AI, automated decision-making, or emerging technology law.

• Preferred: familiarity with U.S. and international AI legal and regulatory frameworks.

• Preferred: experience conducting legal or regulatory assessments of technology or AI applications.

• Preferred: experience negotiating provisions related to AI, data usage, model training, intellectual property, or generative AI.

• Preferred: experience with intellectual property matters.

• Preferred: experience in developing legal review procedures, intake workflows, playbooks, templates, or similar tools.

• Preferred: experience with privacy and data protection laws as they apply to AI and emerging technologies.

• Preferred: experience in healthcare, health insurance, pharmacy benefit management, financial services, or other highly regulated sectors.

• Preferred: experience collaborating with multidisciplinary legal, compliance, governance, risk, or technology teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for an annual bonus plan.

• Medical benefits.

• Vision benefits.

• Dental benefits.

• Well-being and behavioral health programs.

• 401(k) plan.

• Company-paid life insurance.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year.

• Paid holidays.

• Leaves of absence.