Senior Counsel

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

📋 Description

• Draft, negotiate, and finalize commercial agreements such as data licensing agreements, Statements of Work (SOWs), Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), Business Associate Agreements (BAAs), Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), and innovative arrangements.

• Provide guidance to business units, partnerships, engineering, and technical teams regarding HIPAA, de-identification, consent, provenance, GDPR/CCPA, and emerging regulations related to AI.

• Manage and prioritize a high-volume legal queue with numerous active matters.

• Convey legal risks as clear, actionable advice for technical teams and counterparties.

• Oversee and collaborate with outside counsel on specialized matters while controlling scope and budget.

• Develop legal infrastructure, including templates, playbooks, intake processes, and AI-assisted workflows.

• Collaborate with partnerships, business development, healthcare, product, engineering, and outside counsel.

• Lead data licensing negotiations from initiation to signature.

• Oversee privacy workstreams such as de-identification strategies, cross-border data transfers, and maintenance of privacy policies.

• Enhance legal operations and establish yourself as the primary legal contact for the business.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of relevant legal experience.

• Strong expertise in technology transactions and privacy law.

• Experience in healthcare, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA is highly preferred.

• Proven track record of negotiating and closing complex technology or data transactions from start to finish.

• Experience managing substantive privacy program initiatives, including HIPAA, de-identification, GDPR/CCPA, DPAs, and BAAs.

• Ability to manage a high-volume legal queue and effectively triage multiple matters.

• Capability to operate effectively in ambiguous situations and create processes, templates, playbooks, intake procedures, or workflows.

• Proficient in using Slack, Notion, Google Drive, and AI systems for legal triage and document preparation.

• Ability to advise colleagues and negotiate with counterparties utilizing practical, composed, and solution-oriented communication.

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree.

• Active membership in the bar of at least one U.S. jurisdiction.

• Preferred: experience in an in-house role within a technology company, especially related to AI, training data, or health data.

• Preferred: background in data licensing or data-centric commercial deals.

• Preferred: familiarity with Expert Determination and Safe Harbor de-identification standards.

• Preferred: experience as an early-stage or solo in-house counsel.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible remote work arrangements.

• Commitment to equal employment opportunities without discrimination based on protected characteristics.

• Confidential handling of voluntary self-identification information, maintained separately from personnel records.

• Voluntary self-identification for EEOC and veteran status will not result in adverse treatment of applicants.