Head of Legal (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States; hybrid work required

Base compensation: $250K–$300K annually, plus equity and bonus opportunities.

Company

AI search and SaaS platform helping brands improve visibility, recommendations, and trust across AI-powered search experiences.

What you will do

• Establish the legal strategy, policies, priorities, operating model, and risk-assessment frameworks while advising the executive team.
• Build scalable templates, playbooks, approval frameworks, contracting workflows, legal technology, automation, and AI-assisted processes.
• Draft, review, and negotiate enterprise SaaS agreements, MSAs, order forms, DPAs, SOWs, partnerships, reseller agreements, and vendor contracts.
• Advise Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Sales, Finance, and People on commercial matters, privacy, data protection, security, advertising, consumer protection, and emerging AI regulation.
• Support corporate governance, Board matters, equity administration, financings, investor diligence, employment, benefits, intellectual property, insurance, disputes, compliance, and strategic transactions.
• Build the legal team and infrastructure needed to support company growth.

Requirements

• 10+ years of legal experience combining top-tier law firm and in-house work at a high-growth technology, SaaS, AI, data, or marketing technology company.
• Strong experience negotiating sophisticated enterprise commercial agreements and advising executive stakeholders.
• Practical knowledge of privacy, data protection, intellectual property, AI, software, and technology transactions.
• Experience with corporate governance, financings, equity, employment, risk management, and outside counsel.
• Active membership in at least one U.S. state bar and ability to practice in California required.
• Strong business judgment, clear communication, accountability, and comfort operating hands-on as a department of one or early legal leader.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-powered products, content platforms, search, SEO, AEO, marketing technology, or developer tools.
• Experience with AI-generated content, copyright, content licensing, model-training data, or platform governance.
• Experience scaling a legal function through Series B or later-stage growth.
• Experience implementing CLM, contract automation, legal operations, or AI-assisted legal workflows.
• Experience supporting international operations or enterprise go-to-market teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity in a fast-growing startup.
• Competitive benefits package tailored to location.
• Flexible time off policy and parental leave.
• Culture centered on extreme ownership, quality, curiosity, respectful candor, and customer focus.