AI Product Counsel

Notion•San Francisco, CA

5d•$230,000 - $260,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Notion is seeking an AI Product Counsel to join the Product and IP Legal team. This role will focus on advising the AI product development team as they build and ship AI functionality. The position involves product counseling for launches, accelerating AI partnership deals, and embedding intelligence across Notion's tools. The role is central to Notion's effort to bring frontier intelligence to a broad surface area, including models, workflows, features, and platform. The role reports to the Head of Product and IP Legal and will work closely with the Lead AI Product Counsel. This position is based in San Francisco, with a hybrid work model requiring in-office presence on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.

Requirements

5+ years of product counseling experience with a technology company and/or law firm (in-house experience strongly preferred), including advising cross-functional teams on AI/ML-powered product development.
Experience reviewing and negotiating vendor agreements (including identifying risk and moving quickly from “issues” to workable paths).
AI and data licensing experience, with strong partnership across Privacy and Security to translate model, data, and customer requirements into practical product and vendor terms.
Sound judgment in ambiguity: make crisp risk calls, name trade-offs clearly, and keep teams moving.
Demonstrated curiosity about AI and a willingness to adopt AI tools to work smarter, move faster, and deliver better results. Developing your personal AI fluency is required for this role.
A Juris Doctor (JD) degree and admission to the California or ability to be registered as in-house counsel in California.

Nice To Haves

The role is based in San Francisco. We work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (our Anchor Days) because we do our best thinking and building together in person. We’re looking for someone who’s excited to work alongside the team during those days.

Responsibilities

Accelerate partnerships for AI product development by collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to streamline and de-risk the partnership path, including model reviews, procurement, and evaluation agreements.
Provide pragmatic, product-oriented counsel that helps teams ship AI features and iterations quickly and responsibly.
Monitor and translate emerging AI regulations into practical product guidance, launch requirements, and risk-based recommendations for cross-functional teams.
Support customer-facing AI questions by partnering with Sales, Privacy, Security, and Product to provide clear, accurate responses on Notion AI capabilities, safeguards, and commitments.
Provide product legal support across the business as bandwidth allows.