Assistant General Counsel, Counsel Product, Privacy, and IP

Ironclad•San Francisco, CA

1d•$256,000 - $300,000•Onsite

About The Position

Ironclad is seeking an experienced lead counsel to lead its world-class Product, Privacy, and IP legal function. This individual will be a collaborative and results-driven product legal leader who will partner strategically with the business to drive growth and operational excellence using legal technology. The role involves being at the forefront of AI adoption and innovation, actively using AI tools, helping design and test AI-powered product features, and refining legal team operations with data and automation. The ideal candidate is excited to work with AI tools, has hands-on experience with AI in legal or product counseling, and is comfortable leading cross-functional discussions on responsible AI, governance, privacy, IP, and risk. This is an opportunity to be a power user at a leading legal tech company, with early access to new product features and the ability to directly impact the product built for the legal industry.

Requirements

JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership.
Substantial legal experience spanning a leading law firm and high-growth technology company.
12+ years of legal experience preferred with at least 5 of those in-house.
Deep experience in at least one of product counseling or privacy/data protection.
Demonstrated ability to advise on complex, ambiguous matters involving product design, data, AI systems, emerging regulation, IP, security, and commercial risk.
Experience building or improving scalable legal programs, including governance frameworks, review processes, playbooks, templates, decision tools, training, or knowledge systems.
Strong understanding of how AI products are built and operated, including model or provider selection, training and evaluation, benchmarking, retrieval, prompt or agentic workflows, human oversight, testing, monitoring, and change management.
Ability to translate technical, legal, and regulatory complexity into clear recommendations, workable product requirements, and business decisions.
Consistently strong judgment: able to balance legal risk, customer trust, product usability, delivery timelines, and company goals; identify difficult decisions; and escalate appropriately.
Track record of leading high-stakes, cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders without relying on formal authority.
Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to make complex issues understandable and actionable for technical and non-technical audiences.
Intellectual curiosity about AI and the future of legal work, paired with critical thinking about useful business outcomes, necessary context, and the limits of any tool or analysis.
High EQ, low ego, pragmatism, and a collaborative working style.
Comfortable moving quickly, learning in public, and improving the system as you go.

Responsibilities

Serve as embedded product counsel for a portfolio of Ironclad products and features, with a particular focus on AI-enabled, agentic, data-intensive, and workflow-integrated capabilities.
Join product development early in the roadmap, discovery, PRD, design, and testing phases to identify legal, regulatory, privacy, IP, ethical, and customer trust considerations.
Provide practical, risk-calibrated recommendations to Product and Engineering.
Establish and improve a predictable legal lane for priority AI features, including intake, tiering, review gates, decision records, and escalation paths.
Help operate and mature a scalable product-focused AI governance program across products and features.
Translate evolving AI, privacy, consumer protection, IP, and professional responsibility requirements into product requirements, launch criteria, documentation, and monitoring obligations.
Act as a senior legal advisor on privacy-sensitive product design, data use, retention and deletion, cross-border data flows, data protection agreements, security commitments, and privacy documentation.
Maintain a practical view of operational risk, including incident response, audit readiness, customer inquiries, and the relationship between product behavior and contractual commitments.
Advise Product and Engineering on copyright, trademark, patent, open-source, licensing, data rights, model outputs, and other IP issues arising from product development and AI systems.
Support proactive IP clearance and protection for new product names, features, technical inventions, partnerships, and AI-related innovations.
Support customer-facing and commercial matters when product, AI, privacy, data, IP, or security questions affect a deal, renewal, expansion, or strategic partnership.
Participate in selected customer and prospect conversations as a subject matter expert.
Turn recurring legal judgments into reusable systems: review rubrics, checklists, templates, decision trees, playbooks, guidance, training, and knowledge assets.

Benefits

Equity awards (a new hire grant, along with opportunities for additional awards throughout your tenure)
Competitive health and wellness benefits
Commitment to career growth and development
100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision), and 75% coverage for dependents with buy-up plan options available
Market-leading leave policies, including gender-neutral parental leave and compassionate leave
Family forming support through Maven for you and your partner
Paid time off - take the time you need, when you need it
Monthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and (if applicable) cell phone use
Mental health support through Modern Health, including therapy, coaching, and digital tools
Pre-tax commuter benefits (US Employees)
401(k) plan with Fidelity with employer match (US Employees)
Regular team events to connect, recharge, and have fun
The opportunity to help build the company you want to work at