Counsel

Capital Group•Los Angeles, CA

18h

About The Position

At Capital Group, the company values talents, traditions, and uniqueness, fostering a strong sense of belonging in a respectful workplace. They intentionally seek diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds, investing in a culture designed to celebrate differences, believing that belonging leads to better outcomes and a stronger community. Core values include Integrity, Client Focus, Diverse Perspectives, Long-Term Thinking, and Community. Performance is reviewed annually, and compensation is designed to motivate and reward, including a competitive salary, bonuses, and company-funded retirement contributions. The company supports a full life with generous time-away and health benefits from day one, flexible work options, 2-for-1 matching gifts for charitable contributions, annual grants for organizations, and access to on-demand professional development resources. This role is for a high-caliber Legal & Compliance team, focusing on building and scaling a global AI enterprise program at a leading asset manager. It is a strategic position centered on designing and operationalizing AI policies and governance frameworks to enable responsible innovation across investment, client-facing, HR, and operational AI use cases within a highly regulated asset manager. The work is global, requiring seamless coordination with stakeholders in Europe, Canada, and Asia. The successful candidate will help create policies, guardrails, tools, and scalable systems to empower teams to experiment, deploy, and manage AI responsibly at an enterprise scale.

Requirements

JD + active CA or NY Bar (or eligible for CA or NY Registered In House Counsel registration)
3–4 years’ experience in law focusing on technology transactions, data/privacy, or financial services regulatory counseling
Demonstrated success designing or operationalizing AI governance frameworks with practical integration of regulatory requirements, information security and global risk
Strong transactional foundation with experience negotiating IT vendor, SAAS and AI provider contracts and developing AI/cloud/data templates and playbooks, such as for AI enable contract markup and intelligence systems
Proven ability to coordinate complex, multijurisdictional projects (U.S. hub with EU/Asia input)
Demonstrated experimentation with AI tools in legal practice
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with credibility across senior investment, HR, client, and/or operations stakeholders

Nice To Haves

3-4 years' experience with a top tier law firm and/or a leading AI - focused financial services inhouse legal team
Experience with generative AI in investment, client facing, or HR applications
Familiarity with legal tech or contract AI platforms, and prior work building or experimenting with AI agents for Legal & Compliance use cases
Regional familiarity with Europe and Asia regulatory considerations and/or additional language fluency

Responsibilities

Design, iterate, and operationalize global AI policies, governance frameworks, experimentation protocols, risk assessments, and playbooks spanning investment research/management, client facing tools, HR/talent processes, and operational automation
Ensure multijurisdictional alignment (EU AI Act high-risk considerations, GDPR, emerging U.S. and Asia frameworks) with smooth cross time zone coordination
Leverage experience with negotiating third party data vendor, SAAS and AI provider contracts to build scalable AI/cloud/data vendor templates and negotiation playbooks that integrate Information Security and Global Risk requirements, and the candidate will enhance these via legal tech and AI enabled workflows and managed service providers
Partner with investment teams, client groups, HR, compliance, information security, data office, procurement, and global risk to embed pragmatic guardrails into high-impact AI initiatives
Provide clear, commercially oriented guidance, training, and governance committee support to accelerate responsible innovation and risk-aware decisions
Track regulatory and technology developments across the U.S., Canada, EU, and Asia and translate insights into actionable framework updates
Support governance decisions around complex AI applications (e.g., model supported research workflows, generative AI client tools, automated HR analytics)