AGC, Head of Litigation

Reflection • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Reflection is hiring an experienced, business-minded litigation leader to build and lead its litigation and investigations function. The role serves as the company’s principal legal advisor on disputes and contentious matters, owns litigation strategy across a broad portfolio, and establishes the systems and processes needed to support the company’s growth. The Head of Litigation combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution, including assessing emerging threats, directing significant matters, advising senior leadership, managing outside counsel, and building practical approaches to litigation readiness, discovery, subpoenas, and investigations.

The role covers complex technology and intellectual property disputes, commercial matters, regulatory investigations, and coordination of other disputes across the business. It works closely with the Head of Product & Regulatory and colleagues across Legal, Research, Engineering, Safety, Security, and the business to anticipate risk and inform decisions about model development, open-weight releases, and commercialization. The role also turns lessons from disputes and investigations into improved advice, processes, and business decisions.

The successful candidate will define and operationalize this legal function at a frontier AI company, balancing executive-level strategy, technical fact development with researchers, legal drafting, and repeatable processes.

Requirements

• J.D. and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar, with ability to satisfy applicable requirements to practice in the role’s location.
• Approximately 12 or more years of relevant litigation experience combining law-firm practice with in-house experience at a technology company; demonstrated scope, functional ownership, and operational capacity are emphasized over an exact number of years.
• Strong record of independently leading complex matters, making strategic decisions, directing outside counsel, and advising business leaders through uncertainty.
• Broad civil litigation experience and strong command of procedure, discovery, evidence, motion practice, and dispute resolution, including meaningful experience with technology or intellectual property disputes.
• Experience building and implementing legal systems, workflows, or programs, and translating policies or playbooks into processes people follow.
• Experience handling government or regulatory investigations, subpoenas, or other investigative demands, and judgment to identify when specialist expertise is needed.
• Excellent legal analysis, writing, and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex risks clearly to executives and technical colleagues.
• Curiosity and technical fluency to understand AI development and deployment, investigate complex factual records, and work credibly with researchers and engineers.
• Strong business judgment, ability to distinguish material risks from manageable uncertainty, prioritize effectively, and recommend a course of action.
• Collaborative, low-ego approach and willingness to move between strategic leadership, detailed execution, and urgent operational work.

Nice To Haves

• Substantial copyright litigation experience involving software, training data, digital platforms, licensing, or emerging technology.
• Experience establishing or scaling a litigation function at a growing company.
• Experience with open-source software, open-weight models, AI systems, or technically complex discovery.
• Experience coordinating cross-border disputes or investigations and managing counsel in multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience developing legal talent, leading teams, or using legal technology to improve matter management and discovery.

Responsibilities

• Develop, execute, and own Reflection’s strategy for threatened and active disputes, including intellectual property, commercial, privacy, consumer, and other significant matters; coordinate with specialist counsel on other disputes as appropriate.
• Drive matters from initial assessment through resolution, including case strategy, exposure and business-impact assessment, factual development, discovery, briefing, witness preparation, and settlement, trial, and appellate recommendations.
• Pursue affirmative claims when they advance Reflection’s interests.
• Build practical systems for matter intake, escalation, deadlines, case assessment, budgeting, reporting, and knowledge management; define the function’s operating model, processes, resourcing, and team-building plan as company needs evolve.
• Design and oversee legal-hold, preservation, collection, review, and production processes with IT, Security, Research, Privacy, and outside specialists; help develop information-governance practices suited to Reflection’s technical systems, data, and model-development lifecycle.
• Establish and operate workflows for civil discovery requests, government demands, and requests for information, including assessing validity and scope, objections and negotiations, confidentiality protections, and timely responses.
• Lead regulatory investigations and enforcement responses with Product & Regulatory counsel and other relevant legal colleagues; develop response strategies, coordinate factual submissions and witness preparation, and assess proposed resolutions.
• Advise Research, Engineering, Product, and Legal colleagues on material disputes exposure related to training data, model development and releases, licensing, commercial relationships, and public representations; translate litigation and enforcement developments into practical advice.
• Lead or coordinate internal investigations as appropriate, protect confidential information, and provide clear recommendations to the General Counsel and senior leadership on consequential legal, business, and reputational issues.
• Deliver training and playbooks; coordinate with Communications on sensitive matters; and work with Finance and relevant legal colleagues on litigation reporting, insurance, indemnification, and potential financial exposure.

Benefits

• Top-tier compensation, with salary and equity structured to recognize and retain talent globally.
• Stock options for everyone who joins and contributes to Reflection’s success.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life coverage, with an annual wellness allowance.
• Lunch and dinner provided in the office daily.
• 22 weeks of paid parental leave for all new birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys.
• Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 days in the U.K.
• Visa sponsorship and support for long-term immigration pathways where applicable.
• Regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree