Senior AI Product & Partnerships Counsel

Runway

2d • $230,000 - $290,000

About The Position

Runway is seeking an early lawyer to help shape the legal landscape for generative AI video and enable the company to ship products faster and advance product, data, and go-to-market partnerships. The role serves as a strategic partner to product, engineering, partnerships, sales, marketing, and the executive team, providing practical guidance in a highly technical and rapidly evolving area of law. The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, unstructured environment and build scalable approaches to product and commercial legal work.

The position is preferably based near Runway’s New York City or San Francisco offices, though candidates elsewhere in the United States may be considered. The role involves advising across product development and launch, helping close customer and partner deals, monitoring developments in AI law and policy, and creating legal-team processes and resources that scale the team’s impact.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of relevant experience, including in-house experience at a fast-paced technology company.
• Experience advising product development leaders and executives on a broad range of matters, especially intellectual property and privacy.
• Experience closing partnership and go-to-market deals, such as data partnerships; IP and model licensing; robotics, hardware, and compute agreements; reseller deals; and other partner, customer, and vendor agreements.
• Experience providing practical recommendations to senior leaders with limited time and information.
• J.D. and admission in good standing to at least one state bar.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of and interest in generative AI models and agentic workflows.
• Experience closing strategic, IP-heavy partnerships.
• Experience in B2C and B2B industries and in product-led and enterprise businesses.
• Experience closing B2B SaaS customer deals.
• Big Law and/or hypergrowth technology startup experience.

Responsibilities

• Advise on product legal matters from design through launch, providing pragmatic, product-oriented guidance.
• Build playbooks and streamline legal review of partnership deals, including data partnerships, IP and model licensing, procurement, reseller, and marketplace agreements.
• Close deals with strategic partners and customers, including B2B SaaS contracts for Runway’s generative AI platform and APIs, data processing agreements, and order forms.
• Learn the technical aspects of Runway’s generative AI products in depth to inform business advice.
• Follow and help shape technical, legal, and policy developments in AI, translating them into practical product guidance.
• Develop scalable legal-team practices, including enablement, self-service resources, and AI-enabled automation.

What This Job Offers

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