Senior Counsel - Product & Privacy

Together AI•San Francisco, CA

1d•$245,000 - $275,000

About The Position

Together AI is seeking a Senior Counsel to build the legal and compliance foundation supporting its AI infrastructure and customer products. The role partners with Product, Engineering, Research, Security, Infrastructure, and Sales to help teams move quickly while managing legal risk. It focuses on product, privacy, export controls, and patent and licensing strategy, with an interest in how inference, fine-tuning, and GPU infrastructure work. The Senior Counsel will advise on product development and AI infrastructure offerings, draft customer-facing product terms, and address model hosting, third-party model licenses, data use and ownership, and platform/customer responsibilities. The role will also build practical playbooks, templates, and self-service tools; advise on open-source and model licenses; and help operate a patent program, including invention disclosures, patentable innovations, outside counsel, and filing strategy. The position owns and develops the global privacy program, including privacy-by-design reviews, data processing agreements, subprocessor processes, cross-border transfer mechanisms, and impact assessments. It also tracks privacy and AI regulation and translates developments into practical business guidance. In addition, the Senior Counsel will build and operate export controls and sanctions compliance suited to advanced compute and AI technologies, advise on applicable restrictions and licensing, and develop related policies, training, controls, and monitoring with cross-functional partners. Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company focused on lowering the cost of modern AI systems through co-design of software, hardware, algorithms, and models. The company describes its approach as supporting open and transparent AI systems and has contributed to open-source research, models, and datasets. The role offers a US base salary range of $245,000–$275,000, plus equity and benefits. Compensation depends on location, level, experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Requirements

JD and active bar license in good standing.
At least 7 years of experience at a top law firm and/or in-house at a technology company; cloud, infrastructure, semiconductors, SaaS, or AI experience is ideal.
Demonstrated experience advising product and engineering teams and drafting product terms.
Hands-on experience with global privacy law and running or substantially contributing to a privacy program.
Working knowledge of export controls, including EAR and OFAC; experience building or scaling a compliance program is ideal.
Experience with technology and IP licensing, including open-source licenses.
Strong judgment, a pragmatic risk-based approach, and ability to provide clear, business-oriented advice.
Plain-spoken communication style that makes legal and technical points accessible to non-lawyers.
Comfort working independently in a small, fast-moving legal team, with sound judgment about what to own, escalate, and refer to specialized outside counsel.
Desire to learn and build with AI tools to operate self-sufficiently and at speed.

Nice To Haves

Experience at a high-growth startup or experience scaling a legal function from an early stage.
Familiarity with AI/ML legal issues, including model licensing, training data, AI regulation, and responsible use.
Technical fluency and comfort discussing GPUs, inference systems, APIs, and cloud architecture.
Privacy certifications such as CIPP/E, CIPP/US, or CIPM.

Responsibilities

Partner with Product and Engineering early in the product lifecycle to incorporate legal considerations into inference, fine-tuning, GPU cluster, and platform offerings.
Draft and maintain customer-facing product terms.
Advise on legal issues related to AI infrastructure, including model hosting, third-party model licenses, data use and ownership, and shared responsibility between platform and customer.
Build playbooks, templates, and self-service tools to support business operations.
Advise on open-source and model licensing, including open-weight models and permissive, restrictive, and community licenses.
Help build and run the patent program, including invention disclosure processes, identifying patentable innovations with Research and Engineering, managing outside patent counsel, and aligning filing strategy with business priorities.
Own and evolve the global privacy program across GDPR/UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, other US state laws, and emerging regimes in APAC and elsewhere.
Lead privacy-by-design reviews for products and features involving model inputs, outputs, logging, and retention.
Manage DPAs, subprocessor processes, cross-border data transfer mechanisms, and DPIAs.
Track privacy and AI regulatory developments, including the EU AI Act, and translate them into practical business guidance.
Build and operate an export controls and sanctions compliance program for a company handling advanced compute and AI technologies.
Advise on EAR, OFAC, and related regimes as they apply to GPU access, cloud services, model weights, and customer onboarding, including restricted-party screening, geographic and end-use restrictions, and license determinations.
Develop compliance policies, training, controls, and monitoring in partnership with Finance, Security, Sales, and Infrastructure.