Senior Counsel - Product & Privacy

Together AI•San Francisco, CA

8h•$245,000 - $275,000

About The Position

Together AI is seeking a Senior Counsel to build the legal and compliance foundation for its AI infrastructure and customer products. The role partners with Product, Engineering, Research, Security, Infrastructure, and Sales, helping teams move quickly while managing legal risk. The successful candidate will build programs spanning product, privacy, export controls, and patent and licensing strategy, and apply an understanding of AI infrastructure technologies such as inference, fine-tuning, and GPU infrastructure. The position covers product counseling and terms, AI infrastructure and model licensing issues, open-source licensing, and the development and operation of a patent program. It also owns and evolves the global privacy program, including privacy-by-design reviews, data processing agreements, subprocessors, international data transfers, and privacy impact assessments. In addition, the Senior Counsel will build an export controls and sanctions compliance program appropriate for advanced compute and AI technologies, including policies, training, controls, monitoring, and advice on applicable restrictions. Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company working to lower the cost of modern AI systems through co-design of software, hardware, algorithms, and models. It supports open and transparent AI systems and has contributed to open-source research, models, and datasets. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $245,000–$275,000, plus equity and benefits. Compensation depends on location, level, experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Requirements

JD and an 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 (EAR/OFAC), ideally including building or scaling a compliance program.
Experience with technology and IP licensing, including open-source licenses.
Strong judgment, a pragmatic risk-based approach, and the ability to give 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 judgment about what to own, what to escalate, and when to engage 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 scaling a legal function from an early stage.
Familiarity with AI/ML legal issues, such as 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 lifecycle to incorporate legal considerations into inference, fine-tuning, GPU cluster, and platform offerings.
Draft and maintain customer-facing product terms.
Advise on AI infrastructure legal issues, including model hosting and third-party model licenses, data use and ownership, and shared responsibilities between platform and customer.
Build playbooks, templates, and self-serve tools that help the business move quickly without creating a legal bottleneck.
Advise on open-source and model licensing, including open-weight models and permissive, restrictive, and community licenses.
Build and run the patent program, including invention disclosures, collaboration with Research and Engineering on patentable innovations, management of outside patent counsel, and alignment of 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 suited to 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 policies, training, controls, and monitoring in partnership with Finance, Security, Sales, and Infrastructure teams.