Arena
Associate General Counsel - AI Product & Privacy
SF Bay Area · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 14, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years; experience at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house legal department.
- Education
- JD.
About the job
Serves as embedded legal counsel to product and engineering teams, leading privacy compliance, advising on AI governance, and supporting commercial agreements and legal operations.
What you'll do
- Advise product and engineering teams on privacy, intellectual property, enterprise use cases, and consumer protection from concept through launch.
- Lead the global privacy program and advise on responsible AI development, deployment, and emerging regulation.
- Negotiate privacy-related customer, partner, and vendor agreements and build scalable legal processes, tools, and workflows.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of legal experience in privacy and product counseling at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house legal department.
- JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar in good standing.
- Experience independently building and running a global privacy program, with hands-on familiarity with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and cross-border data transfer mechanisms.
- Ability to counsel product and engineering teams and build or iterate on tools and human-in-the-loop workflows; experience with tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Replit, Loveable, and/or Retool.
Nice to have
- California bar membership; consumer product counseling experience is ideal.
- Experience advising on consumer products or multi-sided marketplaces, controller-focused global privacy programs, or de-identification and anonymization data pipelines.
Tools
GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, Cursor, Claude Code, Replit, Loveable, Retool
AI focus
Advise on responsible AI product development and emerging regulation for AI models, agents, and tools; build internal agents and software to support legal operations.
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