Handshake
Director / Senior Director, AI Product Counsel
$266K–$380K
San Francisco, CA · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of legal experience.
- Education
- JD
About the job
Lead legal counseling for Handshake’s AI products, platforms, and commercial offerings, from early design through customer delivery.
What you'll do
- Partner with product, research, engineering, operations, and go-to-market teams on AI products, including training and evaluation data.
- Advise on frontier-lab and enterprise deals, contractor-platform operations, and legal issues involving data, privacy, intellectual property, and regulated domains.
- Develop scalable product-counseling and AI-governance processes, including review workflows, playbooks, and risk documentation.
What they ask for
- JD and membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
- Significant in-house experience supporting product, platform, or emerging-technology teams.
- Deep familiarity with privacy and intellectual property law and laws governing AI and platform products.
- Track record leading and scaling product counseling and legal review programs; experience working with commercial counsel on complex relationships.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting AI, ML, or data products, or working with AI labs or frontier AI companies.
- Experience with data licensing and provenance, regulated data, AI risk frameworks, or marketplace and gig platforms.
Pay
$266.4K – $380K USD base salary
AI focus
Legal counseling for AI training, evaluation, and deployment products; AI governance and AI-assisted legal intake and review workflows.
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