Protege
Senior Counsel, Commercial and Data
Remote · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of relevant legal experience; no alternative stated.
- Education
- JD
About the job
Provides day-to-day legal counsel, leading commercial transactions and privacy work for Protege’s AI training-data business while building scalable legal processes.
What you'll do
- Draft, negotiate, and close commercial agreements, including data licenses, SOWs, NDAs, BAAs, and DPAs.
- Advise on data privacy, including HIPAA, de-identification, GDPR/CCPA, cross-border transfers, and emerging AI regulation.
- Triage a high-volume legal queue, coordinate outside counsel, and build templates, playbooks, intake processes, and AI-assisted workflows.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of relevant legal experience with significant depth in technology transactions and privacy.
- JD and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- Experience negotiating and closing complex technology or data transactions and owning parts of a privacy program.
- Ability to manage a high-volume legal queue and work independently in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.
Nice to have
- In-house experience at a technology company, ideally involving AI, training data, or health data.
- Experience negotiating data licenses; familiarity with de-identification standards or early/solo in-house legal work.
Tools
Slack, Notion, Google Drive, AI systems
AI focus
Uses AI systems for legal triage and drafting and builds AI-assisted workflows; advises on emerging AI regulation.
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