AI Product Counsel

San Francisco, CAfull timeRemote

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senior

$216k–$345k

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Handshake Senior AI Product Counsel leads legal work for AI products and platforms at Handshake, addressing novel legal challenges in AI model training, evaluation, and deployment. This role partners with product, research, engineering, and go-to-market teams to provide legal guidance from product design through launch.

Responsibilities

As Senior AI Product Counsel, you’ll lead legal work across Handshake to build and ship AI products and platforms, from human data infrastructure for frontier AI labs to our enterprise offerings and career network. Handshake operates at the frontier of the AI industry and you will help solve novel legal and business challenges at the intersection of AI model training, evaluation and deployment, intellectual property and data, and the evolution of work in the AI economy. You’ll join a lean, high-leverage Legal team and report to the General Counsel. The team values practical judgment, intellectual curiosity and a bias for action.
Embed with Handshake AI product, research, engineering, operations and go-to-market teams as their day-to-day legal partner, from early product design through launch and delivery to customers.
Advise on the novel legal questions raised by new AI training and eval data products and modalities, including RL environments, personal and business data, and data in regulated domains such as health and finance.
Support our work with frontier labs and enterprise customers. Partner with commercial counsel to structure novel deals and build scalable commercial programs on top of our products and platforms.
Advise on the Handshake AI platform contractor experience end to end: terms, onboarding, identity and credential verification, quality controls, monitoring, and payouts across a global network.
Build scalable product counseling and AI governance: AI-assisted intake and review workflows, playbooks, templates, data provenance and risk documentation, and self-serve guidance that let teams ship fast with confidence.

Qualification

JD and membership in at least one U8+ years of legal experienceStrong technical fluency and curiositySound judgment under ambiguityPrior experience supporting AIExperience with regulated data

Required

JD and membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
8+ years of legal experience, with significant in-house experience supporting product, platform, or emerging technology teams.
Deep familiarity with privacy and intellectual property law, and with the laws governing AI and platform products.
Track record of leading and scaling product counseling and legal review programs in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
Experience working alongside commercial counsel on complex, novel commercial relationships.
Strong technical fluency and curiosity; you enjoy partnering with engineers, researchers and product managers to understand how things work.
Sound judgment under ambiguity: you can make a risk call where there is no precedent or playbook, explain it plainly and stand behind it.
Exceptional communication skills and business judgment, balancing legal risk with strategic goals.
Passion for Handshake’s mission to democratize access to opportunity and a deep interest in AI.

Preferred

Prior experience supporting AI, ML, or data products, or working with AI labs or other frontier AI companies
Experience with data licensing and data provenance issues
Experience with regulated data, such as health or biometric data
Familiarity with AI risk management frameworks, bias audit practices, or AI safety and transparency issues
Experience working in marketplace or gig platforms

Benefits

Dental
Vision
401(k)
PTO
Equity/RSU
Parental Leave
Wellness

Company

Handshake

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