Sr. Counsel, Commercial and Data at Protege · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

We're hiring our second attorney: a hands-on counsel who will work directly with the CLO and own a large share of Protege's day-to-day legal work. This is not a narrow specialist seat. On any given week you'll move between a data licensing agreement with a hospital system, a de-identification question under HIPAA, an NDA for a frontier lab, a vendor BAA, and a cross-border transfer analysis — often several of these in the same day.
The two areas where you'll spend most of your time:
Commercial contracts. Data license agreements, SOWs, NDAs, BAAs, DPAs, and vendor agreements — drafting, redlining, and negotiating with counterparties ranging from health systems and data aggregators to the largest AI builders in the world.
Data & Privacy. HIPAA/CCPA/GDPR and de-identification strategy, business associate posture, privacy policies, cross-border data transfers, and emerging AI regulation. Privacy at Protege isn't a compliance checkbox — it's core to the product on multiple domains.
You'll be the person our business, partnerships, and engineering teams come to first. The legal function here runs through Slack, Notion, and Google Drive, with other AI tooling built into triage and drafting. Requests come in fast, priorities shift, and much of the structure you'll work within is structure you'll help build.
Draft, negotiate, and close commercial agreements across our data supply and demand sides — data licensing, SOWs, NDAs, BAAs, DPAs, and novel arrangements that don't have a template yet.
Counsel teams across the company on data privacy: HIPAA, de-identification, consent, provenance, GDPR/CCPA, and AI-specific regulation as it lands.
Triage and run a high-volume legal queue — dozens of active matters at a time — deciding what needs deep work, what needs a fast answer, and what needs outside counsel.
Work directly with technical teams and technical counterparties, translating between legal risk and how the product actually work–in plain and crisp communication style
Manage and coordinate outside counsel on specialist matters, keeping the work moving, tightly scoped, and the spend sensible.
Build the legal infrastructure as you go: templates, playbooks, intake, and AI-assisted workflows that make the whole function faster.
What Success Looks Like

Sr. Counsel, Commercial and Data

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Company

Protege

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