Senior Legal Counsel

Boston (Somerville)full timeOn Site

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senior

H1B: no

Generalist Senior Legal Counsel at Generalist leads commercial, corporate, privacy, and technology legal matters while building the legal function. The role involves drafting and negotiating agreements, supporting fundraising, and advising on AI, data, and technology legal issues.

Responsibilities

Commercial & strategic transactions: Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including strategic partnerships, customer and vendor contracts, pilots, SOWs, NDAs, and other technology transactions; support complex negotiations with Partnerships and company leadership.
Corporate & fundraising: Support financings, fundraising, corporate governance, board and stockholder matters, diligence, and other corporate workstreams, coordinating with external counsel as needed.
AI, data & technology: Advise on legal issues related to Generalist’s technology, including training data, data-use rights, models and fine-tunes, intellectual property, confidentiality and privacy, deployment, and other emerging AI and robotics issues.
Legal advice & risk management: Serve as a practical legal advisor across the company, translating legal risk into clear recommendations that help teams move quickly and make sound decisions.
Legal infrastructure & external counsel: Build scalable templates, playbooks, policies, and processes, and manage outside counsel where specialized support is needed.
Emerging legal landscape: Stay current on developments in AI, LLMs, robotics, privacy, intellectual property, regulation, market practices, and contractual precedent, and take on new legal issues as they arise.

Qualification

Experience working in-house at an AI

Required

JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
6–10+ years of relevant legal experience, including meaningful experience at a technology company, technology-focused law firm, or both.
Strong experience drafting and negotiating commercial technology agreements.
Ability to independently identify legal issues, assess risk, develop a recommendation, and drive matters to resolution without requiring significant day-to-day supervision.
Strong grounding in corporate and commercial law, with the ability to work across a broad range of legal issues rather than specializing narrowly in a single area.
Ability to understand complex technical concepts, work effectively with engineering and research teams, and advise on technology, data, intellectual property, privacy, or related legal issues.
Excellent commercial judgment and an ability to give clear, practical advice rather than simply identifying legal risks.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex legal concepts clearly to non-lawyers.
Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where the applicable law, market norms, and contractual precedent may still be developing.

Preferred

Experience working in-house at an AI, machine learning, robotics, software, or other frontier technology company, especially growth-stage startups.
Significant experience leading or supporting complex commercial deals, strategic transactions, financings, acquisitions, investments, and other high-value or high-impact legal transactions from structuring through execution.
Experience negotiating agreements involving AI models, training data, data licensing, model outputs, fine-tuning, intellectual property, or other emerging technology issues.
Familiarity with current commercial and legal practices in generative AI and LLM-related transactions.