Lead Counsel, Product
About the role
Lead IP-focused product counsel advising on all legal aspects of product development, launch, and operations for Scale's AI products, with emphasis on intellectual property, regulatory compliance, data licensing, and open-source governance.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Product Advice: Lead IP strategy for product development, embedding IP protection into the full product lifecycle from conception to commercialization, while advising on related product and regulatory matters in collaboration with the broader legal team.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Research, Product, Engineering, Operations, Communications, and Marketing teams to mitigate IP risks in product development, data licensing, and open-source governance.
- IP Counsel: Support management of Scale's worldwide IP portfolio including patents and trademarks; assist with patent prosecution and trademark registration and enforcement.
- Risk Mitigation: Advise on third-party, synthetic, and open-source data and models, ensuring compliance with licensing requirements; design open-source governance policies.
- Agreements: Support drafting and negotiation of commercial agreement provisions involving intellectual property.
- Specialized Expertise: Provide counsel on machine learning, robotics, and other technical areas, with ability to engage effectively with technical teams on complex engineering and product issues.
- Training: Develop and deliver IP and data licensing training to enhance Scale's compliance culture.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in intellectual property law at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house legal department (ideally product counseling within a high-growth technology company).
- JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred) in good standing.
- Strategic thinking, risk calibration, collaboration, agility and organization, and technical fluency with AI/ML focus.
Skills
Benefits
- comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- retirement benefits
- learning and development stipend
- generous PTO
- commuter stipend (optional)
About Scale AI
Data-centric infrastructure to accelerate the development of AI
Scale accelerates the development of AI within organizations of any size to deliver critical business insights and operational efficiency. Its data-centric infrastructure platform leverages RLHF (Reinforced Learning with Human Feedback) to help organizations build the strongest AI models that supercharge their business, with customers across industries including Meta, Microsoft, U.S. Army, DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit, Open AI, General Motors, Toyota Research Institute, Brex, Instacart and Flexport.
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