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AI Product Counsel

Handshake· General & Administrative
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San Francisco, CA$266.4k - $380kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Legal counsel role embedded across Handshake AI products, focusing on AI data infrastructure, enterprise offerings, and platform governance. Partners with product, research, engineering, and GTM teams to navigate novel legal questions around AI training, evaluation, data, IP, and regulated data, while enabling scalable commercial programs and processes.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Juris Doctor (JD)In-house/experience with product, platform, or emerging technology teamsPrivacy lawIntellectual Property lawContract negotiation with commercial teamsTechnical fluencyRisk assessment and decision-making under ambiguityCommunication and business judgment
Nice to have:AI governance

Benefits

  • Equity in a fast-growing company
  • 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
  • Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
  • Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
  • $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
  • Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
  • Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
  • Team outings & referral bonuses
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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