AGC, Head of Litigation

reflectionai; New York (NY); Sur place; USD 300 000 - 550 000; Plein temps

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Résumé du poste

Reflection is seeking an experienced litigation leader to build and lead our litigation and investigations function. You will serve as the company's principal legal advisor on disputes and coordinate with outside counsel across IP, commercial, and regulatory matters.

You will combine strategic leadership with hands‑on execution, shaping strategy, managing discovery, and advising leadership on risk as Reflection scales.

Qualifications

• A J.D. and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar, with the ability to satisfy applicable requirements to practice in the role's location.
• ~12+ years of relevant litigation experience, combining law-firm and in-house exposure

Responsabilités

• Lead litigation and dispute strategy across IP, commercial, privacy, and regulatory matters.
• Develop case strategy, assess exposure, oversee discovery, and guide settlements and appeals.
• Build the litigation function with intake, escalation, budgeting, and reporting processes.
• Design and oversee discovery readiness, information governance with IT, security, and data teams.
• Manage subpoenas, government demands, and information requests.
• Lead regulatory investigations and coordination with Product & Regulatory counsel.
• Advise on product and business risk related to training data, model releases, and licensing.

Formation

Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Description du poste

Our Mission

Reflection is a research lab making intelligence open and accessible for everyone to use, customize, and build on. We build open models that let anyone control their intelligence and help shape the future of AI. Our mission: make intelligence open and accessible to all.

Role Overview

Reflection is hiring an experienced, business-minded litigation leader to build and lead our litigation and investigations function. You will serve as the company's principal legal advisor on disputes and contentious matters, own litigation strategy across a broad portfolio, and establish the systems and processes that prepare Reflection for its next stage of growth. You will combine strategic leadership with hands‑on execution: assessing emerging threats, directing significant matters, advising senior leadership, managing outside counsel, and building practical approaches to litigation readiness, discovery, subpoenas, and investigations. Your remit will include complex technology and intellectual property disputes, commercial matters, and regulatory investigations, with responsibility for coordinating other disputes across the business. You will work closely with our Head of Product & Regulatory and colleagues across Legal, Research, Engineering, Safety, Security, and the business to anticipate risk and inform decisions about model development, open‑weight releases, and commercialization. You will help turn lessons from disputes and investigations into better advice, stronger processes, and informed business decisions. This is an opportunity to define and operationalize an important legal function at a frontier AI company. You should be equally comfortable recommending a strategy to executives, working through technical facts with researchers, improving a legal brief, and building a process that the company can use repeatedly.

What You’ll Do

Lead litigation and dispute strategy. Develop, execute and own Reflection's approach to threatened and active disputes, including copyright and other intellectual property claims, commercial disputes, privacy and consumer claims, and other significant matters. Coordinate with specialist counsel on employment, corporate, and other disputes as appropriate.

Drive matters from initial assessment through resolution. Develop case strategy, assess exposure and business implications, oversee factual development and discovery, guide briefing and witness preparation, and recommend settlement, trial, and appellate strategies. Pursue affirmative claims when they advance Reflection's interests.

Build the litigation function. Establish practical systems for matter intake, escalation, deadline management, case assessment, budgeting, reporting, and knowledge management. Define the function's operating model and processes, and develop its resourcing and team‑building plan as company needs evolve.

Own litigation readiness and discovery. Design and oversee legal-hold, preservation, collection, review, and production processes in partnership with IT, Security, Research, Privacy, and outside specialists. Help develop information‑governance practices that account for Reflection's technical systems, data, and model‑development lifecycle.

Manage subpoenas and other legal demands. Establish and operate workflows for civil discovery requests, government demands, and requests for information, including assessment of validity and scope, objections and negotiations, confidentiality protections, and timely responses.

Lead regulatory investigations and enforcement responses. Manage investigative inquiries and contested matters in close partnership with Product & Regulatory counsel and other relevant legal colleagues. Develop response strategies, coordinate factual submissions and witness preparation, and assess the implications of proposed resolutions.

Advise proactively on product and business risk. Partner with Research, Engineering, Product, and Legal colleagues on material disputes exposure associated with training data, model development and releases, licensing, commercial relationships, and public representations. Translate evolving litigation and enforcement developments into practical advice.

Support sensitive investigations and leadership decisions. Lead or coordinate internal investigations as appropriate, protect confidential information, and provide clear recommendations to the General Counsel and senior leadership on consequential legal, business, and reputational issues.

Build effective cross‑functional practices. Deliver training and playbooks, coordinate with Communications on sensitive matters, and work with Finance and relevant legal colleagues on litigation reporting, insurance, indemnification, and potential financial exposure.

What We’re Looking For

A J.D. and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar, with the ability to satisfy applicable requirements to practice in the role's location.

~12+ years of relevant litigation experience, combining law-fi