AI Governance Counsel: Privacy, IP & Compliance

Cigna Healthcare; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

The Cigna Group seeks an attorney to join its Privacy & Innovation Governance team within Legal & Corporate Affairs to counsel on AI and emerging tech, review AI use cases, and support IP matters. The role collaborates with privacy, compliance, information security, technology, procurement, and business teams to shape governance and negotiates technology agreements.

Experience translating complex legal requirements into practical guidance and driving enterprise AI governance is highly

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school.
• Active license and good standing to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 3+ years of relevant legal experience in a law firm, corporate legal department, government agency, or combination thereof.
• Experience with technology, privacy, data, commercial contracting, artificial intelligence, or related legal matters.
• Strong legal research and analytical skills, including the ability to monitor, interpret, and communicate the implications of new and evolving laws and regulations.
• Experience reviewing and negotiating technology, software, data, cloud, or vendor agreements.
• Ability to translate legal requirements into practical processes and workflows, with a continuous-improvement mindset and attention to consistent execution.
• Sound legal judgment, including the ability to identify material risks, recommend practical mitigations, and recognize when to seek guidance or elevate issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex legal requirements into clear and practical guidance.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with attorneys, compliance professionals, governance teams, technical teams, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and operate effectively in a rapidly evolving area of law.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze emerging federal, state, and international laws, regulations, regulatory guidance, and enforcement developments relating to artificial intelligence, machine learning, automated decision-making, and other emerging technologies.
• Assess new and proposed AI legal requirements and support the development of practical guidance regarding their impact on The Cigna Group's businesses, operations, and AI governance framework.
• Maintain regulatory inventories, legal summaries, guidance, and other resources to support implementation of evolving AI requirements.
• Conduct legal reviews of proposed AI and machine-learning use cases, identify applicable legal and regulatory requirements, and advise on risks associated with the development, acquisition, deployment, and use of AI systems.
• Participate in enterprise AI governance processes and collaborate with Enterprise Model Governance and other stakeholders to provide legal guidance throughout the AI lifecycle.
• Review, draft, and negotiate AI and intellectual property related provisions in technology, vendor, data, licensing, and other commercial agreements, including provisions addressing data use, model training, intellectual property, confidentiality, regulatory compliance, transparency, audit rights, liability, and generative AI.
• Support the development and maintenance of standard AI and IP contractual provisions, negotiation guidance, playbooks, and other resources to promote consistent treatment of AI and IP-related legal risks.
• Advise on the intersection of AI requirements with privacy and data protection laws and collaborate with other legal subject-matter experts on intellectual property, healthcare regulation, employment, consumer protection, and other applicable areas of law.
• Support intellectual property counsel in reviewing and advising on employee intellectual property obligations, outside activity requests, and matters involving ownership, licensing, protection, and commercialization of intellectual property assets.
• Assist intellectual property counsel with enterprise IP initiatives, including identifying and addressing IP risks associated with AI and emerging technologies and developing practical guidance and resources to protect proprietary assets.
• Help develop, implement, and improve practical processes and workflows for AI use-case review and related IP legal support, including intake, triage, documentation, escalation, and tracking, to promote consistency and efficiency.
• Partner with colleagues across Privacy & Innovation Governance and other enterprise functions to translate evolving legal requirements into practical policies, standards, controls, and business guidance.
• Support the development and enhancement of enterprise policies, standards, training, and governance frameworks related to responsible AI and emerging technologies.
• Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice that supports responsible innovation while appropriately managing legal and regulatory risk.

Skills

Legal research

Analytical skills

Written & verbal communication

Collaborative skills

Regulatory interpretation

Education

Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree

Job description

The Cigna Group seeks an attorney to join its Privacy & Innovation Governance team within Legal & Corporate Affairs to counsel on AI and emerging tech, review AI use cases, and support IP matters. The role collaborates with privacy, compliance, information security, technology, procurement, and business teams to shape governance and negotiates technology agreements.

Experience translating complex legal requirements into practical guidance and driving enterprise AI governance is highly