Associate General Counsel Senior Director (Ads & AI)

Unity; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health insurance

Employee stock ownership

Generous vacation and personal days

Office food and snacks

Job summary

Unity is seeking a senior in-house attorney to own the legal strategy for our AI product portfolio, including in-editor and desktop AI agents and generative tooling. You will shape data-rights frameworks, guide product design with regulatory constraints, and draft key licenses and data-sharing agreements.

You will collaborate with product, engineering and data-science teams to scale policies across the org, serving as the trusted legal voice in strategy and execution.

Qualifications

• Licensed to practice law with in-house or law-firm experience counseling technology product teams directly
• Demonstrated ownership of legal counseling for AI or machine-learning products, covering training-data rights, model licensing, output ownership and user-facing disclosures
• Working command of global privacy law — GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, COPPA — applied to SDKs, telemetry and advertising data flows, not just policy documentation
• Ability to draft and negotiate commercial technology agreements independently, from first redline to signature
• Experience in games, interactive entertainment, or a developer-platform business
• Mobile advertising or ad tech background — mediation, attribution, programmatic, or measurement
• Experience building legal self-service infrastructure for fast-moving product organizations
• Open-source licensing depth, especially license compatibility for datasets and embedded assets
• Hands-on EU AI Act or comparable emerging-AI-regulation assessment work
• Comfort using AI tools in your own practice

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary legal counsel for Unity’s AI product portfolio — desktop and in-editor AI agents, generative tooling, the agent plugin ecosystem, and AI-driven marketing and monetization products
• Own the data-rights and identity frameworks underpinning Unity’s Grow business, including developer data-use architecture, training-data eligibility, device identifiers and cross-product data flows
• Counsel product, engineering and data-science teams in the room where features are designed, converting privacy, IP and regulatory constraints into requirements engineers can build to
• Draft and negotiate the agreements that make the roadmap possible — model and technology provider licenses, partnership and referral agreements, research collaborations and data-sharing arrangements
• Set and defend Unity’s positions on emerging AI and data questions in writing, and build templates, playbooks and guidance that scale across teams
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure alignment of AI/data policies with product strategy and regulatory expectations
• Manage external counsel engagements and drive complex cross-border negotiations
• Mentor junior lawyers and help develop a scalable, self-service legal support model for product teams

Skills

In-house counsel

AI/ML legal

Privacy law (GDPR/CCPA/CPRA)

Contract negotiation

Licensing & IP

Regulatory compliance

stakeholder management

Open-source licensing

EU AI Act assessment

Product counsel for games/SDKs

Tools

Legal self-service infra

Job description

• Unity is shipping AI products into the hands of millions of creators, and the data infrastructure behind Unity’s Grow business is being rebuilt at the same time. This role is the lawyer at the center of both. You will be the legal owner for Unity’s AI product portfolio — in-editor and desktop AI agents, generative tooling, our agent plugin ecosystem, and the ML systems powering ad monetization — and for the identity and data-rights frameworks those products depend on
• The questions are genuinely unsettled. Who owns the output of a generative tool a developer directs? What can a platform train on when 90% of games embed third-party marketplace assets? When does a telemetry default cross from convenience into a consent problem? You will not be applying a playbook
• You will be writing it, and your written positions will govern how products get built. Short-term success (first two quarters): the uncovered matters have a clear owner and a documented position; product teams route AI and data questions to you by default rather than escalating; the highest-risk open items have decisions attached to them. Longer-term success: Unity’s AI and data-use positions are coherent across the portfolio rather than negotiated product by product; the frameworks scale without you personally reviewing every request; you are a trusted voice with product and engineering leadership on what Unity should and should not do
• Impact. This is a small legal team where each lawyer owns their swimlanes outright. There is no layer between you and the product decisions. What you write becomes the company’s position
• Serve as primary legal counsel for Unity’s AI product portfolio — desktop and in-editor AI agents, generative tooling, the agent plugin ecosystem, and AI-driven marketing and monetization products — from concept through launch and iteration
• Own the data-rights and identity frameworks underpinning Unity’s Grow business, including developer data-use architecture, training-data eligibility, device identifiers and cross-product data flows
• Counsel product, engineering and data-science teams in the room where features are designed, converting privacy, IP and regulatory constraints into requirements engineers can build to
• Draft and negotiate the agreements that make the roadmap possible — model and technology provider licenses, partnership and referral agreements, research collaborations and data-sharing arrangements
• Set and defend Unity’s positions on emerging AI and data questions in writing, and build the templates, playbooks and guidance that let those positions scale across teams
• Reports to: VP, Deputy General Counsel

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, life and disability insurance
• Employee stock ownership
• Generous vacation and personal days
• Office food and free snacks, lots of health options!
• Employee Resource Groups
• Training and development programs
• Commute subsidy
• Competitive retirement/pension plans
• Paid leave for new parents
• Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Volunteering and donation matching program

• A track record of issuing clear written legal positions on unprecedented questions and defending them with senior stakeholders
• Licensed to practice law, with in-house or law-firm experience counseling technology product teams directly
• Demonstrated ownership of legal counseling for AI or machine-learning products, covering training-data rights, model licensing, output ownership and user-facing disclosures
• Working command of global privacy law — GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, COPPA — applied to SDKs, telemetry and advertising data flows, not just policy documentation
• Ability to draft and negotiate commercial technology agreements independently, from first redline to signature
• Experience in games, interactive entertainment, or a developer-platform business
• Mobile advertising or ad tech background — mediation, attribution, programmatic, or measurement
• Experience building legal self-service infrastructure for fast-moving product organizations
• Open-source licensing depth, especially license compatibility for datasets and embedded assets
• Hands-on EU AI Act or comparable emerging-AI-regulation assessment work
• Comfort using AI tools in your own practice