Senior AI/ML Product Counsel & Compliance Leader

Cohesity, Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 232,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Vacation

Paid holidays

401(k)

Life Insurance

Job summary

Cohesity, Inc. seeks an experienced attorney to lead AI/ML legal matters within the in-house Legal team, reporting directly to the VP of IP&P. You will support engineering and business teams as they develop AI/ML foundation models, tools, and data.

The role demands 10+ years of legal experience, a JD, and substantive AI/ML expertise, with strong collaboration across engineering, product security, privacy, and other legal teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of legal experience in a law firm and corporate environment.
• Substantive AI/ML technical and legal expertise.
• Registered patent attorney with in-house patent experience preferred.
• Open source licensing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for all AI/ML legal issues, coordinating cross-functionally, as well as within legal.
• Influence product development plans related to legal and compliance use cases that benefit our customers.
• Collaborate with patent team to implement IP protection strategy for AI/ML innovations.
• Collaborate with OSS and transactional legal teams to ensure license compliance.
• Collaborate across legal regarding adjacent contractual, privacy and regulatory implications.
• Advise/negotiate on AI/ML contractual provisions and create AI/ML playbook provisions.
• Build processes and tools to scale compliance support for AI/ML products and services.
• Prepare and provide AI/ML trainings to internal stakeholders.
• Counsel on legal risk mitigation through technical architecture and product design.
• Develop strong relationships with cross-functional partners to protect products and services.
• Drive special projects to enable the IP and legal team to serve partners.
• Provide executive roll-up information on industry trends and risks.
• Present to executives and Board members with the CLO and senior legal leaders.

Skills

AI/ML IP expertise

Cross-functional collaboration

Contract negotiation

Patent strategy

Regulatory awareness

Education

JD degree

Engineering or CS background

Job description

Cohesity, Inc. seeks an experienced attorney to lead AI/ML legal matters within the in-house Legal team, reporting directly to the VP of IP&P. You will support engineering and business teams as they develop AI/ML foundation models, tools, and data.

The role demands 10+ years of legal experience, a JD, and substantive AI/ML expertise, with strong collaboration across engineering, product security, privacy, and other legal teams.