Senior Counsel, AI & Product Data

Abridge; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Abridge is seeking an Associate GC, Product (Data Products, Machine Learning, and AI) to serve as the go-to legal advisor for teams building our AI and ML models and products. You will partner with product, compliance, and privacy teams to navigate frontier AI regulation and responsible AI principles.

Based in San Francisco or New York City, this role combines legal leadership with strategic contribution to cutting-edge AI initiatives, including model development, data governance, and liability

Qualifications

• 12+ years of legal experience, including 6+ years counseling on AI, machine learning, or other emerging technology products.
• Prior in-house experience is required.
• Creativity in navigating novel legal matters, including building new processes, language, and frameworks to meet the needs of a fast-moving company in an emerging industry.
• Working knowledge of AI-specific legal issues, including IP and copyright in AI-generated content, training data rights, model liability, and responsible AI principles.
• Proven ability to translate complex regulatory and technical AI concepts into clear, practical guidance for non-legal, technical audiences.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity, tight timelines, and a high volume of novel legal questions with no settled precedent.
• Strong sense of ownership, intellectual curiosity about technology, and sound judgment in ambiguous situations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as go-to counsel and partner for teams building Abridge's core AI models and products, advising on legal issues that span model development, agentic workflows, multimodal outputs, and downstream clinical use.
• Identify, address, and design practical mitigations for AI-specific legal risks, including model behavior, output accuracy, IP, data provenance and training rights, and liability for AI-generated content.
• Develop and scale flexible legal processes, frameworks, and contract language suited to the pace of frontier AI development, rather than relying solely on precedent from other industries.
• Serve as an internal expert on AI legal and policy matters, helping shape Abridge's positions on emerging AI regulation and representing those positions with external counsel, regulators, and industry groups as needed.
• Support privacy impact assessments, model risk assessments, and data governance frameworks specific to AI training, fine-tuning, and deployment.
• Partner with legal, product, and compliance stakeholders on AI principles such as transparency, accountability, and human oversight.

Skills

AI law

In-house experience

Regulatory guidance

Legal writing

Cross-functional collaboration

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

Abridge is seeking an Associate GC, Product (Data Products, Machine Learning, and AI) to serve as the go-to legal advisor for teams building our AI and ML models and products. You will partner with product, compliance, and privacy teams to navigate frontier AI regulation and responsible AI principles.

Based in San Francisco or New York City, this role combines legal leadership with strategic contribution to cutting-edge AI initiatives, including model development, data governance, and liability