Senior Director, AI Product Counsel & Governance

Handshake; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k match

Equity program

Professional development stipend

Parental leave

Job summary

Handshake seeks an AI Product Counsel at Director or Senior Director level to lead legal work across our AI products and platforms. You will partner with product, research, engineering, and go-to-market teams from early design through launch and deployment for enterprise and career-network offerings.

You will address novel questions around AI training, data provenance, privacy, and IP, while building scalable governance and contracts programs to support frontier labs and enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of legal experience with significant in-house product/technology teams
• Experience collaborating with commercial counsel on complex, novel deals
• Deep familiarity with privacy, intellectual property law, and AI-related regulations
• Sound judgment under ambiguity and ability to explain risk decisions clearly
• Exceptional communication skills and business judgment balancing risk with goals
• Strong technical fluency and comfort partnering with engineers and product managers
• JD and US state bar membership
• Experience with data licensing and data provenance issues
• Experience with AI, ML, or data products or frontier AI labs
• Familiarity with AI risk management, bias audits, or AI safety issues

Responsibilities

• Embed with product, research, engineering, and GTM teams as day-to-day legal partner from design to launch
• Advise on novel legal questions raised by AI training and evaluation data products and modalities
• Partner with commercial counsel to structure novel deals and scalable programs
• Advise on platform contractor experience end-to-end: terms, onboarding, identity verification, controls, payouts
• Develop scalable product counseling and AI governance workflows, playbooks, and risk documentation

Skills

Legal strategy

In-house product/tech experience

AI regulatory & privacy knowledge

IP and data law

Risk assessment & judgment

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication & presentation

Technical fluency with engineers/repo

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Bar admission (US state)

Tools

Contract drafting/negotiation

Job description

Handshake seeks an AI Product Counsel at Director or Senior Director level to lead legal work across our AI products and platforms. You will partner with product, research, engineering, and go-to-market teams from early design through launch and deployment for enterprise and career-network offerings.

You will address novel questions around AI training, data provenance, privacy, and IP, while building scalable governance and contracts programs to support frontier labs and enterprise customers.