Sr. Counsel

Troveo AI; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work US

Equity ownership

Health benefits

Unlimited PTO

Modern tech stack

Job summary

Troveo AI is seeking a Senior Counsel to join the senior leadership team and drive transactional legal work for data and content licensing. You will draft, negotiate, and close agreements with content owners and AI platforms, handling complex multi-party structures and ensuring IP protection.

You will guide on data privacy, regulatory strategy, and vendor negotiations, while shaping an AI-native legal function and coordinating with outside counsel.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of transactional experience, including meaningful time at a major law firm; in-house experience at a technology or media company a plus.
• Deep commercial contracts background centered on IP licensing, content/data licensing, or technology transactions.
• Proven ability to run negotiations independently — setting posture, holding positions, and knowing when to trade.
• Strong drafting command of license scope, sublicensing mechanics, indemnity caps, audit rights, term and survival.
• Familiarity with AI/ML training data issues, or ability to get up to speed fast.
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI tooling in legal practice.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate and close data license and sublicense agreements with AI labs, data platforms, and resellers; manage redline cycles and close open issues.
• Own and evolve inbound template suite (content and business data license agreements, riders, annexes), with outside counsel on major revisions.
• Structure complex multi-party arrangements: pass-through sublicensing, consent instruments, and back-to-back partner agreements.
• Advise on copyright/IP issues at the frontier of AI training, including fair use, exclusivity, and provenance representations.
• Counsel on data privacy and regulatory strategy, including PII handling and state data-broker regimes.
• Handle contractor, services, and MSA/SOW agreements where Troveo is hiring principal.
• Manage outside counsel efficiently on specialist matters.
• Help build a modern, AI-native legal function with AI-assisted contract review and knowledge tooling.

Skills

Transactional experience

IP licensing

Contract drafting

Negotiation

In-house experience

AI/Data privacy

Independent negotiation

Education

JD

Tools

Contract management systems

Job description

Senior Counsel

About Troveo

Troveo builds the data platform that AI labs and model builders need to train the next generation of models. We have created the world's largest licensed platform of scarce, proprietary data for AI, spanning video, audio, text, and business workflows.

Troveo indexes, enriches, and packages this high-quality data into formats ready for training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and agentic use cases. Backed by top investors, we’re a small, high-impact team solving one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI development.

Role Summary

As Senior Counsel, you will be a member of the company’s senior leadership team, involved in both company legal strategy and day-to-day execution as a hands-on deal lawyer at a company where legal work is core to our business.

You will draft, negotiate, and close data and content license agreements end to end, including inbound agreements with content owners, outbound agreements with AI companies and data platforms (frequently on counterparty paper), and the multi-party structures in between.

Key Responsibilities

• Negotiate and close outbound data license and sublicense agreements with AI labs, data platforms, and resellers — managing redline cycles on counterparty forms and driving open issues (liability, indemnification, insurance, IP scope) to close
• Own and evolve Troveo's inbound template suite (content and business data license agreements, riders, annexes), partnering with outside counsel on major revisions
• Structure complex multi-party arrangements: pass-through sublicensing, consent instruments for downstream transactions, and back-to-back partner agreements where upstream and downstream terms must align
• Advise on copyright and IP issues at the frontier of AI training, including fair use, exclusivity and corpus-segregation obligations, and provenance representations
• Counsel on data privacy and regulatory strategy, including PII handling, de-identification structures, and state data-broker regimes
• Handle contractor, services, and MSA/SOW agreements where Troveo is the hiring principal
• Manage outside counsel efficiently on specialist matters
• Help build a modern, AI-native legal function — we invest heavily in AI-assisted contract review and knowledge tooling across our agreement corpus, and you'll use and improve these tools daily

Qualifications

• JD and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar
• 7+ years of transactional experience, including meaningful time at a major law firm; in-house experience at a technology or media company a plus
• Deep commercial contracts background centered on IP licensing, content/data licensing, or technology transactions
• Proven ability to run negotiations independently — setting posture, holding positions, and knowing when to trade
• Strong drafting command of the terms that decide these deals: license scope, sublicensing mechanics, indemnity caps, audit rights, term and survival
• Comfort operating on counterparty paper and reconciling mismatched terms across a deal chain
• Familiarity with AI/ML training data issues, or the ability to get up to speed fast
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI tooling in legal practice

What We Offer

• Compensation Target: $200K-$250K+ base DOE and location
  Comprehensive Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• PTO & Paid Holidays: Unlimited PTO with encouragement to actually use it
• Remote First Policy: Work from anywhere in the US (with occasional team offsites)
• Equity Ownership: Competitive equity package with clear growth potential as we scale
• Modern Tech Stack & Tools: Budget for the best equipment and software
• Strong Culture: High-trust, low-ego environment focused on impact, transparency, and work-life balance
• We believe great work happens when people are supported, challenged, and given ownership.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Troveo is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.