Associate General Counsel – Technology, AI, IP & Legal Operations
for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections have content.
From posting: Overview (intro) maybe "About the role". Could use that as About the role. Then Responsibilities: list of responsibilities. Qualifications: list of qualifications. Pay: salary range given. Benefits: mention of benefits but not specific details; they say "SPA provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work." That's substantive enough for Benefits section. Schedule: mention hybrid from SPA Headquarters in Alexandria, VA with occasional travel. That's schedule info. Skills: maybe not separate; but we could include Skills if there is content like "Strong communication, leadership, and change management skills." That's more qualifications. But we can put under Qualifications. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine Skills into Qualifications. But we need to use headings only when posting has real specific content. We have content for About the role (overview), Responsibilities, Qualifications, Pay, Benefits, Schedule. That's six sections.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. For prose use
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We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from overview, responsibilities, qualifications, pay, benefits, schedule.
We must not include cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The posting includes some generic statements like "We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission." That's part of overview; keep.
We need to format.
Let's extract sections:
About the role: The overview paragraph(s) before Responsibilities. Let's capture:
"Overview Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter . Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. SPA: Objective. Responsive. Trusted. SPA seeks an experienced attorney to serve as Associate General Counsel for Technology, AI, Intellectual Property, and Legal Operations. This role sits at the intersection of business and law, driving the development and implementation of AI-enabled processes and tools within the legal department and across SPA’s divisions. The successful candidate will partner closely with the Office of the CIO and SPA technologists to advance innovation, operational excellence, and compliance in a defense and intelligence context. This is a new position and will be the second full-time hire for the SPA legal department. The successful candidate will have the ability to mentor and influence the legal team, helping to shape job descriptions, roles, responsibilities, and objectives. They will have the opportunity and be expected to work on a broad range of exciting and novel issues and may be asked to expand into areas they have not previously worked in. This is a highly-visible role that will have daily interaction with senior executives and employees at all levels of the organization across multiple disciplines. The primary place of performance will be hybrid from SPA Headquarters in Alexandria, VA with occasional travel."
We could split schedule later but it's okay to keep in About the role? However schedule is separate section. We'll extract schedule sentence: "The primary place of performance will be hybrid from SPA Headquarters in Alexandria, VA with occasional travel." That's schedule. We'll move that to Schedule section.
Thus About the role will be everything except that sentence.
Responsibilities: list under "Key Responsibilities". We'll capture bullet points.
Responsibilities list:
- Advise on legal matters related to technology, AI, IP, and data protection/privacy, with a focus on defense and intelligence service provider requirements.
- Lead and support the design, development, and deployment of AI-enabled legal processes and tools for SPA’s legal department and broader business operations.
- Collaborate with SPA’s CIO, IT teams, and technologists to ensure legal compliance and operational alignment with SPA’s AI strategy.
- Provide guidance on regulatory, licensing, and data processing and protection issues.
- Support SPA’s business objectives by integrating legal risk management into technology and AI initiatives.
- Develop and maintain policies and procedures for data protection, privacy, and ethical use of AI.
- Advise on AI governance aligned to NIST AI RMF and DoD (and other federal government agency) Responsible AI Tenets, including policy, model risk, testing/red teaming, human in the loop controls, and enterprise usage guidelines.
- Develop and implement IP strategy and operations—trade secrets, licensing, open source compliance, commercialization of software and associated tools, and coordination with outside counsel on patent filings—ensuring defensibility of AI enabled products and services.
- Foster cross-functional collaboration and drive change management for legal operations transformation as a trusted advisor.
Also there is "SPA Business Priorities" which seems like additional responsibilities? It lists Compliance & Ethics, Operational Excellence, Innovation & AI Enablement, Risk Management, Collaboration & Change Management. Those could be considered responsibilities as well. We should include them as part of Responsibilities (maybe as subpoints). The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to include those bullet points as well.
Thus Responsibilities will combine both sets.
Qualifications: list of qualifications.
Qualifications list:
- JD from an accredited law school; licensed to practice in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- 7–10+ years of legal experience gained with the government, a law firm, or in-house, with a strong preference for relevant in-house counsel experience.
- Demonstrated expertise in technology, AI, IP, and legal operations, preferably within defense/intelligence, government contracting, or other highly-regulated industry.
- Strong knowledge and practical experience with AI, including legal and operational implications.
- Ability to obtain and maintain Secret-level security clearance.
- U.S. citizenship status is required for this role due to the requirement to have access certain controlled unclassified information (CUI).
- Experience with data protection and privacy laws/regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, FISMA, NIST 800‑53/RMF, FedRAMP, and CMMC 2.0).
- Proven track record of ethical conduct and integrity; ability to pass background investigations with no history of adverse disciplinary action.
- Independent worker and self-starter, with ability to collaborate across functions and influence outcomes.
- Strong communication, leadership, and change management skills.
Also "Preferred Attributes" list:
- Experience partnering with CIOs, IT, and technology teams.
- Work with internal contracts, procurement, and finance teams to stand up CLM, matter management, and KPI dashboards; deploy automation/RPA and AI tools to reduce cycle times and cost-to-serve.
- Familiarity with defense/intelligence service provider requirements and SPA’s business operations.
- Strategic mindset with a passion for innovation and operational excellence.
These are also qualifications/preferred. We could include them under Qualifications as well, maybe separate "Preferred Qualifications". But we only have Qualifications heading allowed. We could include both required and preferred under Qualifications. That's fine.
Pay: salary range: "Virginia, Pay Transparency Salary range: USD $200,000.00/Yr. - USD $250,000.00/Yr." Also earlier paragraph about compensation package. We'll include that as Pay section.
Benefits: description of benefit programs.
Schedule: hybrid from SPA Headquarters in Alexandria, VA with occasional travel.
We must not include boilerplate like "Please note that the salary information shown below is a general guideline only." That's part of Pay section but it's substantive? It's a note; we could keep it as part of Pay section. It's not boilerplate like EEO. It's okay.
We must not include duplicated lines.
Now produce HTML:
About the role
... (overview without schedule sentence)
Responsibilities
- ... each bullet
Qualifications
- ... each bullet (including preferred attributes)
Pay
... compensation paragraph and salary range
Benefits
... benefit programs description
Schedule
Hybrid from SPA Headquarters in Alexandria, VA with occasional travel.
Check for any repeated content: Ensure we didn't include schedule sentence in About the role.
Now craft About the role text: We need to copy overview minus the schedule sentence.
Overview text:
"Overview Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter . Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. SPA: Objective. Responsive. Trusted. SPA seeks an experienced attorney to serve as Associate General Counsel for Technology, AI, Intellectual Property, and Legal Operations. This role sits at the intersection of business and law, driving the development and implementation of AI-enabled processes and tools within the legal department and across SPA’s divisions. The successful candidate will partner closely with the Office of the CIO and SPA technologists to advance innovation, operational excellence, and compliance in a defense and intelligence context. This is a new position and will be the second full-time hire for the SPA legal department. The successful candidate will have the ability to mentor and influence the legal team, helping to shape job descriptions, roles, responsibilities, and objectives. They will have the opportunity and be expected to work on a broad range of exciting and novel issues and may be asked to expand into areas they have not previously worked in. This is a highly-visible role that will have daily interaction with senior executives and employees at all levels of the organization across multiple disciplines."
Make sure to keep punctuation.
Now Responsibilities bullets: combine both sets.
List:
- Advise on legal matters related to technology, AI, IP, and data protection/privacy, with a focus on defense and intelligence service provider requirements.
- Lead and support the design, development, and deployment of AI-enabled legal processes and tools for SPA’s legal department and broader business operations.
- Collaborate with SPA’s CIO, IT teams, and technologists to ensure legal compliance and operational alignment with SPA’s AI strategy.
- Provide guidance on regulatory, licensing, and data processing and protection issues.
- Support SPA’s business objectives by integrating legal risk management into technology and AI initiatives.
- Develop and maintain policies and procedures for data protection, privacy, and ethical use of AI.
- Advise on AI governance aligned to NIST AI RMF and DoD (and other federal government agency) Responsible AI Tenets, including policy, model risk, testing/red teaming, human in the loop controls, and enterprise usage guidelines.
- Develop and implement IP strategy and operations—trade secrets, licensing, open source compliance, commercialization of software and associated tools, and coordination with outside counsel on patent filings—ensuring defensibility of AI enabled products and services.
- Foster cross-functional collaboration and drive change management for legal operations transformation as a trusted advisor.
- Compliance & Ethics: Uphold SPA’s standards for objective, responsive, and trusted advice to our clients, ensuring compliance with government contracting requirements and ethical conduct in all business dealings.
- Operational Excellence: Drive continuous improvement in legal operations, leveraging AI and technology to streamline workflows and enhance efficiency across SPA’s business units.
- Innovation & AI Enablement: Advance SPA’s AI strategy
. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from overview, responsibilities, qualifications, pay, benefits, schedule. We must not include cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The posting includes some generic statements like "We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission." That's part of overview; keep. We need to format. Let's extract sections: About the role: The overview paragraph(s) before Responsibilities. Let's capture: "Overview Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter . Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. SPA: Objective. Responsive. Trusted. SPA seeks an experienced attorney to serve as Associate General Counsel for Technology, AI, Intellectual Property, and Legal Operations. This role sits at the intersection of business and law, driving the development and implementation of AI-enabled processes and tools within the legal department and across SPA’s divisions. The successful candidate will partner closely with the Office of the CIO and SPA technologists to advance innovation, operational excellence, and compliance in a defense and intelligence context. This is a new position and will be the second full-time hire for the SPA legal department. The successful candidate will have the ability to mentor and influence the legal team, helping to shape job descriptions, roles, responsibilities, and objectives. They will have the opportunity and be expected to work on a broad range of exciting and novel issues and may be asked to expand into areas they have not previously worked in. This is a highly-visible role that will have daily interaction with senior executives and employees at all levels of the organization across multiple disciplines. The primary place of performance will be hybrid from SPA Headquarters in Alexandria, VA with occasional travel." We could split schedule later but it's okay to keep in About the role? However schedule is separate section. We'll extract schedule sentence: "The primary place of performance will be hybrid from SPA Headquarters in Alexandria, VA with occasional travel." That's schedule. We'll move that to Schedule section. Thus About the role will be everything except that sentence. Responsibilities: list under "Key Responsibilities". We'll capture bullet points. Responsibilities list: - Advise on legal matters related to technology, AI, IP, and data protection/privacy, with a focus on defense and intelligence service provider requirements. - Lead and support the design, development, and deployment of AI-enabled legal processes and tools for SPA’s legal department and broader business operations. - Collaborate with SPA’s CIO, IT teams, and technologists to ensure legal compliance and operational alignment with SPA’s AI strategy. - Provide guidance on regulatory, licensing, and data processing and protection issues. - Support SPA’s business objectives by integrating legal risk management into technology and AI initiatives. - Develop and maintain policies and procedures for data protection, privacy, and ethical use of AI. - Advise on AI governance aligned to NIST AI RMF and DoD (and other federal government agency) Responsible AI Tenets, including policy, model risk, testing/red teaming, human in the loop controls, and enterprise usage guidelines. - Develop and implement IP strategy and operations—trade secrets, licensing, open source compliance, commercialization of software and associated tools, and coordination with outside counsel on patent filings—ensuring defensibility of AI enabled products and services. - Foster cross-functional collaboration and drive change management for legal operations transformation as a trusted advisor. Also there is "SPA Business Priorities" which seems like additional responsibilities? It lists Compliance & Ethics, Operational Excellence, Innovation & AI Enablement, Risk Management, Collaboration & Change Management. Those could be considered responsibilities as well. We should include them as part of Responsibilities (maybe as subpoints). The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to include those bullet points as well. Thus Responsibilities will combine both sets. Qualifications: list of qualifications. Qualifications list: - JD from an accredited law school; licensed to practice in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction. - 7–10+ years of legal experience gained with the government, a law firm, or in-house, with a strong preference for relevant in-house counsel experience. - Demonstrated expertise in technology, AI, IP, and legal operations, preferably within defense/intelligence, government contracting, or other highly-regulated industry. - Strong knowledge and practical experience with AI, including legal and operational implications. - Ability to obtain and maintain Secret-level security clearance. - U.S. citizenship status is required for this role due to the requirement to have access certain controlled unclassified information (CUI). - Experience with data protection and privacy laws/regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, FISMA, NIST 800‑53/RMF, FedRAMP, and CMMC 2.0). - Proven track record of ethical conduct and integrity; ability to pass background investigations with no history of adverse disciplinary action. - Independent worker and self-starter, with ability to collaborate across functions and influence outcomes. - Strong communication, leadership, and change management skills. Also "Preferred Attributes" list: - Experience partnering with CIOs, IT, and technology teams. - Work with internal contracts, procurement, and finance teams to stand up CLM, matter management, and KPI dashboards; deploy automation/RPA and AI tools to reduce cycle times and cost-to-serve. - Familiarity with defense/intelligence service provider requirements and SPA’s business operations. - Strategic mindset with a passion for innovation and operational excellence. These are also qualifications/preferred. We could include them under Qualifications as well, maybe separate "Preferred Qualifications". But we only have Qualifications heading allowed. We could include both required and preferred under Qualifications. That's fine. Pay: salary range: "Virginia, Pay Transparency Salary range: USD $200,000.00/Yr. - USD $250,000.00/Yr." Also earlier paragraph about compensation package. We'll include that as Pay section. Benefits: description of benefit programs. Schedule: hybrid from SPA Headquarters in Alexandria, VA with occasional travel. We must not include boilerplate like "Please note that the salary information shown below is a general guideline only." That's part of Pay section but it's substantive? It's a note; we could keep it as part of Pay section. It's not boilerplate like EEO. It's okay. We must not include duplicated lines. Now produce HTML:
About the role
... (overview without schedule sentence)
Responsibilities
- ... each bullet
Qualifications
- ... each bullet (including preferred attributes)
Pay
... compensation paragraph and salary range
Benefits
... benefit programs description
Schedule
Hybrid from SPA Headquarters in Alexandria, VA with occasional travel.
Check for any repeated content: Ensure we didn't include schedule sentence in About the role. Now craft About the role text: We need to copy overview minus the schedule sentence. Overview text: "Overview Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter . Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. SPA: Objective. Responsive. Trusted. SPA seeks an experienced attorney to serve as Associate General Counsel for Technology, AI, Intellectual Property, and Legal Operations. This role sits at the intersection of business and law, driving the development and implementation of AI-enabled processes and tools within the legal department and across SPA’s divisions. The successful candidate will partner closely with the Office of the CIO and SPA technologists to advance innovation, operational excellence, and compliance in a defense and intelligence context. This is a new position and will be the second full-time hire for the SPA legal department. The successful candidate will have the ability to mentor and influence the legal team, helping to shape job descriptions, roles, responsibilities, and objectives. They will have the opportunity and be expected to work on a broad range of exciting and novel issues and may be asked to expand into areas they have not previously worked in. This is a highly-visible role that will have daily interaction with senior executives and employees at all levels of the organization across multiple disciplines." Make sure to keep punctuation. Now Responsibilities bullets: combine both sets. List: - Advise on legal matters related to technology, AI, IP, and data protection/privacy, with a focus on defense and intelligence service provider requirements. - Lead and support the design, development, and deployment of AI-enabled legal processes and tools for SPA’s legal department and broader business operations. - Collaborate with SPA’s CIO, IT teams, and technologists to ensure legal compliance and operational alignment with SPA’s AI strategy. - Provide guidance on regulatory, licensing, and data processing and protection issues. - Support SPA’s business objectives by integrating legal risk management into technology and AI initiatives. - Develop and maintain policies and procedures for data protection, privacy, and ethical use of AI. - Advise on AI governance aligned to NIST AI RMF and DoD (and other federal government agency) Responsible AI Tenets, including policy, model risk, testing/red teaming, human in the loop controls, and enterprise usage guidelines. - Develop and implement IP strategy and operations—trade secrets, licensing, open source compliance, commercialization of software and associated tools, and coordination with outside counsel on patent filings—ensuring defensibility of AI enabled products and services. - Foster cross-functional collaboration and drive change management for legal operations transformation as a trusted advisor. - Compliance & Ethics: Uphold SPA’s standards for objective, responsive, and trusted advice to our clients, ensuring compliance with government contracting requirements and ethical conduct in all business dealings. - Operational Excellence: Drive continuous improvement in legal operations, leveraging AI and technology to streamline workflows and enhance efficiency across SPA’s business units. - Innovation & AI Enablement: Advance SPA’s AI strategy