Product Counsel Lead

About Applied Intuition

Founded in 2017, Applied Intuition, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company valued at $15 billion. We create the digital infrastructure for physical AI, serving automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture industries through tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy.

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo, Applied Intuition is committed to flexible work arrangements to support employee needs.

About The Role

We are seeking a Product Counsel Lead to join our legal team. This role combines internal and external responsibilities, focusing on strategic legal guidance for Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams on issues like integrations, privacy, copyright, accessibility, and emerging technologies.

• Provide strategic legal guidance on a wide range of issues, including integrations, privacy, copyright, accessibility, and emerging technologies.
• Support cross-functional projects related to compliance, safety, and IP protection, ensuring all legal requirements are integrated into product development workflows.
• Review product integrations to ensure compliance with contractual obligations, data protection laws, intellectual property rights, and other relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
• Translate legal advice into actionable guidance for cutting-edge product and engineering teams, often under tight deadlines.
• Manage our patenting program, facilitate invention harvesting sessions, and advise on IP strategy.
• Build systems, policies, and processes, including guides and playbooks, that address risk and ensure compliance while supporting efficient innovation.
• Review and edit customer contracts, in-bound contracts, marketing materials, and other external-facing documents, ensuring they are compliant, user-friendly, and aligned with Applied Intuition’s policies.
• Proactively manage other duties that may arise as part of a small legal team in a high growth start-up.
• Collaborate with external sources, regulators, and industry groups as needed to stay current on global legal and regulatory developments specifically relevant to Autonomy and AI.
• Aid in M&A transactions.

Requirements

• Experience working with internal engineering, product, design, security, privacy, and marketing teams throughout the product development life cycle, advising on regulatory requirements and how to mitigate risks for new technologies.
• Counsel business partners on domestic and international laws, regulations, and best practices for implementing and ensuring ongoing compliance.
• Demeanor to thrive in a fast-paced, execution-focused environment, requiring exceptional organizational skills, juggling priorities, and adhering to strict deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to advance large, complex projects.
• 8+ years' of law firm and/or in-house experience, preferably in technology companies, with the activities described above.
• J.D. degree from an accredited law school and active membership in one state bar.
• Nice to have: experience with some combination of law firm and in-house work, computer science or engineering degree, familiarity with machine learning, autonomy, generative models, and products, privacy certifications (CIPP-E, CIPP-US, CIPM), or desire to obtain one.

Qualifications

• Business-minded lawyer and tech geek focused on execution and comfortable making substantive and creative decisions.
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and be comfortable working in ambiguity as you will be operating in the dynamic intersection of law and new technologies.
• Willingness to work in a high-growth startup environment.

Benefits

At Applied Intuition, you will receive a competitive compensation package, including base salary, equity, and benefits. Base salary is a single component of the total compensation package, which may also include equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units, comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage, 401k retirement benefits with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, interview performance, and the level and scope of the position.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this full-time position in the location listed is: $200,000 - $300,000 USD annually.