Head of Legal
TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for software automation. Its flagship System One model, Jev, provides typed decisions, probabilities, and confidence scores through an API and SDKs for developers building automated workflows.
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About TypeSafe AI
TypeSafe AI develops System One models for fast, structured decisions that software can consume directly rather than generated text. Its flagship model, Jev, evaluates supplied state against typed Choice, Score, and Noul questions, returning constrained results, probabilities, and confidence values. The company provides an API, Python and JavaScript SDKs, developer documentation, a console playground, and tools intended for developers building reliable automated software workflows.
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About the Role
You will build and lead the legal function, partnering with founders and stakeholders across engineering, product, and go-to-market. You will negotiate commercial agreements, advise on product and privacy matters, establish legal processes, monitor relevant regulations, manage outside counsel, and provide practical guidance on corporate, employment, governance, and intellectual-property matters.
Requirements
- At least 10–15 years of relevant legal experience
- Meaningful in-house experience at a growing technology company
- Strong legal training, ideally including experience at a leading law firm
- Commercial contracting experience
- Ability to independently counsel on product and privacy matters
- Experience scaling legal operations and building appropriate processes
- Admission to practice in a U.S. jurisdiction
- Eligibility to practice as in-house counsel in California
Responsibilities
- Lead customer and partner negotiations for enterprise agreements, API distribution and reseller arrangements, data processing agreements, and vendor contracts
- Build contract templates and negotiation playbooks
- Counsel technical teams on product design, data use, retention, international processing, and security commitments
- Translate legal requirements into implementable decisions and policies
- Identify laws, regulatory developments, and industry practices affecting products and business
- Establish contract intake, approval, signing, and management processes
- Build legal guidance and self-service tools for routine matters
- Manage employment, corporate, governance, intellectual property, and other legal matters
- Choose and manage outside counsel, priorities, and budgets
- Provide recommendations on legal exposure, commercial stakes, and practical alternatives
Benefits
- Equity
- 100% covered health insurance
- Daily lunch and dinner
- Visa sponsorship
- 401(k) plans
