Assistant General Counsel (Product, Privacy & Intellectual Property)

Join Ironclad, a leading legal tech company, as the Assistant General Counsel for Product, Privacy, and Intellectual Property. In this role, you will lead key company initiatives, drive growth and operational excellence, and shape an AI-forward legal practice. You will serve as embedded product counsel, establish a predictable legal lane for AI features, and advise on privacy-sensitive product design and IP issues. This is an opportunity to be a power user at a cutting-edge legal tech company and have a direct impact on the product we build for the legal industry.

• Lead the Product, Privacy, and Intellectual Property legal function, serving as embedded product counsel for a portfolio of Ironclad products and features, with a focus on AI-enabled capabilities.
• Establish and improve a predictable legal lane for priority AI features, including intake, tiering, review gates, decision records, and escalation paths, while helping to operate and mature a scalable product-focused AI governance program.
• Advise on complex, ambiguous matters involving product design, data, AI systems, emerging regulation, IP, security, and commercial risk, while building or improving scalable legal programs, including governance frameworks, review processes, playbooks, templates, decision tools, training, or knowledge systems.

• Intellectual curiosity about AI and the future of legal work, paired with critical thinking about the useful business outcome, the necessary context, and the limits of any tool or analysis
• Demonstrated ability to advise on complex, ambiguous matters involving product design, data, AI systems, emerging regulation, IP, security, and commercial risk
• Consistently strong judgment: able to balance legal risk, customer trust, product usability, delivery timelines, and company goals; identify difficult decisions; and escalate appropriately
• Strong understanding of how AI products are built and operated, including model or provider selection, training and evaluation, benchmarking, retrieval, prompt or agentic workflows, human oversight, testing, monitoring, and change management
• Track record of leading high-stakes, cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders without relying on formal authority
• Experience building or improving scalable legal programs, including governance frameworks, review processes, playbooks, templates, decision tools, training, or knowledge systems
• JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership, with substantial legal experience spanning a leading law firm and high-growth technology company. 12+ years of legal experience preferred with at least 5 of those in-house
• Deep experience in at least one of product counseling or privacy/data protection
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to make complex issues understandable and actionable for technical and non-technical audiences
• High EQ, low ego, pragmatism, and a collaborative working style. You are comfortable moving quickly, learning in public, and improving the system as you go
• Ability to translate technical, legal, and regulatory complexity into clear recommendations, workable product requirements, and business decisions