Legal Counsel (Privacy and Contracts)

Remote Hybrid: Persons in these roles are expected to spend part of their time on-site in our Seattle offices and may occasionally work remotely from their home in the Greater Seattle area. On-site requirements vary based on position and team. If you have questions about Hybrid work arrangements for this role, please ask your recruiter.

Compensation: 193,210 - $309,140

Legal Counsel (Privacy and Contracts)

Who You Are:

You are an agile thinker who is energized by creative problem solving and building things. You are able to build and manage a privacy program that is tailored to a group’s business needs and maximizes business results. You have an interest in cross-border legal issues such as FCPA, Export Control, and remote employees. You also really like reviewing and negotiating a broad range of contracts: NDAs to strategic partnership agreements.

Who We Are: 

We are an existing legal department of three lawyers and one contract and procurement manager. We are collegial and collaborative. We like to make up fun project names for our strategic initiatives. We work primarily remotely but meet often via video chat. We all work with a large amount of autonomy. As a team, we are slightly more pro-dog than pro-cat. We are passionate about AI2’s mission.

Your Next Challenge:

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

PRIVACY:

• Advise on privacy issues regarding business products, services and processes to ensure they are executed in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements (e.g. data security, identity theft, opt-out requests)
• Track legislation and update stakeholders
• Lead development, implementation and management of privacy program and related policies
• Oversee specific privacy policy and compliance areas for the collection, storage, use, distribution and disposal of customer and employee data
• Oversee investigations of alleged privacy breaches

CONTRACTS: 

• Draft and negotiate a wide range of legal agreements with both governmental and non-governmental organizations
• Provide support across AI2’s activities ensuring that legal issues, contracts, disputes, and complex transactions are conducted within the due diligence of the legal framework

INTERNATIONAL:

• Contribute to the legal team’s research and understanding of regulatory and compliance issues involved in dealings or engagements with international parties

What You’ll Need:

Required

• 7+ years of legal experience in a corporate environment
• Self-starter: Does not need daily directions or validation to make decisions
• Skilled in working with ambiguity
• Start-up mentality; adaptable, can pivot quickly
• Comfortable taking risks 
• Ability to adjust rapidly to new strategies and approaches for building support in a fast-moving environment
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills: polished, concise, catered messages to different audiences
• Ability to build strong relationships with leaders at all levels to obtain successful outcomes and move the business forward
• Google Suite product experience
• Ability to work on complex issues where problems are not clearly defined and where fundamental principles do not fully apply

Preferred

• Experience in and/or interest to learn international and cross-border issues such as:
• Export Control
• FCPA
• International employee mobility
• Experience and/or interest in project management to establish or improve processes and streamline legal team efforts with existing workflows in the company

Education/Certifications

• Minimum Degree required: JD
• Licensed to practice law in Washington State
• Preferred certifications: CIPM and CIPP/E 

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• Occasionally required to remain seated in a normal position for long periods of time.
• Regularly required to walk short distances
• Regularly required to maintain balance while walking, standing, crouching, or running.
• Routinely required to reach up and out with hands and arms.

A little more about AI2:

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence is a non-profit research institute in Seattle founded by Paul Allen. The core mission of AI2 is to contribute to humanity through high-impact research in artificial intelligence. 

In addition to AI2’s core mission, we also aim to contribute to humanity through our treatment of each member of the AI2 Team. Some highlights are:

• We are a learning organization – because everything AI2 does is ground-breaking, we are learning every day. Similarly, through weekly AI2 Academy lectures, a wide variety of world-class AI experts as guest speakers, and our commitment to your personal on-going education, AI2 is place where you will have opportunities to continue learning alongside your coworkers. 
• We value diversity - We seek to hire, support, and promote people from all genders, ethnicities, and all levels of experience regardless of age. We particularly encourage applications from women, non-binary individuals, people of color, members of the LGBTQA+ community, and people with disabilities of any kind. 
• We value inclusion - We understand the value that people's individual experiences and perspectives can bring to an organization, and we are building a culture in which all voices are heard, respected and considered.
• We emphasize a healthy work/life balance – we believe our team members are happiest and most productive when their work/life balance is optimized. While we value powerful research results which drive our mission forward, we also value dinner with family, weekend time, and vacation time. We offer generous paid vacation and sick leave as well as family leave.
• We are collaborative and transparent – we consider ourselves a team, all moving with a common purpose. We are quick to cheer our successes, and even quicker to share and jointly problem solve our failures.
• We are in Seattle – and our office is on the water! We have mountains, we have lakes, we have four seasons, we bike to work, we have a vibrant theater scene, and we have so much else. We even have kayaks for you to paddle right outside our front door. We welcome interest from applicants from outside of the United States.
• We are friendly– chances are you will like every one of the 200+ (and growing) people who work here. We do. 

AI2 is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. You may view the related Know Your Rights compliance poster and the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision by clicking on their corresponding links.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities to the full extent required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you feel you need a reasonable accommodation pursuant to the ADA, you are encouraged to contact us at recruiting@allenai.org

• Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and an employee assistance program.
• Team members are able to enroll in our voluntary life insurance program, our voluntary accidental death and dismemberment program, our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
• Team members are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
• Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and are eligible to receive up to $150 reimbursement for health and wellbeing expenses per month.
• Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses and can participate in the long-term incentive plan.

Note: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the team members(s) of this position. Team members will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the team member(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.