Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
About the role
As AI Product Counsel, you’ll lead legal work across Handshake to build and ship AI products and platforms, from human data infrastructure for frontier AI labs to our enterprise offerings and career network. Handshake operates at the frontier of the AI industry and you will help solve novel legal and business challenges at the intersection of AI model training, evaluation and deployment, intellectual property and data, and the evolution of work in the AI economy. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- JD and membership in at least one U.S. state bar
- 8+ years of legal experience, with significant in-house experience supporting product, platform, or emerging technology teams
- Deep familiarity with privacy and intellectual property law, and with the laws governing AI and platform products
- Track record of leading and scaling product counseling and legal review programs in fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Experience working alongside commercial counsel on complex, novel commercial relationships
- Strong technical fluency and curiosity, you enjoy partnering with engineers, researchers and product managers to understand how things work
More about this role
Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.
In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We’ve grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.
Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel
Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions
Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders
Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue
Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3-5x...
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