Developer of AI systems intended to automate tasks and decision-making processes. The company's platform focuses on building AI models, capable of handling complex and unstructured data while ensuring accuracy and transparency, enabling businesses to... Backed by DCVC (Data Collective).
About the role
You’ll be TypeSafe’s first legal hire, building and leading our legal function as the company grows. You’ll work directly with our founders and across engineering, product, and go-to-market to help us launch products, work with customers, partners, and vendors, and make thoughtful decisions about risk. Your foundation should be in commercial work, product counseling, and privacy. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Have at least 10 - 15 years of relevant legal experience, including meaningful in-house experience at a growing technology company
- Bring strong legal training, ideally including experience at a leading law firm, and a track record of applying it effectively inside a business
- Have substantial commercial contracting experience and can counsel independently on product and privacy matters, with good judgment about the limits of their expertise
- Have helped a company scale its legal operations and know how to build processes that fit the company’s stage
- Are curious about AI and willing to learn how our technology works, how customers use it, and where the legal questions arise
- Make practical decisions under uncertainty, distinguish material risks from manageable ones, and consider operational and commercial solutions alongside contractual protections
More about this role
TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software by combining the intelligence of LLMs with the efficiency and reliability of code into a new shape of AI: System One Models.
TypeSafe AI recently launched its first public model, Jev. Adoption has been incredibly rapid, and we now count around one-third of the Fortune 500 as users.
We’re a small, fast-moving team from OpenAI, Google Brain, and Meta/FAIR, backed by top-tier investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia.
You’ll be TypeSafe’s first legal hire, building and leading our legal function as the company grows. You’ll work directly with our founders and across engineering, product, and go-to-market to help us launch products, work with customers, partners, and vendors, and make thoughtful decisions about risk.
Your foundation should be in commercial work, product counseling, and privacy. You’ll also own the broader legal agenda, handling matters yourself where you have the expertise and bringing in specialists where needed.
This is a hands-on role with substantial judgment and ownership. You should be comfortable negotiating a customer...
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