Lead Counsel, Scale AI
Commercial
$227.2-284k
Training and validation data for AI applications
Be an early applicant
Training and validation data for AI applications
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$227.2-284k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a relentlessly curious, deliberately open-minded, pragmatic, and action-oriented commercial attorney who can negotiate complex agreements and effectively advise on legal risk — all while being a great teammate
- J.D. from an accredited law school and admission to the New York State Bar in good standing
- 5+ years of combined law firm and in-house experience with training in commercial agreements
- Experience partnering with Sales, guiding negotiation cycles, and closing high-impact revenue deals
- Experience drafting and negotiating complex enterprise licensing, services, and data processing agreements
- An ability to communicate clearly and concisely with business and technical audiences and effectively translate legal concepts for non-lawyers
- A collaborative and low-ego approach to working across the organization, with a "roll-up-your-sleeves" attitude towards tackling novel legal issues
- Deep interest in artificial intelligence, machine learning technology, generative AI, and AI applications
Desirable
- Experience working on IP and technology transactions at a large law firm
- Experience advising growth-stage technology companies regarding legal issues related to AI/machine learning and/or generative AI applications
- Product or privacy counseling experience
What the job involves
- Our Legal team works on exciting legal and commercial issues at the leading edge of artificial intelligence, generative AI, and machine learning technology
- This role will support our Enterprise business unit by negotiating complex revenue deals with Fortune 500 enterprise companies driving the development of agentic AI applications across industries including healthcare, insurance, financial services, and consumer goods and services
- You will join a creative and solutions-oriented team that collaborates internally with teams at Scale and externally with our customers
- This is an individual contributor role with significant scope and visibility that will run deals from end-to-end and help shape Scale's commercial legal function as it scales with the business
- If you enjoy solving novel and challenging problems and building strong teams and relationships while doing it, we'd love to hear from you!
- Draft, review, and negotiate master services agreements with Fortune 500 and other companies, working closely with our sales, product, and engineering organizations to close revenue deals
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of other agreements, including partnership, reseller and vendor agreements as well as data processing agreements
- Partner closely with our GTM teams to drive deals and the business forward
- Serve as a trusted legal advisor and business accelerator by providing practical legal counsel to sales, product, engineering, and marketing teams
- Assess legal risk and advise the business accordingly
- Design, implement, and iterate on policies and processes to manage legal and business risk on a global scale
Our take
When training AI models, lack of access to large scale, high quality, labelled data is often the barrier preventing machine learning teams from building something great. In fact, labelled data is even more essential than the algorithms themselves. Scale AI is solving this by providing easy access through developer APIs to a huge variety of labelled data sets covering a large range of areas within computer vision and natural language processing.
It seems that almost every company now is offering artificial intelligence enabled products to automate every aspect of our lives. So, by positioning themselves as the go-to source for high quality tagged data, Scale AI is in an excellent position as the AI sector continues it's exponential growth.
With innovative AI projects across a range of sectors including retail, energy, and healthcare, Scale AI is now a leader in the industry alongside OpenAI. It continues to forge partnerships with fintech tools and software engine developers such as Brex and Luminar to continue its evolution of digital markets.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2024
$1bn
SERIES F
Apr 2021
$325m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.6bn
Company benefits
- Health & Wellbeing: Our holistic approach to supporting Scaliens includes comprehensive health coverage, dental and vision insurance, mental healthcare services, and more. PTO policies and accommodating schedules ensure you’ll get time off when you need it to relax and recharge. Note that our offerings may vary by region as we strive to respond to the unique needs of Scaliens around the globe.
- Personal & Career Growth: Continuously learn and grow through annual learning & development stipend, attending leadership breakfasts, manager training, speaker series, and joining an ERG.
- Building Scale Community: We welcome guests to our offices, and you can expect to see Scalien families and friends around. Join local happy hours, and accept invites to game nights, book clubs, and many other employee-led community events.
- Parental Support: Balancing work and family is essential, and Scale understands the importance of having adequate leave policies in place to promote a healthy home and work life.
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alexandr Wang
(Founder & CEO)Previously, Alexandr was an Algorithm Developer at Hudson River Trading, a Tech Lead and Quora and a Software Engineer at Addepar.
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