Associate General Counsel (Product and Research)

What You’ll Do

• Be the go-to counsel for our data and research teams on the legal questions inside model development, and design the frameworks that let research move fast with confidence
• Partner with our product teams to ship products and features that delight our users.
• Draft and review the consumer-facing terms, policies, disclosures, and marketing that go with our products — written for customers, not lawyers
• Continue building out our privacy program — and tell its story to customers — to deepen customer trust in our products
• Stay ahead of the AI legal frameworks developing internationally, translate developments into principles and policies our teams can act on, and help Deepgram develop a clear point of view on responsible AI development
• Develop deep expertise across the legal questions defining AI today, and help advance how our company, and the broader field, thinks about them
• Build the AI-native legal function at Deepgram with workflows and systems that scale our team’s impact

You'll Love This Role If You

• Are passionate about AI and the ability to work alongside cutting-edge researchers and engineering teams
• Get energized by being the first — building systems from scratch, establishing foundational practices, and turning novel legal questions into ones with answers
• Are very practical in addressing legal issues and allergic to unnecessary friction
• Have an abiding spirit of idealism about your chosen profession — you're not just answering legal questions, you're building something that matters
• Have a point of view on what good lawyering looks like and a healthy sense of humor about everything else

It's Important To Us That You Have

• JD from a U.S. accredited law school and 7–15 years of experience in legal practice (or more), in-house, at a firm, or both
• Demonstrated experience counseling product, research, or engineering teams on the legal questions that come up in how AI gets built and deployed
• Fluency in the issues that matter most to us: privacy, IP, data licensing, consumer protection, and the international AI regulatory landscape. Depth in some, excited to learn the rest
• Recognize that law is about the grey areas, and are comfortable living in them, while giving clear and actionable advice
• An AI-native legal practice — workflows you've built into your own work, not just tools you've used
• Exceptional writing — precise, plain, and compelling

It Would Be Great If You Had

• Hands-on experience at a foundation model company or AI research lab — you've seen how legal questions actually arise inside model development
• Depth in one or more emerging AI regulatory regimes (EU AI Act, US states, UK, APAC)

We read cover letters! If you want to stand out: Tell us about a novel legal question you worked through without a playbook — how you reasoned through it and where you landed.