Senior AI Product – Partnerships Counsel
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Job Description
AI counsel enabling Runway’s generative video products and strategic partnerships. Advising product, engineering, sales, and executives on IP, privacy, and commercial deals.
Responsibilities:
- Advise on product legal matters from design through launch
- Build playbooks and streamline legal review for partnership deals, including data partnerships, IP and model licensing, procurement, reseller, and marketplace agreements
- Close strategic partner and customer deals, including B2B SaaS contracts, APIs, DPAs, and order forms
- Learn the technical aspects of generative AI products to inform legal advice
- Monitor and help shape technical, legal, and policy developments in AI
- Translate AI developments into practical product guidance
- Implement scalable legal-team practices, including enablement, self-serve resources, and AI-enabled automation
- Serve as a strategic partner to product, engineering, partnerships, sales, marketing, and the Executive Team
Requirements:
- 6+ years of relevant experience, including in-house experience at a fast-paced technology company
- Experience advising product development leaders and executives across a broad range of issues, especially IP and privacy
- Experience closing partnership and go-to-market deals, including data partnerships, IP and model licensing, robotics, hardware, compute, reseller, partner, customer, and vendor agreements
- Experience providing practical recommendations to senior leaders with limited time and information
- Sound judgment in ambiguity and ability to gather key information quickly
- Demonstrated interest in AI, creative tools, or both
- J.D.
- Admission in good standing with at least one state bar
- Generative AI models and agentic workflow understanding and interest (nice to have)
- Experience closing strategic, IP-heavy partnerships (nice to have)
- Experience in B2C and B2B industries and product-led and enterprise businesses (nice to have)
- Experience closing B2B SaaS customer deals (nice to have)
- Big Law and/or hypergrowth tech startup experience (nice to have)
- Must be based in the U.S. and authorized to work in the U.S.
Benefits:
- Equal opportunity to succeed regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, or veteran status
- Future contact consent for job opportunities for up to 4 years (optional)



















