Head of Legal

Responsibilities

Lead the company's legal strategy and serve as a strategic partner to the executive team. Manage complex legal matters involving AI, data privacy, and commercial transactions while building the legal function from the ground up.

Requirements

Requires 5–12 years of post-JD experience, ideally from an elite law firm. Candidates must possess strong expertise in AI, data, or privacy law and demonstrate a business-oriented mindset.

Skills

• Legal strategy
• AI law
• Data privacy
• Commercial law
• Transactional law
• Regulatory compliance
• Corporate law
• Contract negotiation
• Legal infrastructure
• Risk management
• Strategic partnership
• Intellectual property

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Meaningful equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision coverage
• FSA
• HSA
• 401(k)
• Daily meals
• Snacks
• Beverages
• Unlimited company-sponsored Barry's classes

About this role

About David AI
At David AI, our vision is to bring impactful AI into billions of lives through voice. Our mission is to help the world's leading AI companies build better voice models and agents. We're building the data and evaluation infrastructure behind those models.
Founded in 2024, we're a fast-growing Series B company backed by NVIDIA, Meritech, First Round, YC, and others, with ~70 people across San Francisco and New York City.
About this role
We're hiring a Head of Legal, our founding legal hire, working closely with our executive team.
Given the nature of our business, we view legal as a strategic function that can help us build a stronger competitive moat and accelerate our growth, not just a back-office function. You'll have broad ownership across the company, navigating complex legal questions at the frontier of AI while building our legal function from the ground up.
In this role, you will
Lead legal strategy across the business, serving as a strategic partner to the CEO and executive team.
Navigate complex AI, data, and privacy questions related to data acquisition, AI model training, and evaluation.
Own commercial and transactional legal work, including negotiating agreements with the world's leading AI labs.
Advise across a broad range of corporate, regulatory, and legal matters, working with external counsel where appropriate.
Build and scale our legal function, including its processes, infrastructure, and eventually, team.
Your background looks like
5–12 years of post-JD experience, including experience at an elite law firm.
Exceptional intellectual horsepower, attention to detail, and legal judgment.
Demonstrated versatility across legal disciplines, with the ability to quickly develop expertise in unfamiliar areas.
Experience with AI, data, or privacy matters, and strong commercial or transactional experience.
A bias for action, comfort operating in ambiguity, and the ability to move quickly without sacrificing rigor.
A business-oriented mindset and genuine excitement about helping build a fast-growing AI company.
Bonus points if you have
Experience working in-house at a technology company, including through a secondment.
Exposure to litigation, disputes, or complex regulatory matters.
Benefits
Competitive compensation and meaningful equity.
Unlimited PTO.
Top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% coverage for most plans.
FSA, HSA, and 401(k) access.
Daily meals, snacks, and beverages at the office.
Unlimited company-sponsored Barry's classes.
Visas
We sponsor international candidates across a range of visa types, including H-1B transfers, H-1B1, O-1, E-3, and TN, and we support STEM OPT. While we can’t guarantee any individual outcome, we’ve successfully sponsored teammates from all over the world.

About David AI

Software Development · 51-200 employees · headquartered in San Francisco, CA · founded 2024