Top Legal Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Lead legal counsel for Airwallex’s Yield product, advising on product design, licensing, regulatory engagement, partner arrangements, customer terms, disclosures, launches, and market expansion across multiple jurisdictions. Build scalable legal playbooks, governance processes, and launch checklists while partnering with Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, external counsel, and regulated financial institutions.

Lead legal counsel for Airwallex’s Yield product, advising on product design, licensing, regulatory requirements, partner arrangements, customer terms, disclosures, launches, and global market expansion. Support teams across the US, Canada, Singapore, Australia, and Europe while building scalable legal playbooks, governance processes, and launch-readiness materials. Collaborate with Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, external counsel, and regulated financial partners.

Support clients seeking disability benefits or insurance compensation by maintaining case progress, coordinating missing documentation with the SSA, and assisting attorneys and paralegals with claims. The role also involves improving workflows, collaborating across teams, supporting client testimonials, and testing product tools. It is a remote startup position with opportunities to develop legal expertise and advance toward paralegal responsibilities.

Provides in-house legal counsel across privacy, cybersecurity, AI, SaaS contracts, technology transactions, intellectual property, trademarks, copyright, marketing compliance, and product development. Reviews and negotiates agreements, advises on privacy and AI regulations, supports security incidents and ISO/SOC audits, manages outside counsel, guides product and marketing teams, and develops legal policies, playbooks, training, and compliance processes.

Lead Atlas’s day-to-day legal function as a hands-on senior lawyer. Manage litigation, financings, capital markets, commercial agreements, regulatory matters, employment contracts, outside counsel, budgets, deadlines, and business approvals. Partner closely with the founder, Finance, People, Product, and Compliance teams, providing practical legal guidance and independently driving matters through completion. Build templates, negotiation guidance, and processes that support rapid business execution while managing risk.

Provides senior legal expertise at the intersection of criminal and immigration law. Responsibilities include advising public defenders and immigration advocates, analyzing legal developments, writing practice resources, conducting trainings, supporting policy campaigns and litigation, managing grants, and representing the organization with stakeholders. The role requires advanced crim/imm expertise, strong legal writing and presentation skills, bar membership, and approximately 10% travel.

Provides advanced immigration law expertise to legal service providers through technical assistance, trainings, webinars, legal materials, policy analysis, and coalition work. Advises on removal defense, asylum, family-based immigration, detention release, VAWA, U visas, SIJS, naturalization, and enforcement issues. Coordinates project deliverables, prepares funder reports, cultivates funder relationships, and represents the organization in meetings. Requires extensive immigration law practice experience and travel throughout California and occasionally nationally.

The Staff Attorney will support California immigration-enforcement policy advocacy, coalition and campaign work, legal technical assistance, trainings, and written resources. Responsibilities include analyzing and drafting legislation, advising partners, supporting decarceration and sanctuary campaigns, providing immigration-law trainings, developing public-facing resources, engaging with media and funders, and representing ILRC in collaboratives. The role requires immigration-law experience, strong legal writing and communication skills, California travel, and current bar membership.

Lead legal strategy as David AI’s founding legal hire, advising executives on AI, data, privacy, commercial, transactional, corporate, and regulatory matters. Negotiate agreements with leading AI labs, manage external counsel, and build the company’s legal processes, infrastructure, and future team. The role requires 5–12 years of post-JD experience, elite law firm experience, strong commercial judgment, and familiarity with AI, data, or privacy issues.

Supports SEC filings, public company disclosures, corporate governance, Board administration, insider trading compliance, capital markets transactions, financing activities, ESG disclosures, and contracting. Provides legal guidance to Finance, Corporate Affairs, and other stakeholders while monitoring securities regulations and improving related legal processes and systems.

Provides corporate and transactional legal counsel to Roche and Genentech across governance, M&A, procurement, real estate, finance, commercial contracting, investigations, joint ventures, and licensing. Advises executives and cross-functional stakeholders on legal and business risks, supports corporate secretary activities, and manages global collaboration. The role requires strong corporate law experience, U.S. bar licensure, California in-house counsel eligibility, and proficiency applying AI and digital tools to legal work.

Provides civil legal services and technical assistance for incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and convicted people and their families. Responsibilities include legal research, trainings, policy and legislative advocacy, litigation support, legal resource development, coalition engagement, responding to legal information requests, and supervising interns. The role advances civil and human rights, racial and gender justice, reentry support, family unity, and access to justice in partnership with advocates, organizers, and impacted communities.

Senior commercial attorney responsible for leading enterprise contracting and complex negotiations with large, regulated, and AI-native customers. The role partners closely with Sales, Finance, Security, Engineering, Product, and Governance teams; develops legal positions for AI, cloud, data protection, and operational resilience matters; structures non-standard deals; creates scalable templates and playbooks; and mentors the legal team. Candidates need substantial technology transactions experience, active bar membership, regulatory knowledge, and the ability to translate technical products into practical legal terms.

Own and negotiate strategic partnership, licensing, distribution, and technology agreements for an AI infrastructure company. Advise Partnerships and GTM teams on model licenses, integrations, regulatory developments, and novel AI legal issues. Build templates and playbooks, mentor team members, and support enterprise deals, M&A, and other strategic transactions.

Legal Counsel will manage fund and vFund legal matters, including investor consents, side letters, LP transfers, fund documents, distributions, and secondary transactions. The role also owns commercial contract review, regulatory analysis, product support, and responses to regulator inquiries. A key responsibility is automating recurring legal requests through decision rules, templates, and agent workflows. The counsel will collaborate with Fund Operations, Investor Relations, Compliance, Product, Engineering, GPs, and external counsel.

Provides administrative, client-service, case-management, payment-processing, translation, data-entry, reporting, outreach, and file-management support for immigration legal services. Handles intake, appointments, client communications, USCIS filings, billing transactions, case deadlines, funder reports, workshops, and legal clinics. Maintains a small citizenship and deferred-action caseload, coordinates volunteers and interns, and may travel between offices or attend hearings and interviews.

Leads global corporate transactions, including private-company financings, M&A, joint ventures, secondary sales, governance, restructurings, and corporate actions. Advises executives and cross-functional teams on transaction structure, documentation, regulatory considerations, and closing processes. Manages external counsel across jurisdictions and develops scalable legal processes, playbooks, templates, approval frameworks, and LegalTech-enabled workflows.

Leads product legal support for embedded finance, lending, issuing, and payments products. Advises Product, Engineering, Sales, Risk, Compliance, and financial partners on U.S. and international payments regulations, licensing, AML, consumer finance, card-network rules, and BaaS requirements. Structures and negotiates financial partnership agreements, supports product launches across jurisdictions, develops legal playbooks, manages two lawyers, and serves as the U.S. legal lead for Embedded Finance and Lending.

Leads legal research and function-building for an AI research company. Responsibilities include prioritizing legal research, developing technical scenarios and datasets, publishing scholarly analysis, translating findings into model training and testing guidance, managing legal annotators and attorneys, coordinating outside counsel, and representing the team externally.

Supports commercial contracting by triaging requests, reviewing and drafting NDAs, order forms, SOWs, and MSAs, escalating complex issues to senior counsel, maintaining contract records, and improving legal workflows, templates, playbooks, and CLM processes. Partners with Sales, Finance, Security, Product, and Legal Operations on routine contract questions, data privacy and security terms, and scalable self-service resources.

Provides administrative and legal support to the Corporate Legal Department. Responsibilities include maintaining corporate claims and matters, assisting with contract review and data entry, monitoring notary contracts, responding to subpoenas and document requests, routing voicemails, supporting regulatory audits, and assisting General Counsel and associate counsel. The position requires attention to detail, communication skills, initiative, independent work capability, and regular attendance at the San Francisco office.

Develops standards and evaluations for AI systems used in legal work. Creates reference legal documents, rubrics, and realistic test cases; reviews model outputs for accuracy, reasoning, citations, and jurisdictional context; and provides actionable feedback to research and engineering teams. Partners with Product, Engineering, and legal professionals to prototype workflows and improve legal AI products while addressing confidentiality, privilege, data permissions, and professional responsibility.

Supports legal and privacy operations by improving legal technology and AI workflows, maintaining privacy inventories and evidence, responding to data subject requests, administering legal systems, managing knowledge resources, and executing corporate governance, equity, policy, and control initiatives. Partners with Product, Security, IT, Marketing, vendors, and business leaders to streamline processes and address compliance gaps.

Provides administrative and legal practice support to attorneys and legal professionals. Responsibilities include preparing expense reports, engagement letters, filings, binders, and documents; maintaining electronic files; scheduling meetings; coordinating travel; editing pre-bills; tracking filing deadlines and court dates; creating hyperlinks; and quality-checking materials. The role requires strong administrative, proofreading, organizational, interpersonal, and computer skills, proficiency with Microsoft Office, a bachelor’s degree, and the ability to work primarily in the office.

Legal Counsel will serve as a hands-on legal partner focused on drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, advising on privacy, HIPAA, data protection, product, marketing, and information security matters. The role will build scalable legal templates and processes, support AI and FDA-cleared product launches, assist with corporate matters, and coordinate outside counsel. Candidates need a JD, active U.S. bar membership, and at least four years of legal experience, preferably including SaaS, technology, healthcare, or regulated-industry work.