Top Senior Legal Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

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.

Provides embedded legal and regulatory counsel for Airwallex’s global Yield investment product. Advises on product design, customer documentation, licensing, partner arrangements, market launches, and expansion across multiple jurisdictions. Translates complex requirements into practical product decisions, develops legal playbooks and governance processes, and collaborates with Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, regulators, external counsel, and financial partners.

Provides legal and regulatory counsel to Airwallex’s global Yield investment product from design through launch and market expansion. Advises on cross-jurisdictional investment, wealth-management, licensing, broker-dealer, custodial, disclosure, and product-governance matters. Partners with Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, regulators, external counsel, and financial-services partners. Develops scalable legal playbooks, launch checklists, and governance processes while translating complex requirements into practical commercial solutions.

Provides corporate and transactional legal counsel to Roche and Genentech across governance, M&A integrations, procurement, real estate, finance, investigations, joint ventures, licensing, and commercial agreements. Advises business leaders, supports corporate development and global contracting teams, manages legal risks, and collaborates with multidisciplinary stakeholders. The role requires strong corporate law expertise, life sciences interest, AI and digital fluency, U.S. bar licensure, California in-house counsel eligibility, and availability for global working hours.

Develop global data privacy, AI governance, and compliance policies; advise on GDPR, CCPA, and EU AI Act requirements; embed privacy-by-design across AI and cloud systems; negotiate data protection agreements; coordinate legal incident response and breach notifications; and monitor regulatory changes to advise executives on emerging legal risks.

Provide legal counsel for Salesforce AI products and research programs across product development, privacy, data protection, commercial agreements, and strategic transactions. Advise executives, engineers, and product managers; negotiate agreements with technology partners and service providers; support AI-related commercial escalations and transaction diligence; deliver client training; and build strong cross-functional relationships.

Advise ACLU affiliate leaders on strengthening civil rights and civil liberties legal programs. Support legal strategy, docket management, staffing, leadership, cooperating attorney relationships, integrated advocacy, and organizational alignment. Develop network-wide tools, best practices, learning communities, and capacity-building initiatives while facilitating collaboration between national and affiliate teams. The role requires extensive nonprofit legal program experience, strategic advising, facilitation, people management, a JD, and frequent travel.

Leads Sony Interactive Entertainment’s global privacy legal program, including privacy strategy, regulatory compliance, privacy-by-design, policies, training, vendor assessments, impact assessments, and incident response. Advises executives and the board, manages privacy professionals, coordinates with product, security, compliance, and business teams, and serves as a contact for regulators and customers. The role requires extensive legal and senior privacy leadership experience, knowledge of global privacy laws, and strong leadership and communication skills.

Lead securities, public company reporting, corporate governance, entity management, and M&A legal work for GitLab. Manage SEC filings, proxy statements, board matters, equity plans, subsidiary governance, transactions, and outside counsel. Advise senior stakeholders on legal risks, maintain compliance processes, and create scalable legal playbooks, templates, and workflows. Collaborate with globally distributed cross-functional teams and train junior legal professionals.

Leads Blee’s Legal Engineering function, translating advertising, consumer protection, and regulatory requirements into scalable AI review logic. Owns legal frameworks, quality measurement, regulatory updates, customer guidance, product collaboration, and team growth. Partners with legal, compliance, product, implementation, customer success, and AI engineering teams while representing Blee externally. Also supports in-house legal matters, including commercial agreements.

Leads Sony Interactive Entertainment’s global Product Counsel function across PlayStation hardware, software, and services. Manages legal professionals, advises product, engineering, design, security, privacy, and business teams throughout product development, and provides strategic guidance on international regulatory, compliance, privacy, safety, e-commerce, intellectual property, and consumer protection issues. The role develops global legal advice, manages cross-functional initiatives, establishes processes, provides training, and balances legal risk with business objectives.

Senior Legal Counsel will manage private-market investment transactions, including SPV diligence, offering reviews, fund structuring, securities regulatory analysis, investment-document drafting and negotiation, side letters, closings, and product counseling. The role partners with business, product, engineering, operations, and compliance teams while building scalable legal templates, playbooks, and workflows. Candidates need U.S. bar membership, a JD, and 4–7 years of relevant funds, securities, or capital markets experience.

Senior Legal Counsel will own commercial contracting, product counseling, corporate governance, entity management, employment matters, litigation, disputes, and subpoena responses. The role partners across product, engineering, operations, compliance, finance, and HR; builds legal processes, templates, playbooks, and intake workflows; and provides practical guidance for a growing regulated financial technology company.

Serve as the primary legal partner to Procurement, drafting and negotiating high-value buy-side agreements across SaaS, software, marketing, facilities, professional services, and real estate. Provide guidance on complex transactions, risk allocation, data privacy, technology contracting, and vendor risk. Develop scalable contracting processes, playbooks, templates, training, and knowledge resources while leveraging automation and legal technology. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and support broader Legal team initiatives.

The Commercial Legal Director will lead complex technology and commercial transactions, negotiate SaaS, licensing, partnership, marketing, and services agreements, and develop scalable legal contracting standards. The role advises teams on AI, intellectual property, privacy, security, and regulatory issues; improves contracting workflows using Ironclad and AI-enabled tools; and partners with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, finance, marketing, and people operations.

Manage employment litigation and discovery matters from case initiation through production. Responsibilities include legal holds, case setup, document collection and review, e-discovery workflows, discovery meetings, project plans, stakeholder coordination, reporting, quality control, and process improvement. The role partners with attorneys, HR, IT, compliance, outside counsel, and client stakeholders to deliver defensible, timely discovery outcomes while managing multiple concurrent matters.

Lead legal work for private-market investment products, including SPV and fund structuring, securities offerings, investor terms, partnerships, regulatory analysis, and product counsel. Draft and negotiate transaction documents, supervise outside counsel, manage deal execution, advise cross-functional teams, and build scalable legal templates, playbooks, and workflows. The role requires significant funds, securities, and private-markets experience and reports to the Head of Legal.

Manage corporate filings, legal records, deadlines, requests, budgets, invoices, vendors, and legal technology. Improve legal workflows, document processes, track obligations, and support attorneys while maintaining confidentiality and organization in a fast-moving environment.

Privacy and Regulatory Counsel will advise a technology company on U.S. and international privacy, consumer protection, regulatory, AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technology matters. Responsibilities include developing compliance and governance programs, interpreting regulations, advising business and product teams, negotiating commercial agreements, supporting responsible AI policies, and monitoring legislative developments. The role requires collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders and provides broader corporate legal support.

Own legal operations, contract lifecycle management, agreement triage, templates, repositories, outside counsel billing, legal spend, corporate governance, cap table maintenance, transaction support, and claims and litigation coordination. Administer legal technology, build operational dashboards, improve workflows through automation, and partner with Finance, Accounting, People Operations, Compliance, and business teams.

Develops and executes litigation, legal policy, and advocacy strategies affecting the pharmaceutical industry. Advises senior leaders and business functions, manages complex litigation, investigations, disputes, and outside counsel, and engages with government agencies, attorneys general, trade associations, and industry stakeholders. Monitors legal and policy developments involving drug development, pricing, access, and reimbursement while advancing Lilly’s policy objectives.

Legal Assistant supporting a litigation defense firm with insurance defense matters, including auto, trucking, transportation, commercial litigation, premises liability, and bodily injury cases. Responsibilities require strong organization, multitasking, communication, knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and state and federal court rules. Prior trial experience is preferred.

Provides in-house labor and employment counsel, advises Human Resources and business stakeholders, ensures legal compliance, manages outside employment counsel, and supports litigation, labor relations, benefits, and employment policies. Drafts and negotiates commercial customer agreements involving services, data, and information technology. Develops customer-focused legal solutions, contributes to functional strategy, solves complex business problems, and operates independently in a demanding environment.

Handles complex professional liability claims, especially legal malpractice claims. Responsibilities include evaluating coverage, assessing risk transfer, investigating liability and damages, setting reserves, managing litigation and counsel, negotiating resolutions, communicating claim exposures, and developing strategies for favorable outcomes. Periodic travel is required for mediations, trials, and related meetings.

Lead complex global partner and channel transactions, including reseller, referral, MSP, OEM, systems integrator, and strategic alliance agreements. Advise business leaders on deal structures, negotiations, legal risks, and commercial solutions while collaborating across sales, product, privacy, security, finance, tax, engineering, operations, and compliance. Develop scalable contracting templates, playbooks, policies, training, and workflows for the company’s expanding partnerships program.