Top Senior Legal Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

As Lead Legal Engineer, lead complex client engagements, manage a team, deliver implementations, build relationships with clients, and shape onboarding frameworks.

Serves as legal partner to AI infrastructure supply chain leadership. Drafts and negotiates GPU, compute hardware, equipment supply, software, cloud, SaaS, logistics, and freight contracts. Advises on supply-chain risk allocation, warranties, delays, liability, indemnities, intellectual property, payment security, and termination rights. Provides guidance on export controls, sanctions, tariffs, and customs matters; develops procurement templates and playbooks; and manages vendor disputes and escalations.

Serve as a senior legal partner to Gong’s go-to-market organization. Lead complex enterprise SaaS, AI, licensing, professional services, and strategic commercial negotiations; advise Sales and business leaders on legal risk and deal strategy; develop contracting templates and playbooks; improve legal processes; collaborate cross-functionally; and mentor junior lawyers.

Lead Inferact’s legal function as its first in-house lawyer. Own commercial contracting, technology licensing, partnerships, vendor and customer agreements, and general corporate legal matters. Build legal processes, manage outside counsel, advise leadership and technical teams, and address open-source licensing, privacy, export controls, and emerging AI regulation. The role requires hands-on legal execution while scaling a legal function for a fast-growing AI infrastructure company.

Serve as primary legal partner for Navan's B2B and B2C travel and expense products, advising on product, commercial agreements, regulatory and compliance matters, drafting and negotiating contracts, managing outside counsel, and supporting global expansion and payment/card program compliance.

Provide legal advice to product, sales, and local teams across multiple regions; negotiate and draft complex commercial and technology agreements; coordinate with local counsel and manage external advisors; support regulatory strategy, market entry, and government/regulator outreach for fintech/payments products.

Drafts, reviews, and negotiates U.S. and international SaaS, cloud, software licensing, services, reseller, and OEM agreements. Advises Sales and cross-functional teams on commercial risk, technology contracts, privacy, security, and regulatory requirements. Develops contract templates and negotiation playbooks, monitors legal developments, manages external counsel, and supports training and process improvement.

Provide expert legal support for global data center client contracts, focusing on complex commercial leases, triple-net leases, service agreements and gigawatt campus projects. Negotiate and draft contracts, manage contractual risk and compliance, advise leadership, support cross-functional stakeholders worldwide, and develop contract templates and procedures to improve efficiency.

Conduct complex investigations into governmental ethics, campaign finance, lobbying, conflicts of interest, and disclosure violations. Develop legal strategies, analyze evidence, negotiate settlements, draft enforcement documents and hearing briefs, present cases at administrative hearings, and recommend resolutions. The role also supports enforcement-regulation updates, process improvements, staff training, cross-agency coordination, and supervision of interns or temporary staff in a sensitive, highly visible public-sector environment.

Provides strategic legal counsel to Roche’s pharmaceutical R&D functions across research, clinical operations, product development, medical affairs, AI, data privacy, and human-subject protections. Drafts and negotiates research collaboration and data-sharing agreements with external partners, develops legal guidance and training materials, and collaborates with global legal, regulatory, ethics, scientific, and business stakeholders. The role requires advanced knowledge of FDA, healthcare fraud and abuse, privacy, and human therapeutics regulations.

Lead and operationalize responses to subpoenas and eDiscovery demands; manage the end-to-end eDiscovery lifecycle; coordinate internal and external stakeholders; draft and improve policies and processes for customer data requests; monitor legal and regulatory developments; and act as project manager to drive litigation operations and legal tech–driven workflow improvements.

Serve as lead commercial counsel for the go-to-market organization, negotiating complex enterprise, strategic, partnership, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and AI agreements. Advise sales and business stakeholders on risk, regulatory, privacy, and commercial issues; build scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, risk frameworks, CLM tools, and AI-enabled workflows; support quote-to-cash automation; and partner with senior leaders on strategic initiatives.

Provides legal counsel to BioMarin’s Market Access organization on pharmaceutical pricing, reimbursement, government price reporting, healthcare regulations, promotional activities, and commercial contracting. Advises on Medicaid, Medicare, 340B, anti-kickback, transparency, and related laws. Drafts and negotiates payer, PBM, specialty pharmacy, distribution, rebate, data licensing, patient support, and value-based agreements while collaborating with Legal, Compliance, and cross-functional business teams.

Provides legal counsel to pharmaceutical commercial, marketing, medical affairs, and communications teams. Reviews promotional materials through MLR committees, negotiates commercial contracts, advises on healthcare regulations and compliance risks, supports investigations and corrective actions, and briefs executives on FDA, OIG, and industry enforcement trends.

Provides senior legal counsel on AI, product development, marketing, legal technology, technology transactions, and emerging regulations. Advises Product, Engineering, Marketing, Partner, Customer Success, and Strategy teams; drafts policies and agreement terms; negotiates vendor, open-source, collaboration, and customer agreements; supports product launches and go-to-market strategies; and translates complex AI laws into practical business guidance.

Manage legal requests, contract lifecycle processes, templates, approvals, renewals, outside counsel relationships, budgets, vendors, and legal team workflows. Support corporate transactions, filings, policies, training, privacy requests, data maps, impact assessments, and compliance reporting. The role serves as the central intake point for legal matters, improves systems and processes, maintains records, and coordinates cross-functional implementation of legal technology and safeguards.

Develop global data privacy, AI governance, and compliance policies; advise executives on regulatory risks; embed privacy-by-design across AI and cloud products; negotiate data protection agreements; and coordinate legal responses to security incidents, breach notifications, investigations, and communications.

Provide senior-level administrative support to lawyers including document preparation and proofreading, calendar and travel coordination, client onboarding and billing support, time entry management, records and file maintenance, and coordination across firm departments. Maintain confidentiality, prioritize multiple assignments, and ensure compliance with firm and client billing and document standards.

Own commercial legal work, including drafting and negotiating enterprise technology agreements, SaaS licenses, partnerships, reseller arrangements, procurement contracts, and data processing agreements. Advise on AI product terms, data rights, intellectual property, cybersecurity testing permissions, liability, and risk allocation. Partner with Sales, Finance, Product, Engineering, and Security, while building scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, and training. The role requires independently leading complex negotiations and supporting a growing technology startup.

Evaluate AI-generated legal and compliance work products, including documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks, against domain-specific quality rubrics. Assess accuracy, rigor, factual correctness, aesthetics, and presentation quality, then provide clear, structured written feedback. This is a fully remote, hourly independent-contractor engagement with flexible scheduling and weekly payments.

Oversee the full contract lifecycle, including drafting, negotiation, approvals, execution, storage, renewals, and close-out. Improve contract processes, manage third-party relationships, coordinate legal operations, track legal spend, support compliance and governance committees, prepare performance metrics, resolve contract issues, and help implement contract management technology. The role requires collaboration with legal counsel, Finance, Security, Privacy, Quality, internal stakeholders, and external partners.

Provides commercial legal support across North America, managing customer, partner, supplier, and stakeholder contracts from drafting through negotiation. Advises teams on SaaS agreements, privacy, data protection, compliance, procurement, vendor management, AI, and cybersecurity regulations. Maintains contract lifecycle systems and templates, delivers internal training, supports legal monitoring, and coordinates occasional litigation matters with internal teams and outside counsel.

Provide legal counsel for AbbVie's global pharmaceutical and aesthetic product alliances across research, development, and commercialization. Draft, review, and negotiate licenses, collaborations, co-development, co-promotion, and R&D agreements. Advise business leaders on complex strategic partnerships, due diligence, alliance amendments, restructurings, and integration planning across Aesthetics, Toxins, and Eye Care. The role requires cross-functional collaboration, advanced legal analysis, scientific understanding, and sound business judgment.

Manage Life360’s patent and trademark portfolios, including prosecution, enforcement, and outside counsel relationships. Advise on intellectual property matters involving patents, trademarks, trade secrets, licensing, open-source software, product development, and commercial transactions. Draft and negotiate IP-related agreements, support M&A due diligence, review marketing materials for compliance, and counsel cross-functional teams on strategic IP risks and opportunities.

Owns the end-to-end contract and legal document lifecycle, including maintaining MSAs and templates, redlining routine agreements, managing document control and data rooms, coordinating due diligence, tracking renewals, and supporting contract execution. Drafts investor, equity, trademark, and corporate filing documents while serving as an internal legal and paralegal resource. Partners with Finance, Compliance, Sales, People Operations, leadership, and outside counsel, escalating higher-risk legal matters as needed.