Top Legal Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

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.

Legal interns support environmental and public interest litigation through legal research, factual investigation, written memoranda, public records requests, document review, discovery, and court attendance. They research potential litigation, collaborate with Sierra Club attorneys, and participate in legal team meetings. Candidates must be current JD students with exceptional writing, research, analytical, interpersonal, organizational, and multitasking skills, plus an interest in environmental or public interest law.

Lead and scale Legal Engineering manager-led teams in the Americas to support in-house customer engagements. Build systems, processes, and operating models; partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Operations; advise legal leaders and senior stakeholders; drive planning, resource management, talent development, and operational excellence; shape the future of Legal Engineering at Harvey.

Provides legal advice, negotiates contracts, prepares legal documents, and addresses employment law and compliance matters. Collaborates with internal teams, external partners, and customers to ensure legal compliance and deliver strategic guidance in a fast-paced remote environment.

Provides legal and regulatory counsel on SEC, FINRA, CFTC, and NFA requirements for securities, derivatives, tokenized securities, prediction markets, and related products. Advises business teams on product launches, contracts, policies, licensing, marketing materials, and cross-border compliance. Represents the company before the SEC, coordinates with external counsel, manages regulatory risks, and supports regulated exchange and broker-dealer operations.

Provides administrative and legal support for patent prosecution matters. Responsibilities include generating patent portfolio reports, preparing and filing USPTO documents, managing assignments and declarations, organizing file histories, monitoring patent deadlines, drafting and proofreading correspondence and filings, and coordinating with attorneys, patent agents, paralegals, inventors, clients, and vendors. The role requires strong organization, calendaring, database, document-management, and communication skills, along with 2–3 years of patent prosecution experience.

Leads legal support for the UK Hub and international teams, advising senior stakeholders on commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, disputes, AI governance, transactions, technology, and corporate governance. The role manages legal risk, supports strategic initiatives, oversees external counsel, mentors junior lawyers, and deputizes for the General Counsel. It requires an England and Wales-qualified solicitor with extensive commercial legal experience across international businesses.

Leads legal operations transformation and enablement, including legal technology architecture, AI-enabled workflows, contract lifecycle management, process optimization, metrics, vendor management, change management, and budgeting. Builds scalable contracting infrastructure, improves self-service and legal intake, reduces outside counsel reliance, partners with IT and enterprise teams on technology delivery, and manages legal operations staff while supporting commercial and procurement contracting.

Senior Commercial Counsel supporting Americas go-to-market activities by reviewing and negotiating complex SaaS, software licensing, professional services, reseller, and customer agreements. The role leads multijurisdictional transactions, advises on regulatory and compliance developments, trains stakeholders, maintains legal policies and templates, and develops scalable workflows. Candidates should have strong commercial legal experience, business judgment, communication skills, and a U.S. state bar membership, with experience in high-growth technology companies preferred.

Own attorney and client relationships, coordinate case progress from intake to resolution, provide status updates, remove bottlenecks, and ensure timely, high-quality client communication and case velocity in collaboration with Legal Ops.

Lead Vercel's product counseling function, managing a team, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and providing legal support throughout product development. Build scalable processes and integrate AI tools into workflows.

Own and scale the company’s global privacy and data protection program. Advise product, engineering, sales, marketing, security, and executives on privacy laws, data transfers, DPAs, AI governance, security commitments, incident response, and regulatory requirements. Manage privacy assessments, data inventories, notices, training, outside counsel, and vendor relationships. Partner with Security and GRC on audits, certifications, breach response, government requests, and customer obligations while building scalable processes and eventually a privacy team.

Leads and builds Tailscale’s global legal function, advising executives and cross-functional teams on corporate governance, product, privacy, data, security, intellectual property, employment, commercial, compliance, and international matters. Establishes legal strategy, processes, systems, and operating models; hires and develops the legal team; manages outside counsel; supports strategic transactions and partnerships; and translates complex legal and regulatory issues into practical business guidance.

Own and negotiate commercial agreements across customers, vendors, partners, marketplaces, technology, data protection, and confidentiality matters. Advise Sales and go-to-market teams on deal structure, risk, and contracting strategy. Build scalable templates, playbooks, approval processes, and self-service resources. Partner with Security, Privacy, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations on technology transactions, global matters, revenue considerations, and risk management. Improve contracting efficiency and support broader legal priorities.

Supports Swiss corporate governance and legal administration for Sandoz AG and related entities. Responsibilities include corporate actions, filings, records, authorities, notaries, signatory rights, powers of attorney, KYC/AML, document formalities, governance policies, training, controls, and global legal entity management. The role requires collaboration with internal and external stakeholders in an international environment.

Develops, licenses, and manages analytical tax, accounting, and legal content for professional customers. Responsibilities include researching tax law, legislation, regulations, and case law; writing and editing practical guidance; using generative AI to improve content workflows; recruiting authors and negotiating licensing agreements; and collaborating with editorial, product, technical, sales, and marketing teams. Requires a JD, CPA designation, significant accounting experience, and at least two years each of tax legal and accounting experience.

Manages commercial contract intake, triage, and negotiation within approved templates and playbooks. Partners with attorneys on complex matters, improves contracting processes and documentation, enables business teams, and drives legal technology initiatives. Owns CLM, repository reporting, AI adoption, templates, approval workflows, and multiple concurrent projects while coordinating with Sales, Finance, Revenue Operations, Privacy, and Business Systems.

Own the company’s legal and regulatory strategy across controlled-substance prescribing, telehealth practice, corporate structure, privacy, marketing, AI, litigation, workforce matters, payer contracts, and governance. Advise executives and the board, manage government inquiries and outside counsel, negotiate healthcare and commercial agreements, and build the legal function. The role requires deep healthcare and digital-health experience, including MSO and professional-corporation structures, HIPAA, healthcare fraud and abuse, consumer protection, employment law, and multi-state regulatory matters.

Serve as fractional Chief Legal Counsel/General Counsel advising alternative asset firms and family offices on securities law, fund formation, regulatory compliance, contracts, transactions, governance, litigation and vendor relationships. Lead fund structuring, investor negotiations, regulatory responses, training, policy development, and special projects while managing outside counsel and legal budgets across US and international jurisdictions.

Coordinates customer and vendor onboarding, export compliance for international hardware shipments, and review and negotiation of NDAs and Statements of Work. Maintains contract records, agreement trackers, renewal dates, and onboarding workflows while partnering with Corporate Counsel, Sales, Finance, Engineering, OEMs, and vendors. Escalates non-standard legal, compliance, and licensing issues and supports consistent contracting processes across technology reseller engagements.

Provides the company’s primary legal support across corporate, commercial, regulatory, contract, governance, compliance, employment, and risk matters. Advises the CEO and leadership, reviews and negotiates contracts and SLAs, manages statutory filings and corporate records, supports board documentation, coordinates external counsel, and assists HR, Finance, and Procurement with legal issues.

Provides enterprise-wide legal strategy across international expansion, global privacy, product regulation, trade compliance, and market entry. Advises cross-functional teams on jurisdictional requirements, data transfers, regulatory pathways, advertising, labeling, export controls, sanctions, customs, and consumer protection. Builds scalable legal templates, playbooks, policies, and review processes; coordinates outside counsel and regulatory responses; and translates complex multi-jurisdictional requirements into actionable guidance for business and technical stakeholders.

Provide legal support for commercialization and product development of an AI-powered ad tech platform: draft and negotiate commercial agreements, manage IP portfolio and complex IP litigation, advise on AI, data, and privacy matters, counsel product teams on compliance and IP protection, and develop automated legal workflows.

Leads commercial legal support for Mobility and Payments across the Americas. Advises executives and cross-functional teams, manages legal professionals and outside counsel, and drafts and negotiates complex commercial agreements. Supports product development from inception through launch, maintains product terms, manages risks and disputes, and contributes to M&A, RFPs, marketing review, process improvements, templates, and negotiation playbooks.

Negotiate delinquent accounts with law firms to secure reduced balances, extended payment terms, or lump-sum settlements. Review legal documents, manage escalated portfolios and client accounts, maintain attorney relationships, meet monthly settlement and compliance goals, and handle high-volume inbound/outbound calls to resolve lawsuits and prevent further legal action.