Associate General Counsel, Product & Regulatory
Our Mission
Reflection’s mission is to build open superintelligence and make it accessible to all.
We’re developing open weight models for individuals, agents, enterprises, and even nation states. Our team of AI researchers and company builders come from DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Brain, Meta, Character.AI, Anthropic and beyond.
About the Role
As our first dedicated product & regulatory attorney, you will build and scale the legal and compliance frameworks underpinning our open-weights AI model development and releases. You’ll partner with research, trust & safety, and data infrastructure teams to ensure our models and data pipelines are developed, released and commercialized in accordance with emerging domestic and international AI regulations and public trust expectations.
What You’ll Do
Provide legal and regulatory advice across the full model lifecycle, partnering with product, research, engineering, safety, and operations teams to embed “legal by design” and “safety by design” principles.
Advise on the use of third-party, synthetic, and open-source data and models, ensuring compliance with data licensing, provenance, and attribution requirements.
Design and implement policies for model and dataset publication under open-weights licenses, including governance documentation and responsible release frameworks.
Develop and maintain internal policies, guardrails and playbooks addressing acceptable use, red teaming, misuse monitoring, adversarial testing, and model deprecation.
Lead cross-functional risk governance (e.g., release committees, safety reviews and escalation paths).
Advise on model licensing regimes, open-source frameworks, and downstream usage rights.
Monitor and interpret emerging AI, data, and export-control regulations, advising on global compliance for model development and commercialization.
Oversee and help evolve the company’s global privacy program, including GDPR/CCPA/DPA compliance, DPIAs, and privacy-by-design reviews in coordination with information security and trust teams.
Track and brief leadership on AI regulatory, safety, and ethics trends, including proposed legislation, standards, and industry codes of conduct.
Advise on regulatory engagement and external advocacy, including responding to inquiries, participating in consultations, and liaising with agencies on emerging AI rules.
Ideal Qualifications
J.D. or equivalent legal degree; active bar membership; eligibility to be admitted where needed.
8–12+ years of experience at a top-tier law firm and/or technology company or regulatory agency, ideally with some combination of in-house and law firm experience, with significant exposure to AI/ML, data science, or advanced technology regulation.
Proven experience advising on regulated technology, privacy, cybersecurity, or similar complex compliance regimes, building credibility with product and engineering teams.
Strong understanding of global privacy regimes (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, UK GDPR and others) and cross-border data transfer rules.
Demonstrated ability to partner with engineering and research teams, translate complex technical concepts into practical legal guidance, and build scalable frameworks.
Excellent judgment in balancing legal, safety, and business tradeoffs in emerging regulatory areas.
Bonus Points
Familiarity with model evaluation, interpretability, or safety frameworks (NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, OECD AI Principles).
Experience engaging with regulators, standards bodies, or contributing to AI policy development.
Prior leadership experience successfully scaling product and regulatory legal functions.
What We Offer:
We believe that to build superintelligence that is truly open, you need to start at the foundation. Joining Reflection means building from the ground up as part of a small talent-dense team. You will help define our future as a company, and help define the frontier of open foundational models.
We want you to do the most impactful work of your career with the confidence that you and the people you care about most are supported.
Top-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain the best talent globally.
Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
Life & family: Fully paid parental leave for all new parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys. Financial support for family planning.
Benefits & balance: paid time off when you need it, relocation support, and more perks that optimize your time.
Opportunities to connect with teammates: lunch and dinner are provided daily. We have regular off-sites and team celebrations.