AI/ML Senior Product Counsel

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design. Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry. Given Cohesity’s role in the rapid adoption and expansion of AI/ML capabilities and uses across organizations, we are heavily investing in building and advocating the responsible use of AI as applied to sensitive data within the enterprise setting. We are seeking to bring in a thought leader and subject matter expert within the legal department to play a key role during this rapidly evolving and transformative era in technology, given the associated regulatory and legal backdrop as it changes in real-time. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced attorney to join the Cohesity in-house Legal team. Reporting directly to the VP of IP&P, you will be the lead IP attorney for all Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) issues. You will be an integral part of our AI/ML compliance team, serving as a subject matter expert on emerging AI/ML trends, regulations and technology. You will support Cohesity’s engineering and business teams as they develop and deploy AI/ML foundation models, tools, and associated data. You will partner closely with our AI product team, Open Source Software (OSS) legal team, Data/privacy experts, and patent teams for AI/ML matters.   HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE: Be responsible for all AI/ML legal issues, coordinating cross-functionally, as well as within legal Influence product development plans related to legal and compliance use cases that benefit our customers Collaborate with patent team to implement IP protection strategy for AI/ML innovations Collaborate with OSS and transactional legal teams to ensure license compliance Collaborate across legal regarding adjacent contractual, privacy and regulatory implications Advise/negotiate on AI/ML contractual provisions and create AI/ML playbook provisions Build processes and tools to scale compliance support for AI/ML products and services Prepare and provide AI/ML trainings to internal stakeholders Counsel on legal risk mitigation through technical architecture and product design Develop positive, strong, and collaborative relationships with multiple cross-functional partners (e.g., Engineering, Product Management, Product Security, Info Sec and other Legal teams) to identify and proactively protect products, projects, and services Drive special projects, including establishing strategies, guidelines, processes, and procedures, to enable the IP and broader legal team to provide best in class service to its partners Provide executive roll-up information related to industry trends and risks Be capable of presenting to executives and Board members along with the CLO and other senior members of legal WE’D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING: 10+ years of legal experience in a law firm and corporate environment JD degree with excellent academic credentials Substantive AI/ML technical and legal expertise Degree in engineering or computer science preferred Registered Patent attorney with in prior in-house patent experience highly preferred Open source licensing experience preferred Passion for AI and learning new areas of technology and evolving IP law Highly collaborative, patient and capable of finding effective methods to influence diverse groups of people and functions across the company Creative and analytical thinker with