AI Deals Senior Counsel – Products & Regulatory Legal Group

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job, and there's no telling what you could accomplish.

Do you love Apple products? Do you love solving problems? Do you enjoy working in a dynamic, fast-paced and exciting environment? Do you enjoy working on matters that touch customers all over the world? As a part of our Product Law Group, you’ll help uphold Apple’s high ethical and corporate standards. You’ll help provide legal support for all our products across the globe. Working for a company that invents entire categories and industries means you’ll be challenged to creatively apply your expertise to rare and often unexplored areas of the law.

As a member of the Products & Regulatory Legal Group, you will work with Apple’s procurement, engineering, and operations teams to help create and introduce Apple products to the world. With passion, dedication, and a desire to tackle challenges, you will play a crucial role as we provide the legal support needed for Apple to continue to build cutting-edge technologies.

Description

You will join a team of attorneys in the Products & Regulatory Legal Group who support the relationships with third parties that drive research and development of generative artificial intelligence features. You will draft and negotiate agreements with third parties to integrate AI models into internal and external tools, to create, license, and modify data to train AI features, and to leverage compute and storage resources to do so. You’ll advise the business in the day-to-day work with those third parties, and in the related development of artificial intelligence features. This work will require close collaboration with subject matter experts across legal teams, including privacy, intellectual property, export compliance, and product counseling. The candidate must have experience managing a large docket of deals and be able to solve highly complex issues in creative and effective ways, while maintaining an acceptable level of legal risk in a fast-paced environment. You will also advise Apple management on risk allocation/mitigation, business strategies, and policies.

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of experience with general transactional matters
JD degree or equivalent and admission to at least one US state bar

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with artificial intelligence, intellectual property, privacy, export compliance, or user study research issues
Experience drafting and negotiating complex agreements
Ability to handle your own high-volume workload on day-to-day matters
Ability to prioritize and handle multiple range of matters supporting multiple cross-functional teams
Ability to distill complex legal concepts into practical guidance for non-lawyers
Crisp and clear communication style
Ability to advise executive management, and facilitate teamwork by cultivating relationships, counseling, collaborating, and effectively communicating with teammates and cross-functional partners
Positive attitude
Ability to see beyond the precise question asked to larger issues and implications

Pay & Benefits — Cupertino, California, United States

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $235,100 and $353,400, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Application Deadline

Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.