Counsel - AI Infrastructure and Strategic Transactions

Counsel - AI Infrastructure and Strategic Transactions

• Basking Ridge, New Jersey /
• Washington, District of Columbia

Job ID: R-1102913

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely - even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What You’ll Be Doing...

Verizon is seeking an agile, forward-thinking, and experienced attorney to support our groundbreaking AI Connect initiatives. In this role, you will support a dynamic, non-hierarchical team responsible for driving high-stakes commercial transactions with hyperscalers, enterprise customers, and strategic partners across the full breadth and scope of Verizon Business. You will serve as a central subject-matter expert, guiding the company through the complex and evolving legal landscape expected to grow revenue and transform Verizon. From advising the AI Connect governance team to operationalizing high-value agreements that allow enterprise customers to scale their artificial intelligence capabilities, you will be a decision maker and part of a dynamic, collaborative, and innovative, agile and mission-focused team.

The ideal candidate is a skilled practitioner with sound judgment, deep intellectual curiosity, and impeccable communication skills who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You operate effectively in a non-hierarchical setting, demonstrating the flexibility to converse, collaborate, and advise colleagues at every level—from staff members to SVPs and EVPs. You will be a key advisor, bridging the gap between our legal department, technology teams, and executive leaders, with outstanding writing, presentation, and fast briefing capabilities for leadership.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Strategic Advisor: Leading as well as collaborating across functions to enable the strategy, development, and deployment of Verizon’s AI Connect services.
• Complex Technology Transactions: Structuring, drafting, negotiating, and advising on a wide range of high-value technology, real estate, and partnership agreements that underpin our AI ecosystem, including cloud infrastructure, hardware, GPU, and resale agreements.
• Commercial Governance & Operationalization: Partnering with and providing proactive, practical advice to the AI Connect Governance leadership team to enable the expedient design, implementation, and operationalization of processes and controls related to commercial transactions.
• Regulatory & Policy Strategy: Proactively monitoring and collaborating with leaders in policy, state government and affairs, and regulatory to deliver comprehensive advice around current and emerging AI regulations and policies that can negatively and positively impact the AI Connect strategy.
• Reporting & Executive Insights: Translating emerging legal and regulatory trends into actionable reports, rapid briefings, and clear updates for key business leaders, internal stakeholders, and executive leadership.
• Cross-Functional Risk Management: Partnering across Legal, Technology, Risk, Security, and Sourcing teams to ensure a unified approach to risk management for all AI initiatives.
• Compliance Training & Business Enablement: Creating scalable guidance, playbooks, and training on AI best practices to empower the rapid and compliant commercialization of the AI Connect strategic vision
• Transaction Tracking & Management: Assisting in tracking, organizing, and monitoring active transactions and legal matters supported across the AI Connect ecosystem.

What We’re Looking For...

You’ll need to have:

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school.
• Active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• Six or more years of experience as a practicing attorney at a reputable law firm, technology company, and/or in-house corporate legal department.
• Hands on experience negotiating and drafting technology and commercial transactions, leading and advising matrixed client and stakeholder teams (e.g. tax, finance, engineering, transformation, and sales).

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Proven track record of structuring, negotiating, and advising clients on high-stakes data center commercial agreements, including site selection, permitting, rights-of-way, and other advanced technology deployments.
• Strong background in drafting and negotiating high-value technology licensing agreements, cloud services agreements, hardware/​GPU agreements, and data usage terms.
• Impeccable communication skills with the proven ability to converse with, collaborate with, and advise colleagues at every level of the organization (from staff to SVP and EVP).
• Exceptional writing, presentation, and rapid briefing skills suited for delivering executive-level updates to leadership.
• Demonstrated technical fluency and comfort speaking the language of developers, network engineers, strategic industry advisers, solutions architects, and sales, to translate complex technical and business concepts into pragmatic legal advice.
• Experience supporting and championing innovation, and demonstrated use of AI tools, workflows, and legal automation platforms.
• Proven track record of managing high-volume, cross-disciplinary projects autonomously while remaining a highly collaborative team player.
• Experience with navigating technology transactions within regulated industries.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.The annual salary range for the location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $161,000.00 - $280,000.00.