Counsel Law and Compliance

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Join a high-caliber Legal & Compliance team building and scaling a global AI enterprise programata leading asset manager. This is a strategic role, focusing on designing and operationalizing AI policies and governance frameworks to enable responsible innovation across investment, client-facing, HR, and operational AI use cases at a highly regulated asset manager. You will help create policies, guardrails, tools, and scalable systems to handle large volumes that empower teams to experiment, deploy, and manage AI responsibly at enterprise scale.

Design, iterate, and operationalize global AI policies, governance frameworks, experimentation protocols, risk assessments, and playbooks spanning investment research/management, client facing tools, HR/talent processes, and operational automation
Ensure multijurisdictional alignment (EU AI Act high-risk considerations, GDPR, emerging U.Leverage experience with negotiating third party data vendor, SAAS and AI provider contracts to build scalable AI/cloud/data vendor templates and negotiation playbooks that integrate Information Security and Global Risk requirements, and the candidate will enhance these via legal tech and AI enabled workflows and managed service providers
Partner with investment teams, client groups, HR, compliance, information security, data office, procurement, and global risk to embed pragmatic guardrails into high-impact AI initiatives
Provide clear, commercially oriented guidance, training, and governance committee support to accelerate responsible innovation and risk-aware decisions
Track regulatory and technology developments across the U.The ideal candidate already experiments with AI tools and helps evolve AI enabled workflows, including developing or enhancing L&C focused AI automations and agents
Support governance decisions around complex AI applications (e.g., JD + active CA or NY Bar (or eligible for CA or NY Registered In House Counsel registration)

• 3-4 years' experience in law focusing on technology transactions, data/privacy, or financial services regulatory counseling
• Demonstrated success designing or operationalizing AI governance frameworks with practical integration of regulatory requirements, information security and global risk
• Strong transactional foundation with experience negotiating IT vendor, SAAS and AI provider contracts and developing AI/cloud/data templates and playbooks, such as for AI enable contract markup and intelligence systems
• Proven ability to coordinate complex, multijurisdictional projects (U.S. hub with EU/Asia input)
• Demonstrated experimentation with AI tools in legal practice
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with credibility across senior investment, HR, client, and/or operations stakeholders

3-4 years' experience with a top tier law firm and/or a leading AI-focused financial services inhouse legal team

• Experience with generative AI in investment, client facing, or HR applications
• Familiarity with legal tech or contract AI platforms, and prior work building or experimenting with AI agents for Legal & Compliance use cases
• Regional familiarity with Europe and Asia regulatory considerations and/or additional language fluency

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Southern California Base Salary Range: $208,245-$354,017 New York Base Salary Range: $220,768-$375,306 In addition to a highly competitive base salary, per plan guidelines, restrictions and vesting requirements, you also will be eligible for an individual annual performance bonus, plus Capital's annual profitability bonus plus a retirement plan where Capital contributes 15% of your eligible earnings.
Temporary positions in the United States are excluded from the above mentioned compensation and benefit plans.

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