Regulatory and Litigation Counsel, AI Safety

Minimum qualifications:

• JD, LL.B., equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status) in the state in which the position is located.
  
• 10 years of experience with legal, regulatory, and litigation matters, including strategically addressing, minimizing and avoiding regulatory risk.
• Experience engaging with regulators, including States AG, FTC, DOJ, and global data protection or consumer protection authorities.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience developing, evaluating, and maintaining programs that ensure products comply with laws, regulations, and external commitments.
• Experience working with technology companies and ability to understand complex technical issues.
• Experience with working with public company boards and their counsel, including special committees and audit committees.
• Knowledge of privacy, consumer protection, antitrust, contract, content moderation/safety, or IP law issues in a technology context.
• Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to be action-oriented and seek to meet the highest standards of integrity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, time management, problem solving, and investigative skills.

About the job

As Corporate Counsel at Google, you work on the most exciting legal issues as disruptive technological innovations require creative and proactive legal guidance. You're part of a whip-smart group of in-house lawyers and the projects and cases you take on challenge you to think big and differently. You are collaborative -- ready to partner in initiatives that influence all aspects of the business and work with Googlers from all over the company. As an integrated part of the team, you proactively assess legal risks and advise on products that will not only move information into the 21st century, but move information law forward as well.

As a Regulatory and Litigation Counsel, AI Safety you’ll join a global team that leads the strategy for defending the company in responses to governments and regulators. Artificial intelligence will be one of humanity’s most transformative inventions. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority. Emerging AI safety issues present novel legal and policy questions at the intersection of rapid innovation and increasing regulatory scrutiny. In this role, you will be working as part of a cross-functional team to address those issues and providing legal guidance to help Google meet its commitment to bold and responsible AI innovation.

20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Lead responses to regulatory inquiries, investigations, litigation, enforcement actions, and overlapping civil matters.
• Oversee the collection and production of accurate information in external submissions and disclosures.
• Provide legal advice on government and regulatory audits and exams.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .