Job Description
Reports to the CEO
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About Verita
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Verita AI (Verita Artificial Intelligence Corporation) is a San Francisco company powering
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the expert data layer behind frontier AI. We recruit, vet, and manage a global network of
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domain experts, from music producers to accountants to insurance specialists, who
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produce the training and evaluation data that leading AI labs depend on. Our platform
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handles expert onboarding, verification, time tracking, and payments at scale across
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dozens of jurisdictions.
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The Role
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We are hiring our first General Counsel to own everything legal at Verita. Today, legal
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work is spread across multiple outside firms and the founders’ inboxes: customer and
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vendor contract negotiations, a global contractor workforce, privacy obligations in
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multiple jurisdictions, and the IP questions that come with AI training data. You will bring
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this work inside the company, build durable legal processes, and act as a strategic partner
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to the founders on our most important negotiations.
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This is a role with real ownership. You will be the entire legal department on day one, with
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meaningful outside counsel budget behind you.
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What You’ll Do
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• Customer contracts. Own the commercial paper that runs the business: draft and
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negotiate MSAs and SOWs with sophisticated AI lab customers, with sharp terms on
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payment obligations, verification and audit rights, termination, IP assignment, and
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limitation of liability, and fix the gaps in our existing templates.
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• Disputes and litigation. If disputes arise, you should know how to handle them end
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to end: setting strategy, directing outside counsel, and knowing when to settle versus
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fight.
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• Global contractor workforce. Own the legal architecture for a large international
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contractor network: worker classification (US and abroad), contractor agreements,
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NDAs and IP assignment, background screening requirements, EOR relationships (e.g.,
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Deel), and compliance for workforce monitoring tools.
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• Privacy and data protection. Build and run our privacy program across GDPR, UK
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GDPR, and US state law: handle data subject access requests, international data
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transfers, consent requirements for monitoring software, and the data commitments
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we make to enterprise customers. Partner with our security consultants on SOC 2 and
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customer security reviews.
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• Intellectual property. Navigate the IP questions at the heart of AI data work: work
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product assignment, training data provenance, publicity and likeness rights, and
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confidentiality obligations that run in both directions.
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• Employment. Support offer letters, equity grants, payroll and tax compliance
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questions, and employment matters as the team grows.
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• Corporate. Keep the Delaware corporate house in order: board support, governance,
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financing readiness, and corporate compliance.
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• Outside counsel management. Consolidate work currently spread across several
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firms, decide what you handle yourself, and manage outside spend against a budget.• Process. Contract lifecycle management, signing authority, playbooks, and record
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retention, so the company scales without scaling its legal risk.
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What We’re Looking For
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• J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar membership (California, or eligible to
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practice in California as registered counsel).
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• 4+ years of experience combining training at a leading law firm with time as company
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counsel at a startup, ideally a marketplace, staffing, HR technology, or AI data
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business.
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• Deep commercial contracting experience with enterprise counterparties, including
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negotiating directly against skilled opposing counsel.
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• Real experience managing disputes: you have run strategy before and during litigation
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through outside counsel and negotiated settlements with real money at stake.
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• Fluency in worker classification (contractor vs. employee) in the US and
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internationally.
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• Working knowledge of GDPR and US privacy law, including DSAR handling and
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employee/contractor monitoring rules.
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• A pragmatic, commercial risk instinct: you give clear answers, put them in writing
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quickly, and know the difference between a blocker and a footnote.
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• Comfort operating alone: triaging a demand letter in the morning, redlining an MSA at
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noon, and answering a GDPR request in the afternoon.
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Nice to Have
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• Experience with AI training data, right of publicity/likeness licensing, or content
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licensing for model training.
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• Prior experience as the first legal hire or sole counsel at a startup.
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• Experience standing up a compliance program (SOC 2, privacy certifications)
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alongside security teams.
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Compensation and Location
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Competitive salary and meaningful equity, commensurate with experience. Based in San Francisco; we work in person.