Senior AI Counsel
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AI Summary
Proof is the world's first identity-assured transaction management platform and we are on a mission to digitize trust for all of life’s most critical transactions.
About this role
Proof is the world's first identity-assured transaction management platform and we are on a mission to digitize trust for all of life’s most critical transactions. Developed by the same market leaders and experts who brought notarization online with Notarize℠, Proof offers trust in a digital world by verifying identities and securing transactions to protect businesses and their customers. Since 2015, we’ve completed many of the world’s first digital commerce transactions, including the first online real estate closing, online mortgage closing, online auto sale, and online will and we're still just getting started!
We're hiring a Senior AI Counsel to be the hands-on legal lead for privacy at Proof, with meaningful responsibility across AI governance and security law. Reporting directly to the Chief Privacy Officer, you'll partner closely with product, engineering, security, and go-to-market teams to keep privacy at the center of how we build.
This is a senior individual contributor role: deep subject matter expertise and broad cross-functional influence, without direct reports to start. Because Proof handles identity data including biometrics, government IDs, and recorded notarization sessions privacy is mission critical, and this role sits squarely at its center.
What You'll Do as our AI Counsel:
AI Governance
Advise on the legal and regulatory dimensions of Proof's use of AI and machine learning, including identity verification, biometric comparison, and fraud detection.
Help build and run Proof's AI governance framework: model risk, transparency, fairness, and vendor AI assessments.
Advise on automated decision-making, profiling, and bias-audit requirements, including New York City's Local Law 144 governing automated employment decision tools (AEDTs) and the California CPPA's automated decisionmaking technology (ADMT) regulations, as well as comparable obligations emerging in other states.
Review AI-related product features, training-data practices, and AI terms in customer and vendor agreements.
Privacy
Serve as Proof's legal advisor on global privacy and data protection, including U.S. state privacy laws (CCPA/CPRA and the growing set of state comprehensive laws), GLBA, biometric privacy laws such as BIPA, HIPAA where applicable, and GDPR/UK GDPR.
Manage and mature Proof's privacy program: policies, data maps, records of processing, privacy and data protection impact assessments, retention schedules, and privacy-by-design review of new products and features.
Work with commercial counsel on data processing agreements, standard contractual clauses, and privacy terms with customers, vendors, and partners.
Advise product and engineering on the handling of identity data, biometrics, and notarization recordings across the full data lifecycle.
Manage consumer and data-subject rights requests, privacy notices, consent flows, and cookie/tracking compliance.
Help the Government Affairs and Public Policy team to monitor the evolving privacy landscape and translate new obligations into practical, prioritized guidance for the business.
Assist with RFPs, due diligence, and audit responses.
Security & Incident Response
Partner with the security team on the legal aspects of information security, readiness, security questionnaires, and customer security commitments.
Advise on breach assessment and notification obligations, and help lead the legal response to security incidents.
Support vendor security and risk reviews and the contractual security requirements that flow from them.
Cross-functional
Act as a trusted advisor to executives and product leaders, delivering clear, risk-calibrated, business-minded counsel.
Build scalable training, playbooks, and self-serve resources that raise privacy and security fluency across the company.
Support regulatory inquiries, audits, and customer due diligence.
