International AI Product Legal Counsel - Remote

At Hugging Face, we’re on a journey to democratize good AI. We are building the fastest growing platform for AI builders with over 5 million users & 100k organizations who collectively shared over 1M models, 300k datasets & 300k apps. Our open-source libraries have more than 400k+ stars on Github.

About the Role

As our Product Counsel, you will be assisting the Legal team with a wide variety of tasks:

• Product counseling on IP, privacy, licensing, open source
• Support launch of new features/products 
• Maintain all product-facing legal content
• Contract review of all types of contracts 
• Legal operations and automation 
• Legal watch various legal topics applied to AI: IP, privacy

About You

• You have strong experience as a product counsel in a fast-paced tech startup, ideally working on developer tools, AI/ML, or open source platforms;
• You have knowledge of US contract law, privacy and IP, and previous experience in contract review and negotiations;
• You thrive in a startup culture: scrappy, proactive, hands-on, collaborative, and solutions-oriented;
• You’ll enjoy working with us if you think strategically but have the capacity to be nimble, pragmatic, and creative to solve problems;
• You will be required to be autonomous, independent, and communicative as these are the keys to succeed in a decentralized organization like ours; 
• You are fully proficient in English, both written and spoken, and ideally in French too.

More about Hugging Face

We are actively working to build a culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusivity.We are intentionally building a workplace where people feel respected and supported—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We believe this is foundational to building a great company and community. Hugging Face is an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We value development.You will work with some of the smartest people in our industry. We are an organization that has a bias for impact and is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. We provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.

We care about your well-being. We offer flexible working hours and remote options. We offer health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents. We also offer parental leave and flexible paid time off.

We support our employees wherever they are. While we have office spaces in NYC and Paris, we’re very distributed and all remote employees have the opportunity to visit our offices. If needed, we’ll also outfit your workstation to ensure you succeed.

We want our teammates to be shareholders. All employees have company equity as part of their compensation package. If we succeed in becoming a category-defining platform in machine learning and artificial intelligence, everyone enjoys the upside.

We support the community. We believe major scientific advancements are the result of collaboration across the field. Join a community supporting the ML/AI community.

Requirements

• Knowledge of US contract law, privacy and IP; and basic knowledge in French, European law
• Native or bilingual in English
• Native or bilingual in French
• Experience in a fast-paced tech start-up
• Experience in supporting AI products/platforms