Top Senior Legal Jobs in NYC, NY

Manages legal operations with a focus on contract lifecycle management, Ironclad implementation and administration, Jira workflows, matter intake, reporting, process improvement, automation, and legal technology adoption. Partners with Legal and business stakeholders to design scalable workflows, maintain repositories and records, manage workload visibility, support training and change management, and improve department efficiency while handling confidential information.

Manage legal operations systems, processes, vendors, budgets, e-billing, knowledge repositories, eDiscovery, and cross-functional programs. Administer Ironclad and SimpleLegal, improve contract lifecycle management, support legal spend forecasting, and drive adoption of AI-enabled workflows. Partner with Legal, Finance, IT, Security, and business teams to evaluate and deploy responsible AI tools, manage legal department initiatives, and improve operational efficiency through reporting, documentation, training, and change management.

Senior Legal Counsel serving as Kit’s in-house expert for product, privacy, data, AI, compliance, commercial contracts, intellectual property, and customer security matters. The role advises product, engineering, sales, security, and executive teams; manages GDPR and data compliance; supports security questionnaires; and builds scalable legal playbooks, intake processes, templates, and self-service guidance. The position requires strong U.S. and European privacy law knowledge, commercial judgment, and the ability to operate independently in a remote technology company.

Provides senior legal support for complex software transactions, master services agreements, reseller and alliance arrangements, vendor contracts, and consulting agreements. Advises business, product, engineering, technology, and leadership teams on software, data, AI-enabled products, emerging AI regulations, and responsible AI frameworks. Drafts and negotiates agreements, develops legal strategies, supports process improvements, monitors legal developments, and delivers strategic counsel across North American business units.

Leads customer engagements for Icertis’s AI-powered contract intelligence platform. Advises enterprise legal teams, translates contract and LegalOps needs into platform solutions, coaches customers on adoption, develops AI playbooks and prompts, and provides product feedback. Helps build and scale the Legal AI Center of Excellence while managing stakeholder relationships, customer engagements, and best practices.

Lead customer engagements for Icertis’s Legal AI Center of Excellence. Advise enterprise customers on legal and operational needs, configure AI-powered contract review playbooks, develop prompts, coach users, and drive product adoption. Translate legal concepts into structured AI guidance, provide product roadmap feedback, and help build scalable Legal AI processes and best practices. The role requires commercial contract expertise, customer-facing communication, stakeholder management, and strong AI and technology fluency.

Advises U.S. commercial and government-contracting activities across the full contract lifecycle. Drafts and negotiates commercial agreements, reviews solicitations and government contracts, interprets FAR and DFARS requirements, manages compliance risks, and supports disputes, amendments, claims, and terminations. The role also develops contract templates and compliance procedures, monitors regulatory developments, manages external counsel, and partners with cross-functional teams in a remote, international environment.

Provides broad corporate legal support across governance, commercial and technology contracts, litigation, privacy, cybersecurity, product development, and regulatory risk. Drafts and negotiates SaaS, licensing, vendor, data processing, and trader agreements; manages outside counsel, litigation, subpoenas, corporate records, and legal research. Advises leadership and cross-functional teams, supports privacy and security incidents, and delivers internal legal and compliance training.

Supervises attorneys handling immigration removal defense, maintains a limited caseload, develops client-centered legal strategies, and supports training, outreach, screenings, and community advocacy. The role involves representing immigrants in detained and non-detained proceedings, appeals, and post-removal matters; tracking cases and funding data; and engaging with funders and collaborative partners. Candidates need substantial immigration and removal-defense experience, bar admission, strong advocacy skills, and a commitment to immigrant rights and trauma-informed practice.

Senior Counsel will support commercial, product, compliance, privacy, corporate, and AI-related legal matters. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating SaaS and commercial agreements, advising on privacy, security, compliance, and emerging AI regulations, managing legal templates and playbooks, supporting corporate governance and intellectual property, and implementing legal technology and automation tools. The role requires a U.S.-based attorney with substantial in-house SaaS or technology experience and active bar membership.

Serves as strategic legal counsel to Finance, People, Technology, and M&A teams. Advises on corporate, commercial, technology, privacy, cybersecurity, AI, employment, finance, transactions, investments, and financings. Drafts and negotiates agreements, manages legal workstreams, develops policies, assesses emerging risks, and trains business stakeholders. Partners with enterprise leadership to provide practical, business-focused legal guidance in a fast-moving environment.

Serves as strategic legal counsel to Finance, People, Technology, and M&A teams. Advises on corporate and commercial agreements, strategic transactions, investments, financings, technology, data privacy, cybersecurity, AI, employment matters, policies, and stakeholder training. Partners with enterprise leadership to provide practical, risk-calibrated guidance in a fast-moving environment.

Lead the company’s legal function as its first lawyer, managing acquisitions, corporate governance, financings, portfolio-company legal support, regulatory compliance, commercial risk, intellectual property, employment matters, insurance, and entity management. Build scalable legal infrastructure, negotiate and close transactions, oversee outside counsel, and support regulated aerospace and defense operations involving ITAR, EAR, FAR/DFARS, FAA, and environmental requirements.

Supports employment attorneys on complex labor, benefits, and human resources legal matters. Conducts legal research, monitors legislation, supports litigation and agency filings, coordinates outside counsel, manages legal tracking systems and document production, drafts employment documents and policies, and collaborates with HR on employee relations inquiries. Provides analysis, recommendations, project management, and process improvements while maintaining confidentiality and independently handling routine legal tasks.

Advise the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs on international legal and policy matters. Draft and review agreements, ensure compliance with city, state, and federal laws, coordinate with legal and agency partners, and analyze global policy developments affecting New Yorkers. Prepare strategic briefings, identify innovations from global cities, and support initiatives related to affordability, equity, migration, climate, and economic opportunity.

Manages trademark clearance searches, USPTO prosecution filings and Office Action responses, portfolio deadlines, TTAB and enforcement support, and client and foreign associate communications. Maintains accurate docketing records, prepares search reports and infringement materials, and independently manages multiple client matters in a remote, technology-forward environment.

Senior Commercial Counsel will partner with Sales and leadership to negotiate enterprise SaaS, procurement, partnership, and strategic agreements. The role manages high-volume transactions, develops contract templates and negotiation frameworks, advises on privacy and data protection matters, and helps implement AI-enabled legal operations. The attorney will support a growing technology company while balancing commercial objectives and legal risk.

Provides corporate legal support focused on Uniform Commercial Code matters, including lien searches, UCC filings, financing statements, amendments, continuations, terminations, database maintenance, and filing acknowledgments. Reviews security agreements, aircraft mortgages, leases, and related filings for jurisdictional compliance. Coordinates workflows and deadlines, trains team members, supports seminars, reviews junior staff work, and escalates complex issues while maintaining accurate time entries and current UCC knowledge.

As Lead Legal Engineer, you will lead high-impact client engagements, manage a team of Legal Engineers, and drive adoption of legal tech solutions while supporting client implementations and stakeholder management.

As a Commercial Counsel at Legora, you will draft and negotiate contracts, advise on commercial risk, and support legal operations across various jurisdictions.

Senior Legal Counsel serving as Kit’s sole in-house legal expert, advising on privacy, data, AI, compliance, product, intellectual property, commercial contracts, customer security requirements, and scalable legal operations. The role partners with executive, product, engineering, security, sales, finance, and people teams; develops playbooks and self-service processes; oversees GDPR and data compliance; supports security questionnaires; and reduces reliance on outside counsel.

Serve as Kit’s sole in-house legal expert, leading privacy, data, AI, compliance, product counsel, commercial contracts, intellectual property, and customer security support. Advise executive and cross-functional teams, oversee GDPR and data compliance, respond to security questionnaires, and create scalable legal playbooks, templates, intake processes, and self-service guidance. The role reduces reliance on outside counsel while enabling product development and business growth across SaaS, digital commerce, recommendations, and advertising.

Advise ads product, engineering, marketing, and sales teams on privacy, consumer protection, content regulation, and product development matters. Counsel the advertising business on GDPR, CCPA, international regulations, content policies, and risk management. Monitor regulatory trends and collaborate cross-functionally to support compliant ad-tech products and services.

Supports attorneys in a global restructuring and special situations practice by managing calendars, travel, client files, communications, billing, invoices, collections, expenses, conflict checks, engagement letters, court filings, fee applications, and client relationships. Coordinates business development events and provides administrative and document-processing support while maintaining accuracy, confidentiality, deadlines, and professionalism. Requires flexibility for overtime and occasional after-hours responsiveness.

Lead design, execution, and oversight of Mastercard's global sanctions and export control compliance frameworks. Responsibilities include policy and control enhancements, enterprise risk assessments, sanctions screening oversight, incident investigations, training and communications, due diligence for M&A, new product reviews, regulatory exam and audit support, and senior management reporting.