Head of Legal – AI Lawfulness and Governance

We are looking for a Head of Legal with 7+ years of legal experience to be bylaw's first lawyer: a startup-ready builder with deep legal expertise and a real interest in AI. You will set the legal agenda for measuring whether AI follows the law, working closely with ML researchers and engineers.

What will you be doing?

• Set the legal agenda: choose which bodies of law, jurisdictions and agentic scenarios we evaluate first.

• Design realistic, long-context, multi-step agentic scenarios with researchers, and own the quality of our golden datasets.

• Co-author our papers, work with our advisory board, and grow our network of legal scholars.

• Help eval findings shape training methods that ingrain lawfulness, and make pre-deployment legal testing a best practice for AI risk management.

• Build bylaw's legal function, working with outside counsel where it makes sense.

Key Requirements

• JD and active bar admission in at least one US jurisdiction.

• 7+ years of legal experience, with deep expertise in at least one area.

• A track record of legal research and writing: published scholarship, briefs or opinions.

• Real interest in AI, and comfort working closely with ML researchers and engineers on technical problems.

• Startup-ready: you like building from zero, move fast and are happy to own both research and day-to-day legal work.