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Principal Corporate Counsel, AI & Research

Finance, Banking & Legal · Legal Services · Compliance & Regulatory · Corporate Law

In short

The AI & Research CELA team at Microsoft is seeking a Principal Corporate Counsel to support their AI-forward healthcare businesses. This role involves providing legal support for AI-enabled healthcare products, advising on regulatory requirements, privacy, and transactional matters, and contributing to responsible AI development.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a trusted legal advisor to the Microsoft AI product engineering team and related business teams.
  • Provide strategic product counseling on emerging legal and regulatory issues involving AI and frontier technologies, with a focus on healthcare-specific laws.
  • Develop creative, practical approaches to enable innovation and global scale while managing legal, regulatory, and reputational risk.
  • Collaborate with subject-matter experts across Microsoft to interpret complex requirements and recommend courses of action.
  • Maintain strong, trusted-advisor relationships with business clients, engineering leaders, and executives.
  • Monitor developments in AI, healthcare regulation, privacy, and related fields and advise clients on their implications.
  • Partner with colleagues to promote consistency in Microsoft’s approach to AI development and deployment, particularly where healthcare requirements intersect with broader emerging-technology issues.

Requirements

  • Juris Doctor Degree or international equivalent degree AND 5+ years experience as a practicing attorney at a law firm or an in-house legal department OR equivalent experience.
  • Active license to practice law in a jurisdiction and capable of meeting admission requirements in relevant jurisdiction.

Desired Qualifications

  • Team player who enjoys partnering with cross-functional teams to solve complex issues in a highly matrixed environment.
  • Desire and ability to work as part of a diverse and inclusive team.
  • Legal experience in advising clients on healthcare AI and other cutting-edge AI and emerging technologies.
  • Ability to think creatively and strategically, and a sense of humor.
  • Ability to deliver impact through superior collaboration both independently and in a team.
  • Ability to adapt to and facilitate a team-based approach to knowledge sharing in a flexible environment that emphasizes collaboration and team performance over management hierarchy.
  • Highly motivated self-starter with demonstrated ability to work efficiently, meet demanding deadlines and manage competing priorities, and stay calm under challenging circumstances.
  • An aptitude for and interest in understanding technology, including a desire to apply technology, including AI, to improve the team’s legal work and improve efficiency.

Benefits

  • The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $132,200 - $232,800 per year.
  • For specific work locations in the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range is USD $165,800 - $248,600 per year.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Skills

AIHealthcarePrivacyProduct DevelopmentRegulatory Compliance
#AI#Healthcare#Product Attorney#Corporate Counsel#Emerging Technologies#Regulatory
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Company

Microsoft

Job Posted

1 day ago

Employment Type

Full Time

Work mode

Hybrid

Salary

US$132,200–232,800 / year

Hours per week

4

Experience Level

Mid-Senior

Locations

United States

Qualification

Master

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