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About the Role
Join AI & Research CELA, the legal team supporting Microsoft’s development of emerging and frontier technologies, with a primary focus on AI-forward healthcare businesses. Provide legal support to Microsoft’s healthcare product business, partnering with engineering and business leaders building the next generation of AI-enabled products and services. This role is at the intersection of frontier AI, product development, and a compelling market opportunity, helping teams move quickly and responsibly from technological innovation to products that can operate and scale globally.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted legal advisor to the Microsoft AI product engineering team, and related engineering and business teams developing AI-enabled products and services.
- Provide strategic product counseling on emerging legal and regulatory issues involving AI and other frontier technologies, with particular responsibility for healthcare-specific laws and regulations and requirements applicable to Microsoft’s regulated healthcare customers.
- Help clients develop creative, practical approaches that enable innovation and global scale while appropriately managing legal, regulatory, and reputational risk.
- Collaborate with subject-matter experts across Microsoft to interpret complex and evolving requirements and recommend a clear course of action to senior business and engineering leaders.
- Maintain strong, trusted-advisor relationships with business clients, engineering leaders, and executives.
- Monitor developments across AI, healthcare regulation, privacy, and related fields and advise clients on their implications for Microsoft’s products and strategy.
- Partner with colleagues across AI & Research CELA and the broader CELA organization 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.
- 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.
Skills
- AI
- Healthcare AI
- Emerging technologies
- Product counseling
- Healthcare-specific regulatory requirements
- Privacy
- Transactional support
- Legal and policy issues
- Responsible AI development and deployment
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Principal Corporate Counsel
- 5+ years experience as a practicing attorney
Education Level
- Juris Doctor Degree or international equivalent degree
Salary/Compensations
- USD $132,200 - $232,800 per year (U.S. typical base pay range)
- USD $165,800 - $248,600 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area)
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
About the Company
- Microsoft Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) AI & Research team develops and advances emerging and frontier technologies.
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
- If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.