Attorney - AI Innovation

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Job Overview

A company seeks an Attorney – AI Innovation in Charlotte, North Carolina, to provide legal guidance on artificial intelligence use cases and strategic technology initiatives. The attorney will assess and manage legal risks throughout the AI lifecycle, support governance and oversight processes, and advise on emerging regulatory requirements. The role involves close collaboration with legal, technology, risk, compliance, and business teams to facilitate responsible AI adoption and provide practical guidance on complex and evolving technology matters.

Duties

• Serve as a legal advisor for proposed, developing, and deployed AI capabilities across the organization.
• Review AI use cases, identify legal issues, document legal analysis, evaluate proposed mitigations, and escalate novel or significant concerns.
• Assess legal considerations involving privacy, data use, intellectual property, explainability, transparency, fairness, human oversight, and recordkeeping.
• Evaluate third-party dependencies and legal risks associated with the appropriate use of AI-generated outputs.
• Develop issue-spotting guides, legal review templates, decision frameworks, escalation criteria, and approval memoranda to promote consistent AI reviews.
• Support public policy, industry, and advocacy initiatives by analyzing legal developments and translating complex AI issues into practical legal and policy positions.
• Advise on non-AI technology matters involving technology deployments, platforms, infrastructure, vendor-enabled technologies, data-intensive solutions, cloud and SaaS capabilities, and automation tools.
• Monitor emerging AI and technology laws, regulations, standards, and guidance and translate developments into practical recommendations.
• Support regulatory inquiries, examinations, audits, internal reviews, governance activities, and other oversight matters involving AI and technology.
• Recommend enhancements to governance processes, internal controls, policies, training, and legal risk management practices.
• Develop reusable legal guidance, playbooks, training materials, and other resources to strengthen technology-related legal capabilities.
• Share knowledge and provide training or mentoring to legal colleagues and other internal stakeholders.

Requirements

• At least five years of relevant legal experience.
• Demonstrated ability to serve as both a legal advisor and process partner in a regulated environment.
• Experience designing, improving, or supporting workflows, governance routines, documentation standards, escalation procedures, or approval processes.
• Strong judgment and analytical capabilities when addressing novel or ambiguous issues involving evolving law, technology, policy, and risk.
• Experience leading discussions with senior business, legal, risk, compliance, and technology stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and manage multiple concurrent matters while collaborating across organizational functions and levels.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to explain complex legal concepts clearly and practically to non-legal audiences.
• Experience with or strong interest in artificial intelligence, responsible AI frameworks, data governance, cloud and SaaS technologies, software, or platform-related issues in a regulated enterprise environment is preferred.
• Experience supporting regulatory inquiries, examinations, audits, governance committees, control processes, issue management, or policy implementation is preferred.
• Familiarity with emerging AI regulatory frameworks and standards, including the EU AI Act, NIST AI Risk Management Framework, state AI laws, privacy and cybersecurity frameworks, and financial services regulatory expectations is preferred.
• Experience creating legal guidance, templates, playbooks, training, governance routines, metrics, or other repeatable tools is preferred.
• Ability to work effectively with technical stakeholders and translate legal requirements into actionable guidance.

Education

• Juris Doctor or equivalent doctorate-level law degree.

Certifications

• Active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar or the District of Columbia.

Skills

• Artificial intelligence and emerging technology legal advisory.
• Responsible AI governance and risk management.
• Privacy, data governance, and intellectual property analysis.
• Technology and regulatory compliance.
• Interpretation of applicable laws, rules, regulations, and standards.
• Legal drafting and writing.
• Governance and issue management.
• Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
• Executive-level communication and presentation.
• Legal risk assessment and practical problem-solving.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary incentive opportunity.
• Paid time off.
• Employee benefits and support resources.

Company info

BCG Attorney Search
400 Perimeter Center Ter NE Ste 900
Atlanta
Georgia
United States 30346
Phone : 770-450-2000
Fax : (213) 895-7306