Contracts Counsel

Who You Are:

You are an agile thinker who is energized by creative problem solving and building things.  You enjoy reviewing and negotiating a broad range of contracts involving technology, services, and day-to-day operations. You are able to listen to a group’s business needs, identify priorities, and maximize business results. You are able to juggle competing demands from many interested and energetic stakeholders.

Who We Are: 

We are an existing legal team of two lawyers and one contracts and procurement manager. We are collegial and collaborative. We like to make up fun project names for our strategic initiatives. We work in a hybrid setting and like to collaborate in person. We all work with a large amount of autonomy. As a team, we are slightly more pro-dog than pro-cat. We are passionate about Ai2’s mission.

Your Next Challenge:

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of standard procurement and operations agreements, such as NDAs, vendor services, IT, software/SaaS, hardware, facilities, and  events
• Prepare exploratory and strategic agreements for various projects and initiatives, including MOUs, data sharing, and collaboration agreements
• Review and draft product EULAs, terms of use, and related documentation
• Create and improve contract templates
• Review open source licenses for software and AI projects
• Provide support across Ai2’s activities ensuring that legal issues, contracts, disputes, and complex transactions are conducted within the due diligence of the legal framework

What You’ll Need:

Education/Certifications

• Minimum Degree required: JD
• Licensed to practice law in Washington State

Required

• 3+ years of transactional experience in a law firm or corporate environment
• Proficiency in technology transactions, including software and IP licensing
• Self-starter: Does not need daily directions or close supervision to make decisions
• Skilled in working with ambiguity
• Start-up mentality; adaptable, can pivot quickly
• Comfortable identifying and solving for risks 
• Ability to adjust rapidly to new strategies and approaches for building support in a fast-moving environment
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills: polished, concise, catered messages to different audiences
• Ability to build strong relationships with leaders at all levels to obtain successful outcomes and move the business forward
• Google Suite product experience
• Ability to work on complex issues where problems are not clearly defined and where fundamental principles do not fully apply

Preferred

• Experience and/or interest in project management to establish or improve processes and streamline legal team efforts with existing workflows in the company

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• Occasionally required to remain seated in a normal position for long periods of time.
• Regularly required to walk short distances
• Regularly required to maintain balance while walking, standing, crouching, or running.
• Routinely required to reach up and out with hands and arms.

A Little More About Ai2:

Ai2 is a Seattle based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen. Our mission is building breakthrough AI to solve the world’s biggest problems. We develop foundational AI research and innovation to deliver real-world impact through large-scale open models, data, robotics, conservation, and beyond.

In addition to Ai2’s core mission, we also aim to contribute to humanity through our treatment of each member of the Ai2 Team. Some highlights are:

• We are a learning organization – because everything Ai2 does is ground-breaking, we are learning every day. Similarly, through weekly Ai2 Academy lectures, a wide variety of world-class AI experts as guest speakers, and our commitment to your personal on-going education, Ai2 is a place where you will have opportunities to continue learning alongside your coworkers. 
• We value diversity - We seek to hire, support, and promote people from all genders, ethnicities, and all levels of experience regardless of age. We particularly encourage applications from women, non-binary individuals, people of color, members of the LGBTQA+ community, and people with disabilities of any kind. 
• We value inclusion - We understand the value that people's individual experiences and perspectives can bring to an organization, and we are building a culture in which all voices are heard, respected and considered.
• We emphasize a healthy work/life balance – we believe our team members are happiest and most productive when their work/life balance is optimized. While we value powerful research results which drive our mission forward, we also value dinner with family, weekend time, and vacation time. We offer generous paid vacation and sick leave as well as family leave.
• We are collaborative and transparent – we consider ourselves a team, all moving with a common purpose. We are quick to cheer our successes, and even quicker to share and jointly problem solve our failures.
• We are in Seattle – and our office is on the water! We have mountains, we have lakes, we have four seasons, we bike to work, we have a vibrant theater scene, and we have so much else. We even have kayaks for you to paddle right outside our front door. We welcome interest from applicants from outside of the United States.
• We are friendly– chances are you will like every one of the 200+ (and growing) people who work here. We do. 

Ai2 is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. You may view the related Know Your Rights compliance poster and the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision by clicking on their corresponding links. 

This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities to the full extent required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you feel you need a reasonable accommodation pursuant to the ADA, you are encouraged to contact us at recruiting@allenai.org.

Benefits:

• Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and an employee assistance program.
• Team members are able to enroll in our voluntary life insurance program, our voluntary accidental death and dismemberment program, our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
• Team members are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
• Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses and can participate in the long-term incentive plan.

Note: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the team members(s) of this position. Team members will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the team member(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.