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# Associate General Counsel - AI Product & Privacy at Arena Intelligence, Inc.

- **Company:** Arena Intelligence, Inc.
- **Location:** Bay Area
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/arena/6805896b-c5ff-412d-9490-0f0f0c6fd149

## Job description

## About Arena Intelligence

Arena is the platform for evaluating how AI models perform in the real world. Founded by researchers from UC Berkeley's SkyLab, we're on a mission to measure and advance the frontier of AI for real-world use, and to build the foundation for everyone to understand, shape, and benefit from it.

Tens of millions of people use Arena each month to evaluate how frontier systems handle the work they actually do. The preferences they share power the most transparent, rigorous, and human-centered evaluations in AI. Leading AI labs, enterprises, and independent researchers rely on our work and open datasets to understand how models behave in real workflows: agentic coding, creative generation, professional productivity, and beyond. We go beyond leaderboards and decompose what human experience reveals about AI, so models advance toward the work people actually do.

We're a team of researchers, academics, builders, and creatives from UC Berkeley, Google, Stanford, and DeepMind. We seek truth, move fast, and value craftsmanship, curiosity, and impact over hierarchy. We're building a company where thoughtful, curious people from all backgrounds can do their best work together, in an office culture that radiates excellence, energy, and focus. You'll

- Counsel Product & Engineering: Serve as the embedded legal partner to product and engineering teams, advising on privacy regulation, intellectual property, enterprise use cases, consumer protection, and more from concept through launch.
- Lead Privacy Compliance: Own Arena's global privacy program, including compliance with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and the broader international privacy landscape with an emphasis on privacy-by-design and product architecture.
- Drive AI Governance: Advise on the responsible development of AI products and emerging regulations related to AI model, agent, and tool development and deployment. Help shape how the company navigates novel questions at the intersection of privacy, AI, and human evaluation.
- Support Commercial Transactions: Design and maintain the contractual and operational frameworks governing the company’s data flows. Negotiate privacy provisions and agreements with customers, partners, and vendors.
- Process & Technology Optimization: Build and scale our privacy and product legal processes, creating playbooks, and implementing systems to support a high-growth organization. Build agents and internal software to support our operations, and procure cutting-edge legal tech tools that allow us to integrate home-grown and vendor-built software with ease. You'll have
- Experience: 8+ years of legal experience in privacy and product counseling at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house legal department, ideally with experience counseling on consumer products.
- Education: JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred) in good standing.
- Privacy Expertise: A proven track record of independently building and running a global privacy program, with deep, hands-on familiarity with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and cross-border data transfer mechanisms.
- Product Counseling: Demonstrated ability to advise product and engineering teams in real time, translating legal requirements into practical, build-ready guidance without slowing the team down.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to think strategically at a high level and from deep in the details to drive complex problem-solving and develop creative, business-forward solutions.
- Risk Calibration: Ability to calibrate risk, distinguish business from legal risk, and communicate it clearly to executive, product, and technical audiences.
- Collaboration: Roll-up-your-sleeves attitude to tackle projects large and small with a low-ego, collaborative approach across the organization.
- Agility and Organization: Ability to think quickly in a fast-paced environment with excellent organizational and communication skills, particularly under launch and regulatory deadlines.
- Technical Fluency: Deep interest in artificial intelligence, generative AI, and machine learning technology, with the ability to engage effectively with technical teams on data architecture and evaluation issues.
- Vibe Coding Experience: Ability to build and iterate on your own tools and a creative problem solving approach to building human-in-the-loop workflows that allow us to scale legal advice and work product. Experience working with tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Replit, Loveable, and/or Retool. Bonus Points
- Experience advising on consumer products or multi-sided marketplaces and building global privacy programs focused on controller responsibility.
- Experience advising on de-identification and anonymization data pipelines.

## What we offer

- We offer competitive compensation and equity aligned to the markets where our team members are based. The base salary range will depend on the candidate’s permanent work location.
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and additional support programs.
- The opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI with a small, mission-driven team
- A culture that values transparency, trust, and community impact

Come help build the space where anyone can explore and help shape the future of AI.

Arena Intelligence provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

## About Arena Intelligence, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Arena Intelligence, Inc. (formerly LMArena/Chatbot Arena) operates a public, community-driven platform for evaluating large language models through anonymous head-to-head comparisons and voting.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, total $250M funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2025 (company incorporation; platform launched April 2023)
- **Founders**: Wei-Lin Chiang, Anastasios N. Angelopoulos, Ion Stoica

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI evaluation and research infrastructure
- **Target customers**: AI labs (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, DeepSeek), enterprises, researchers, and the general AI community (B2B and B2C)
- **Mission**: Fuel the world’s most trusted AI evaluation platform, using real-world community votes to benchmark model performance

## Products & Services
- **LMArena Platform**: Public web-based platform where users enter prompts for two anonymous models, vote on the better response, and then see the models’ identities. Supports text, vision, web dev, search, video, and image modalities. Over 50 million votes collected.
- **Max (Model Router)**: An intelligent orchestrator that routes each user prompt to the most capable model for that specific prompt, powered by 5+ million real-world votes.
- **Enterprise Evaluation Product**: Launched September 2025, provides rigorous, reproducible evaluations for AI labs and enterprises, generating actionable feedback on model performance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $100M annualized revenue run rate as of June 2026 (achieved within 8 months of enterprise offering launch)
- **Total Funding**: $250M (Seed $100M led by Andreessen Horowitz and UC Investments in June 2025; Series A $150M led by Felicis and UC Investments in January 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Felicis, UC Investments, Andreessen Horowitz, The House Fund, LDVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Laude Ventures
- **Growth Signals**: Community grew 25x in one year; 50 million votes, 400+ model evaluations, 145k open-source battle data points; operates in 5 countries (US, Germany, UK, UAE, Canada); headcount of 49 with +10.5% monthly growth

## Competitive Advantages
- **Community-driven data**: Trusted by major AI labs for real-world, reproducible evaluations; 10M+ community members contribute diverse prompts and votes
- **First-mover & brand**: The de facto public leaderboard for LLM comparison; used for pre-release model testing (e.g., DeepSeek R1, GPT-5 "summit", Gemini 2.5 Flash Image "Nano Banana")
- **Open science**: Academic partnerships program funding independent research on AI evaluation methodology
- **Revenue velocity**: Achieved $100M ARR in under a year from enterprise launch, indicating strong product-market fit

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the platform with new features and modalities (video, search, web dev)
- Deepen enterprise offerings and model routing capabilities (Max)
- Expand academic partnerships to advance the science of AI evaluation
- Continue to serve as the gold standard for real-world model performance benchmarking

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-moving, research-driven startup with roots at UC Berkeley; emphasis on community, open source, and rigorous science
- **Team**: 49 employees, 41% technical (Data Engineers, ML Scientists, ML Engineers, Software Engineers), with talent from top AI labs and universities (Berkeley RISE Lab, Google, Apple)
- **Growth**: High-growth environment (revenue run rate doubled rapidly, headcount growing ~10% monthly)
- **Location**: Headquarters in San Francisco (2261 Market St., Ste 85064); offices also in SF (two additional locations). Likely hybrid/office-based given SF HQ and local employee concentration.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but typical for VC-backed startup (equity, competitive comp, impact on foundational AI infrastructure)

## Sources
1. [arena.ai](https://arena.ai/)
2. [arena.ai/blog/series-a](https://arena.ai/blog/series-a/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/arenaai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arenaai)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/arena](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/arena)

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