--- title: 'Head of Legal at Junior AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-legal-junior-ai-new-york-3nj2z14dds7d' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-09' --- # Head of Legal at Junior AI - **Company:** Junior AI - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/junior/b65ae434-5d8d-4028-a3d9-bce5a1d98f84 ## Job description ## About Junior We’re building cutting-edge LLM-powered workflow tools to supercharge investment research for private market investors and consultants. Our clients include most of the global top 10 private equity and consulting firms - Junior already powers hundreds of billions of dollars invested annually. We’re a profitable, bootstrapped company with a growing team of 70+ based in London, NYC and Sydney. You can read more about the company mission & values [here](https://myjunior.notion.site/join-junior-2026?source=copy_link). ## The role This is Junior's first dedicated legal hire. You'll own the legal, regulatory and compliance function: closing our largest contracts, and building on the standards, playbooks and function that let us sell to major private equity, consulting and financial institutions. You'll work directly with the founders and sit at the centre of commercial, product, security and corporate decisions. It will suit someone who is energised by building a function from scratch. ## What you'll do - Lead and negotiate our most important commercial agreements: enterprise MSAs, data-processing and data-licensing terms, and security schedules with global banks, advisors and content providers. Set the standards and playbooks that let the deal team move fast without adding risk - Build Junior’s AI-governance and compliance posture: recording-consent and two-party-consent frameworks across jurisdictions, model-training and data-use policies, and readiness for evolving AI regulation (including the EU AI Act) - Run data privacy end to end (UK GDPR, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA): DPAs, records of processing, sub-processor management, and privacy-by-design partnership with Product and Engineering - What you’ll oversee, with the support of external counsel where necessary - Partner with Security/CISO on customer trust: SOC 2, security questionnaires, DPIAs and the contractual commitments behind them - Build and protect IP: trade-secret and patent strategy across our transcription and knowledge-graph technology, and IP terms in customer and vendor contracts - Manage corporate and financing legal work: governance, board and cap-table support, financing rounds, and day-to-day vendor contracting - Support people operations: employment matters and immigration/visa work as we scale internationally ## About - You're admitted to a US bar. The majority of our commercial contracts are US-governed, and this is a hard requirement - 5-8 years of experience spanning private practice and in-house roles, with a strong transactional and commercial foundation. At least 2-4 years in practice - At least 2-4 years in-house experience at an AI, SaaS, or data-intensive technology company. You understand what it means to advise a business that is simultaneously a data processor and a data innovator - Deep expertise in data privacy: GDPR, UK GDPR, US equivalents, DPA negotiation, and subprocessor obligations. This is a recurring and substantive part of the role - A track record of negotiating complex B2B contracts with large institutional buyers, ideally in financial or professional services. You understand how their procurement and legal functions operate and where there is room to move - The ability to interpret contract language quickly and translate it into clear, actionable guidance for sales, product, and infosec colleagues. Speed and clarity matter as much as legal rigour - Comfortable operating as a sole legal function, with the judgment to know when to handle something internally and when to engage outside counsel - Strong commercial instincts. We are looking for a legal partner who helps the business move forward, not one who defaults to caution - UK law experience is helpful but not required. Some cross-jurisdictional awareness is important given our UK entity and global European client base ## About Junior AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Junior AI provides voice intelligence and AI-powered analysis for M&A teams, turning expert call transcripts into structured, searchable knowledge. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, based on "seed to Series A" language on careers page) - **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, USA - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: AI-powered software for investment research, M&A diligence, and private equity workflows - Target customers: B2B – investment professionals, private equity firms, corporate development teams, investment banks, management consultants (MBB, Big 4, MegaCap PE Funds, global investment banks) - Mission or purpose statement: "Using AI to streamline investment research" (from about page) ## Products & Services - **Junior Platform**: Voice intelligence platform that records, transcribes, and analyzes expert calls, diligence interviews, and pipeline discussions. Includes: - Best-in-class transcription with structured extraction of expert call insights - Instant key takeaways automatically generated after each call - Intelligent search across transcripts to pinpoint relevant insights - Quantitative tracking to monitor findings across interviews - Custom GPT-based synthesis for querying and summarizing expert input - **Alexandria**: A custom conversational library that centralizes all notes, searchable by deal, sector, or attendees. - **Compliance Tools**: Real-time compliance oversight, programmatic MNPI detection, zero data retention agreements with underlying model providers, data retention controls, secure data hosting. - **Integrations**: Calendar (Outlook/Gmail), recording bot for Zoom/Teams/GMeet/Webex, direct pipelines from leading expert networks, APIs for data export. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: 30% month-over-month growth (from careers page); "trusted by thousands of consultants, investors, and bankers" - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed - **Growth Signals**: - 30% MoM growth - 24 team members (per careers page; Built In lists 111 total employees – conflicting reports, likely reflecting different timeframes) - "Seed to Series A" trajectory over 18 months - Expanding product features (e.g., "Every data source" coming soon) ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native for M&A**: Custom NER engine trained on deal workflows, recognizing entities that matter to investors and advisors. - **Enterprise-grade compliance**: Programmatic MNPI detection, zero data retention with model providers, GDPR-aligned controls, secure hosting on Junior’s infrastructure. - **Deep integration**: Direct pipelines from leading expert networks, calendar and meeting platform bots, APIs for data warehouse connectivity. - **Speed and focus**: Small team, weekly deployments, fast iteration – "Speed is our competitive advantage." ## Strategic Focus - Building the "AI brain for M&A" – turning messy transcripts into actionable intelligence - Expanding data ingestion methods and source connectivity (recording bot, expert networks, file uploads, manual notes) - Scaling from seed to Series A while maintaining velocity and customer obsession - Institutional knowledge capture – reducing rework and increasing IP value ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: "Small team, big ownership" – end-to-end ownership from conception to deployment; ship meaningful work immediately - **Values**: Ship Fast, Show Your Work, Open by Default, Customer First, Velocity over Perfection, Meritocracy, Radically Transparent, Own It - **Work environment**: In-office at NYC headquarters (HQ in New York, all jobs listed as "In-Office" on Built In) - **Engineering culture**: Weekly deployments, "fix fast", AI-native tech stack, direct customer interaction - **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but emphasis on solving real problems, no politics, visible roadmaps and metrics - **Growth**: 30% MoM growth, seed-stage startup with clear product-market fit, opportunity to shape the company ## Sources 1. [junior.ai](https://junior.ai/) 2. [junior.ai/about](https://junior.ai/about) 3. [junior.ai/careers](https://junior.ai/careers) 4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/junior](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/junior) 5. 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