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# Senior AI Product & Partnerships Counsel at Runway

- **Company:** Runway
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/runway-ml/4c1990b2-b2f9-495e-8a35-f9af295c475a

## Job description

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science.

We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world.

World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.

Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.

*Titles posted to our careers page are updated regularly to best advertise the role and expected seniority, but internally we have a flat titling system with two types of titles: one for individual contributors and one for people managers.

## About the role

Preferable to have someone near one of our offices in NYC or San Francisco, but open to hiring around the US for the right candidate.

Join the frontier of shaping generative AI video and its legal landscape as an early lawyer at Runway wearing multiple hats. As AI Product & Partnerships Counsel, your mission is to enable the company to ship better products faster and accelerate product and data partnerships and other go-to-market deals. You are a self-starter who thrives at getting things done in fast-paced, unstructured environments. You have a passion for building scalable initiatives across our product and commercial legal workstreams.

You will serve as a strategic partner to product, engineering, partnerships, sales, marketing, and the Runway Executive Team. Comfort working within a highly technical, rapidly evolving area of the law is a must.

## What you’ll do

- Become a go-to advisor for product legal matters, from design to launch, by providing pragmatic, product-motivated advice
- Accelerate AI product development and integrations by building playbooks and streamlining legal review of partnership deals, including data partnerships, IP and model licensing, procurement, reseller, and marketplace agreements
- Accelerate AI product adoption by closing deals with Runway’s strategic partners and customers. These include B2B SaaS customer contracts for our generative AI SaaS platform and APIs, DPAs, and order forms.
- Dive into the technical aspects of our generative AI products to learn them inside and out, to inform your advice to the business
- Closely follow (and even shape) technical, legal, and policy developments in AI and translate them into practical product guidance
- Implement practices allowing our legal team to scale our impact on the business, including enablement, self-serve resources, and AI-enabled automation

## What you’ll need

- 6+ years of relevant experience, including in-house experience at a fast-paced technology company
- Experience advising product development leaders and executives across a broad range of issues, especially IP and privacy
- Experience closing partnership and go-to-market deals, such as data partnerships; IP and model licensing; robotics, hardware, and compute agreements; reseller; and other partner, customer, and vendor deals
- Experience providing practical recommendations to senior leaders with limited time and information
- Sound judgment in ambiguity: track record of gathering key information quickly and helping the business make smart decisions
- Deep sense of ownership, whether you're advising our CEO on a novel legal issue or testing your new AI-enabled workflow for the nth time
- Bias for action: why put something off if you can do it now?
- Demonstrated interest in AI, creative tools or both
- J.D. and admission in good standing with at least one state bar

## Nice to have

- Generative AI models and agentic workflow understanding and interest
- Experience closing strategic, IP-heavy partnerships
- Experience in B2C and B2B industries and in product-led and enterprise businesses
- Experience closing B2B SaaS customer deals
- Big Law and/or hypergrowth tech startup experience

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide. There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range. Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Working at Runway [Great things come from great teams.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwmj4ato2kw&ab_channel=Runway) We’d love to hear from you. We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply. More about Runway

- [Universal World Simulator](https://runwayml.com/world-simulator.html)
- [GWM-1](https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1)
- [Gen-4.5](https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gen-4.5)
- [General World Models](https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-general-world-models)
- [Robotics SDK](https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#robotics-section)
- [Conversational Real-time Agents](https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gwm-1#avatars-section)
- [Runway Studios](https://runwayml.com/studios)

We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work: [Crain's](https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/best-places-work-2023) | [InHerSight](https://www.inhersight.com/companies/best/city/new-york-city-ny) | [BuiltIn NYC](https://builtin.com/awards/new-york-city/2024/best-places-to-work) | [INC](https://www.inc.com/best-workplaces/2024)

## About Runway

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Runway builds artificial intelligence to simulate the world, focusing on general world models for video generation, robotics, and interactive experiences.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Corporate Minority funding stage; total raised $859.5M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (79 Walker Street, Floor 5)
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on provided sources (widely reported as Cristóbal Valenzuela, Anastasis Germanidis, and Alejandro Matamala)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Video Generation, World Simulation, Robotics
- **Target customers**: B2B – media & entertainment, film production, architecture, robotics research; also creative professionals and enterprises
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science." – Runway believes world models are the path to general-purpose simulation, enabling progress in robotics, disease research, and scientific discovery.

## Products & Services
- **[Gen-4.5](https://runwayml.com/)**: World's top-rated video generation model – cinematic, highly realistic outputs with precise creative control (SaaS / API).
- **[GWM-1](https://runwayml.com/)**: State-of-the-art General World Model for real-time simulation. Three variants:
  - **GWM Worlds**: Interactive, explorable environments.
  - **GWM Avatars**: Real-time conversational video agents (API) – customizable appearance, voice, personality, knowledge, and actions.
  - **GWM Robotics**: Learned world models for robotic manipulation and physical interaction simulation.
- **Runway Studios**: Production arm exploring AI integration in film (announced partnership with Lionsgate).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $859.5M (as of latest Corporate Minority round)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: NVIDIA (strategic partnership on Vera Rubin architecture), Lionsgate (film production partnership), General Atlantic, Felicis, Fidelity Investments, and 36+ others.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Partnership with NVIDIA to accelerate video and world models.
  - Partnership with Lionsgate to explore AI in film production.
  - Gen-4.5 recognized as top-rated video model.
  - Launch of GWM-1 (three variants) expanding into robotics and conversational AI.
  - Used by leading organizations across industries (e.g., architecture firm KPF).

## Competitive Advantages
- **General World Models (GWM-1)**: Unlike pure language models, Runway builds models that understand, perceive, generate, and act in the world – a clear moat for simulation and robotics.
- **Real-time interactivity**: GWM Worlds and Avatars enable real-time, controllable simulation and conversation, differentiating from static video generation.
- **Full-stack AI platform**: From video generation (Gen-4.5) to world simulation (GWM-1) to production studios, Runway covers the entire creative-to-simulation pipeline.
- **Strong research culture**: Long-term research effort to build AI systems that understand visual world dynamics.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue advancing General World Models for universal simulation.
- Expand partnerships in entertainment (Lionsgate), robotics (NVIDIA), and architecture (KPF).
- Grow the platform’s adoption across industries requiring simulation, creative content, and autonomous agents.
- Scale the team globally (offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo) with remote flexibility.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people determined to change the world." Merges art and science – ideal for researchers, engineers, artists, and designers.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Global remote team; offices in 6 cities. Employees outside 10-mile commuting distance can expense co-working, internet, phone, and lunches (up to $250/month); within commuting distance get $50/month phone reimbursement.
- **Benefits**:
  - 100% medical, dental, vision coverage for US employees and dependents (plus mental health and One Medical membership).
  - Unlimited PTO (recommended min 15 days) + paid sabbatical at 3, 5, and 7 years.
  - 16 weeks fully paid parental leave (all parents) with gradual return-to-work plan.
  - 3% 401k match (US employees).
  - $600 annual wellness stipend; $600 annual learning stipend; $500 tech setup stipend.
  - Annual travel budget for in-person collaboration, conferences, and company events.
  - Quarterly community donation program.
- **Recognition**: Best Places to Work NYC (2022–2024), Inc. Best Workplaces (2023), Built In Inclusive Workplace (2022, 2023), Crain’s Best Companies Group.

## Sources
1. [runwayml.com](https://runwayml.com/)
2. [Runway Careers](https://runwayml.com/careers)
3. [Runway About](https://runwayml.com/about)
4. [CB Insights – Runway Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/runwayml)
5. [Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/runwayml)

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