Head of Legal / Deputy General Counsel

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $300k - $400k / year

⏰ Full Time

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⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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OpenClaw

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2026

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

OpenClaw is a non-profit, community-driven foundation that develops and protects open-source personal AI tools and agent frameworks. The organization positions itself as neutral and independent—no single company controls the project—and aims to make AI personal, approachable, and owned by individuals rather than rented from platforms. OpenClaw maintains open contributions and infrastructure (e. g. , ClawHub skills, Skill Cards, SkillSpector scanning) and collaborates with industry partners like NVIDIA to improve agent security and provenance. The Foundation’s mission is to keep models, platforms, and devices open and to enable personal AI that runs on users' hardware and respects user context and ownership.

📋 Description

• Build and lead the Foundation's legal function • Advise Foundation leadership and the board across intellectual property, open-source licensing, product security, commercial contracts, nonprofit governance, and international legal matters • Own IP strategy across the OpenClaw codebase, brand, and ecosystem, including copyright, licensing, trademark registration, usage policies, and enforcement • Develop contributor agreements, licensing frameworks, and guidelines for third-party integrations, derivative works, and commercial use • Advise on AI-agent legal and regulatory issues involving sensitive data, third-party systems, permissions, privacy, security, and autonomy • Partner with product and engineering leadership on legal frameworks for agent permissions, identity, authorization, data access, and user consent • Monitor AI governance, privacy, cybersecurity, data sovereignty, and related regulatory requirements • Draft, review, and negotiate partnerships, sponsorships, grants, vendor agreements, software licenses, and other commercial contracts • Build scalable contract templates and processes and advise on data rights, liability, indemnification, licensing, and technology risks • Advise leadership and the board on nonprofit governance, fiduciary duties, organizational structure, regulatory compliance, donations, grantmaking, and tax-exempt requirements • Advise on cross-border agreements, international IP protection, trademark strategy, privacy, data protection, sanctions, export controls, and local compliance • Serve as strategic advisor to the executive team and board • Build legal infrastructure, including policies, compliance processes, contract management, and outside counsel relationships • Monitor legal developments affecting open-source AI, agent identity, digital ownership, autonomous systems, and decentralized technology ecosystems

🎯 Requirements

• JD or equivalent qualifying legal degree and admission to practice in a relevant jurisdiction, preferably the US • Typically 7+ years of relevant legal experience in-house, at a law firm, or within a nonprofit or foundation • Strong expertise in IP, software licensing, trademarks, copyright, and technology transactions • Familiarity with open-source licensing, contributor frameworks, and software governance • Experience advising on AI regulation, product counsel, data governance, privacy, cybersecurity, or technology risk • Ability to navigate complex questions around data access, user permissions, agent autonomy, and responsibility across multi-party technology ecosystems • Experience with nonprofit law, foundation governance, or tax-exempt organizations • International legal experience, particularly cross-border contracts, privacy, or international IP protection, strongly preferred • Excellent business judgment and communication skills, with the ability to operate independently in a fast-moving environment • A builder mentality and willingness to create legal processes from the ground up