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Senior Vice President, Legal
Overview
About the Role
Cognita AI is hiring a Senior Vice President, Legal whose mandate covers owning legal strategy, governance and enterprise risk across its artificial intelligence business. Based in San Francisco, CA on a on-site basis, the role reports to the executive vice president or chief executive officer and carries a remit of National function leadership with budget ownership. Cognita AI is an applied AI company deploying models into enterprise workflows. The appointed leader inherits 150–500 people and will be measured on the strategic priorities set out below rather than activity.
The leadership mandate
Leadership Responsibilities
- Manage the external counsel panel and legal spend
- Advise the board on governance and fiduciary matters
- Lead in-house counsel, compliance and corporate secretarial teams
First 12 months
Strategic Priorities
Day to day
Key Responsibilities
- Own contracting standards, delegation of authority and governance policy
- Lead the legal workstream on M&A, financing and major commercial deals
- Oversee compliance programmes, training and regulatory engagement
- Manage disputes and litigation strategy to protect enterprise value
- Advise the executive committee on commercial, regulatory and litigation risk
Leadership profile
Qualifications
- Command of commercial contracting, governance and regulatory matters
- JD and admission to practise in a US jurisdiction
- Senior in-house legal leadership experience
- 14+ years, including 5+ leading leaders of progressive leadership experience
- Experience operating in the artificial intelligence sector or an adjacent regulated market
Track record
Leadership Experience
- Proven leadership of 150–500 people, directly and through other leaders
- Accountability for a budget or P&L consistent with National function leadership with budget ownership
- Experience presenting to executive committees, boards or investment committees
How success is measured
Key Performance Expectations
Nice to have
Preferred Qualifications
- Sector-specific regulatory experience
- M&A and financing transaction experience
What's offered
Benefits
Company Overview
Cognita AI is an applied AI company deploying models into enterprise workflows. This is demo content: the organisation, its results and its openings are illustrative examples used to demonstrate the HireAxis executive marketplace. The Cognita AI leadership team is structured around a small executive committee with clear P&L ownership, supported by functional heads across strategy, operations, finance, technology and people.
Additional Information
- Department: Legal
- Applications close February 14, 1970.
- DEMO CONTENT — this record was created for the HireAxis platform preview and is not a verified client mandate.
- Hiring process: recruiter conversation, hiring-manager interview, executive panel and final board or CEO meeting.
- Background, reference and, where relevant, regulatory checks are completed before any offer.
How to apply
Application Instructions
Submit your CV through HireAxis with a short note on the leadership scope you have owned. Shortlisted candidates meet a HireAxis executive consultant before any client introduction.
Why This Opportunity
You would join at the point where strategy turns into execution, with board attention and resources behind it. Leadership is deliberately lean: executives are expected to operate close to the work, publish clear priorities each quarter and hold their teams to measurable outcomes.
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